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Topic: Ways to Organize CD's
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Andrew the Weasel
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posted August 19, 2001 08:28 PM
  
Admit it. You missed me.
Alphabetically. The way everyone in the known universe organizes its CD's, except for a) people resembling the characters in High Fidelity, and b) people who have seen High Fidelity and dream that they could be as cool as Barry. It just makes sense: If you want to listen to the Clash, you look where all your Clash is, and make a selection. The down side his having to move all your stuff down a peg when you buy a new Clash CD. That's annoying. B
Chronologically. Handy for those of us who like our 80's music quarantined as it should be, otherwise just a way of saying "I'm too hip to organize alphabetically, like, man..." And when you buy London Calling you still have to move everything after 1979 down so you can fit it in properly. So you don't really gain anything. C+ By Genre. Oh, come on. Like you're really going to mistake Wyclef Jean and the John Spencer Blues Explosion. This is strictly for y'all who worry about having an excess of Music by White Guys. D Autobiographically. Just in case you had any doubt that this list owes it's conception to the image of John Cusack and his rattily cool sweaters, I'll rate this "No fucking way" method too. At least, I'll try to. I couldn't do it, cause I couldn't remember the order in which I bought my stuff, let alone what I was feeling at the time. I suppose it might say something about my evolution as a music fan, but somehow I doubt that will melt the ladies hearts. C- Critically. This could go either way. A truly anal-critical survey of your music selection to put the "best" at one end and the "worst" at the other, that would be a truly DMV-ian waste of time. But just putting what you happen to like now at the top and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones album you got in a fit of ska flirtation at the bottom (or in a box under your bed, like I do), well, that might have advantages, especially in the "integrating your new purchases" department. On the other hand, it's not really organizing, is it? B- ------------------
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Stehvelo
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posted August 19, 2001 11:04 PM
Entropically The ones which get played most work their way to the front of the row/the top of the pile whereas the others get lost/used as coasters/traded in at Black&White records in Hakaniemi for cash C+ [This message has been edited by Stehvelo (edited August 19, 2001).] IP: Logged |
Clickie
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posted August 19, 2001 11:48 PM
I did miss you, Andrew the Weasel.But I agree with Stehvelo's method, which we could also just call the "most-recently-used" method. It sounds more organized, and then we could start drawing analogies with computer caches. As a computer geek, I appreciate that. It's also just a good way of organizing CDs, as the ones you listen to most are easiest to find, and it's relatively self-organizing. No effort involved. A- IP: Logged |
Arwon
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posted August 20, 2001 12:46 AM
Randomly Woo! Random good! a problem arises when you want a specific CD, but who cares. It's so... random. It makes me feel ALIVE! A------------------
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Treasure
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posted August 20, 2001 01:58 AM
Arwon, for true randomness try putting the cds back in the wrong cases! Then you really don't know what you're going to get. But make sure you've removed anything bought drunk/as a dare first, or you might end up listening to Britney.Me? Alphabetically, with a sub-division of date order within an artist's space, but with separate sectors for albums, singles, and freebies. Anal, moi? ------------------
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Hallam
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posted August 20, 2001 03:00 AM
I do it alphabetically, with a separate area for classical and opera.
It goes:
Classical and opera A-Z by composer
Folk and world compilations by various artists
Everything else A-Z by artist
Everything else compilations by various artists.One of my good friends at college organised his by spine colour. His shelf went from white at one end through the rainbow to black at the other. IP: Logged |
Waxwings
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posted August 20, 2001 07:09 AM
Hmm.
I'm a freak. I organize mine by artist, and then within the artist, by year.
So like each artist has their group, and then in their group, its done by year.For a truly truly random way of organizing, try takin all the cds out of the cases and mixing them with blank and/or burned cd and just place them in piles around the room. I call this the "older brother method".
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Sarcasma
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posted August 20, 2001 07:52 AM
My CD categories, just because you asked (oh hush):In evil slotted CD tower (god I hate the slotted thing, because of all the move-one-down-ness previously discussed in this space) we have:
Pop, by artist (anyone at all from the rock/classic rock/pop/disco/whathave you genres. I don't have enough to subcategorize, it would be madness. There'd be, like, one in each category, a pile of ABBA, and a pile of Rush. So wrong.) Soundtracks, movie, by title (because even though there are only about 3 of them, they just don't work as By Artist, so.) World Music, by title (because I'm cheap and have only compilation discs, and refuse to put them all under "Byrne, David") Classical Vocal, by artist (when it's all one person but many composers) Classical Vocal, by composer (when it's all one composer, regardless of # of performers; sometimes I get confused and move all the single artist discs back into By Artist. Because I can.) Crossover/Musical Theatre/Jazz Vocal, by artist (sometimes I delete this category because it annoys me having Dawn Upshaw all over the damn place. Then I put it back because it annoys me having Mandy Patinkin so near Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. I have a feeling they fight when I'm out of the room.) Flute, by artist (as I play less and less I cease to care that Rampal's all-Mozart discs belong in Classical By Composer, so they're here now. All Flute All The Time. Easy.) Classical, by composer Choral, by group (another absorbable category, which occasionally gets eaten by Classical By Composer. Especially these days.) Random (at this point you're probably asking yourself "How on EARTH could this person POSSIBLY need a goddam RANDOM category? Pete almighty..." but let me tell you, I do. There's a CD in here called Fabulous Ballroom which is just what it sounds like and also a Verve collection of random jazz artists. They'd each need their own category, and that's just not allowed.) In much-beloved shelvey unit originally intended for videotapes, but serving its purpose nicely and easy to reorganize unlike its evil slotted counterpart: Operas, by composer Operettas, by composer (an occasionally crisis-of-the-faith-causing category due to items like the Nicolai Merry Wives Of Windsor which Germans call an opera and Brits call an operetta and Americans can't decide upon) Musicals, by title (causes mini-crises because of the fact that their presence in this tower really makes logical their organization by composer, but they're easier for me to find this way. This category lurks at the bottom of the unit and glowers at me, saying "You. Lazy. Stoopid. Ha.") And now you know... the rest... of the story. Why are you all backing away like that? Edited... for TRUTH [This message has been edited by Sarcasma (edited August 20, 2001).] IP: Logged |
