Chronological or Alphabetical or.........
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Topic: Chronological or Alphabetical or.........
Posted By: limeyrob
Subject: Chronological or Alphabetical or.........
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:28
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Given a collection of some 250 CDs how would you store them? Alphabetical makes them easier to find. Chronological gives you a better idea of what was around at certain eras, (some surprises there). Could just chuck 'em in any old way and take pot luck. How do you store yours? |
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Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:30
Given that I have over 2000 cd's, alphabetical is the ONLY way to go! 
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:30
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alphabetical by band within genres ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: ExquisiteCorpse
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:34
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What he said^ group them by year, then alphabetical ------------- No, her name is not Beatrice. Yes, it's true: Movon invented cancer. Josh and Peanut for President in '06! |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:34
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By band, alphabetically, then broken into chronological order. I've got upwards of 300 prog CDs now and about 500-600 rock, pop, blues, country, compiliations and such. If they weren't in alpha order, I'd never find what I'm lookin' for. I keep my prog/jazz/instrumental music seperate from the other stuff... my kids never put stuff back where they got it and they don't touch my prog collection, except for Pink Floyd, of course.
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I have piles and piles of MP3 discs that I need to go through and figure what can stay (because I haven't bought it legally) and what needs to go (since I now have a legal copy). Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:36
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2000 classical music CDs, alphabetical by composer (only operas separately). 1200 pop/rock CDs, alphabetical by artist/band. 150 new age/crossover CDs, alphabetical by artist/band. 200 jazz CDs, mainly sorted in instrimental versus vocal. 500 mandarin pop/rock CDs sorted by my wife. God knows what system.... |
Walker wrote:
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:41
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-->Genre ---->Band/Artists (alphabetically) ------->Album (by Year) ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:42
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I have probably over a thousand cd's,so I arrange mine alphabetically. -------------  |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:43
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I try to keep them together by Artist. Dosen't matter after that. Also, huge piles of CD's are also very common here. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:43
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Mine are stored in piles and boxes all over the place! I have absolutely no classification system whatsoever. It makes finding a CD Hell. But it's also fun to suddenly come across a CD I've not heard for ages. One of these years I'll have to get around to sorting them all out (who am I kidding?).
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 16:52
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Mine are sorted by emotional relationships. (Anyone seen "Hi-fidelity"? |
)Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 17:02
| Or you could do like that character from Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" and organizing them autobiographicly... |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 17:48
Hey you got the same system as me!
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.....really though I've got nowhere to put them. they're in boxes in wardrobes and cluttered around the stereos. Total chaos!Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 17:48
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I would organise them by colour and then smell. ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 20:53
Or by the label the album was released on and then by what the artist had for breakfast the morning it was recorded. |
Posted By: lucky seven
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:07
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Alphabetical VS Chronological ? Alphabetical - A trick of the tales from topographic ocean - 7.5/10 Chronological - Piper at the gates of delirium - 7.5/10 I think I'm gonna be sick  |
Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:10
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By catalog number. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:14
Very easy to find a given disc right away (for me), but if you look for my Brand X discs in among the stuff that contains the prog, you won't find them -- they're in the jazz section. As long as your filing system makes sense to YOU, and you can readily find any CD within seconds, you have an effective system. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Yes, that's how I do it, too, so Led Zeppelin, for example, come before Los Lobos in my pop/rock section, and LZ1 before LZ2, etc. The sections I use are: pop(ular)/rock (includes prog, thus I don't need to worry if a given artist is "prog" or not); jazz/fusion/new age/electronic/world (thus Tangerine Dream are in the same section that includes Miles Davis, Andreas Vollenweider, Brazilian music, & the Gipsy Kings -- I have fewer of those discs, so seperate sections are not needed; classical/baroque/medieval/opera; Celtic/folk/traditional; and a miscellaneous "catch-all" category that includes comedy and soundtracks.
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:15
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I have my collection Sorted Out by:
And if that wasn't enough I reorganize it out every 2 or 3 weeks so I can integrate new CDs that I have bought. Quite a monotonous task, really. ------------- 
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Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:29
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I started to build an Access database in order to classify my record collection, but I stopped when reached a hundred entries... ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 04:39
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I've just reordered my entire record collection using your suggestion...it works really well. The only thing is, what takes precedence: eggs or bacon? ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 04:45
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Alphabetical order. To avoid having to constantly shift them around my cd racks, once a month I sort them all out and put any new cd's out. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 05:15
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I've got 1.800 cd's and do store them alphabeticaly, easier to find and sort. You can also sort them in the order you buy them... |
Posted By: parrymason
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 06:21
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Alphabetically, then by year.
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 11:50
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My problem is space. I bought one of those 1,000 CD selves, but the damn thing is getting full and I keep having to move a major portions of my CDs to make room for new ones.
What kind of storage racks do you use and do you like it? |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 12:17
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Bands, artist by alphabet, and of course the albums by date, except for live albums, they go in the rear. Compilation albums go seperatly, also unofficial albums (compilations and bootlegs) are stored seperatly. I've started to make a CD database, including all relevant information. It's a lot of work, but it makes it easy to find what I'm looking for. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 12:27
sort them by color! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 12:31
I did that for a while, but stopped when there came more intermediate colours in my collection. I stored them face foreward for the best visual result.  ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 13:17
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I've now burnt all my CD's onto my hard disc. I have also completely filled my 20 gig MP3 player. I have a handful of golden oldies and any new discs (currently got loads) downstairs-the rest are in the attic with my LPs..... |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 14:11
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Thanks everyone. It's given me some ideas. I did think that it could be a specialist system known only to the chosen and use the ProgArchives score rating. I'm currently transferring my CDs onto a recently purchased HD walkman.
Now where was I......... |