RedTwo
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posted August 20, 2001 09:08 AM
Add another person to the Alphabetically by Artist/Artist by Release Year column, Clickie! (You are doing a graph, right?  ) The "various artists" things get their own category, by title, and classical is segregated as well, by composer. Opera is within classical, also by composer. This is a system I adopted after my time spent as an Assistant Manager of a Sam Goody's.The only difficulty I have is when we get to groups that don't obey standard naming, like Jesus Jones or George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Jesus Jones goes under Janet Jackson and above Jewel, not under Jewel and before Journey, because it's not a person's name, it's the band's name. Thorogood goes between Tannahill Weavers and U2, not between Peter Gabriel and Hamish & Lee. Why is this a "difficulty"? Because my wife doesn't get it. She owns about 8 CDs out of the whole collection (over 200) and can't find them half the time. I'm thinking of getting jewel cases of a different color just to make it easier on her. ------------------
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Acsumama
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posted August 20, 2001 09:39 AM
I have my favorite 40 CDs in the CD rack, alphabetized by artist. The rest of them go ramdomly in a box behind the rack, which is also where I keep my tapes.IP: Logged |
Clickie
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posted August 20, 2001 02:49 PM
I knew someone who really did have a tall stack of 100+ CDs in the middle of his floor, and that was his organizational method. He used the most-recently-used method of CD organization. Giant stacks lend themselves well to this method.I'll wait for more plot points before I even consider graphing this.  IP: Logged |
Brunswik Mcbutterpants
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posted August 20, 2001 03:00 PM
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Algeh
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posted August 20, 2001 03:14 PM
Right now, I'm using the "25 cds in my dad's cd changer so everything else is all out of order" method. Usually, however I go by a slightly more reasonable method. First, I sort into 2 catergories: top drawer and bottom drawer. The bottom drawer ones consist mostly of things I don't much care for, but which get stuck in my head and would drive me nuts if I couldnt play to get unstuck sometimes. Also random stuff I bought on various whims or when I was in middle/high school. These go in a big cd wallet in alphabetical order by artist or, for compilations, title. Top drawer is broken in subsets as follows:
-Gordon Lightfoot, then in release date order
-TMBG, also in release date order
-Filk, alphabetical by title (because I have yet to figure out if I should classify by lyric writer, composer or performer, and differnet albums blend different combinations of the above.)
-Billboard Top Hits, by year
-Classical, by most-recently-listened-to
-Other stuff, by most-recently-listened-to
I create other catergories whenever I notice about 5 things that go together. The Gordon Lightfoot section is the largest, I think.
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Mara's Revenge
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posted August 20, 2001 03:28 PM
The way Treasure does; alphabetical by artist, but by release date within the artist. That gets weird when you have best-of albums (I never get best-ofs except when it's something like Spanky And Our Gang where they don't sell the albums anymore), but I tend not to care.Even worse than the slotted tower is the binder. Going back and forth between places is made easier, but reorganization is hell. I have a seperate binder for my burned/copied cds which are arranged as such:
Hitchhiker's Guide radio dramas, 1-12
Beatles anthologies, 1-6
Compolation MP3 cds, 1-6
Random copied albums Yay. ------------------
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Bennyboy
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posted August 20, 2001 05:55 PM
Best of go at the bottom. My reasoning is that they aren't REAL releases, and were just released to make some drug money for said band.------------------
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Andrew the Weasel
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posted August 22, 2001 04:43 PM
I deserve great abuse.
I use the chronological method. Everything from Vivaldi to the Deftones is all mixed together, by year.
Except soundtracks.
It's really quite silly.
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Dice Bowl
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posted September 02, 2001 03:40 PM
What do you call it when you just buy albums, rip them onto MP3 and then sell them to a used record store? Oh! I know! You call it the CRIMINAL method! I give it an A+. Hah.------------------
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Y2Karen
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posted September 09, 2001 05:43 PM
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One of my good friends at college organised his by spine colour. His shelf went from white at one end through the rainbow to black at the other.
I did that, too. I liked it, and I'm considering doing it again because just this weekend, I put all the CDs that had been strewn around my bedroom into their holder in the living room. In college when I didn't have a CD holder, I stacked them on the floor like Clickie's someone-she-knew. If you stack them two feet high against the wall, they don't tip over when you try to pull one out from the bottom. Floor: B
Color: A
A-Z: A
Random: B
Personal chronology: C
C is for Criminal Instead of starting a tangent here, I thought I'd start a poll in MNSBS ... how many CDs are too many? ... see ya there [This message has been edited by Y2Karen (edited September 09, 2001).] IP: Logged | |
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