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17-04-2013, 16:16
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Greetings, my fellow music lovers!
I'm interested in how you categorize your music (digital and/or physical copies).
Personally I only buy music online and categorize by genre. Sometimes confusing, but it seems to work with a little over 6GB of stuff.
What about you guys?
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How very much on point. You are a true pioneer, good sir. One who cares not for the chaos in the world and fights on in spite of the unoriginality of others, say when answering forum questions.
One can only wish to resemble your mighty self...
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In digital I take all the songs I really dig and pile them together and then after that I'll leave the rest in a by artist list. But all the ones I really dig are also put together in a format that contributes to my mood. My deep feeling stuff; Poets of the Fall and Death Cab types site side by side and then followed by the more emotionally charged Cute is What We Aim For and Hellogoodbye and then it slides into happy poppyness with Aqua, Toybox, etc. Physically I just randomly have them dispersed in a cd holder, and take the album covers out for decoration.
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If I LOVE the CD I will buy it and keep it forever!!!!!!!
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genre, and i'm not usually too specific.
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Here's my method to keep some organization:
In Vinyl:
Classical Music and Jazz in one section
Compilations in a section
Soundtracks their own section
12" Singles/ EPs 10 "singles /EPs their own section
7"singles in their own section (boxes actually - don't really use them too much)
Most of my vinyl collection is then in the main section in alphabetical order
Cassettes - the few left - are on shelves above my stereo in my basement
CDs:
Classical own section
Jazz own section
Soundtracks own section (Scores have a sub section)
Compilations own section
(every section after this is sorted in alphabetical order and within an artist's grouping those albums are in chronological order)
Ska & Reggae Section
Folk & World Section
Rock/Pop Section
Metal Section
Digital:
In Artist Folders with full albums
There are some folders of various singles- divided in groups alphabetically.
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I try and stack the CD's alphabetically but over time they just all get mixed up again. So nowadays I just don't bother anymore. Of course that also means it takes a lot longer to find anything specific these days. The only ones that are in their right place are the ones I don't want to listen to!!!
'The purpose of life is a life of purpose' - Athena Orchard.
Alphabetically.
Mostly it's by the name of the artist, and the secondary key is the name of the release. Progressive rock, meat-and-potatoes rock, folk, easy listening, electro-pop... they all get ordered this way. I find that easier than trying to decide exactly what genre something belongs to. The Clash are right next to Judy Collins. Opeth are next to Roy Orbison.
For classical works, it's name of composer. Sometimes there is more than one composer featured on the disc; for example it seems common practice to team up Debussy with Ravel or Faure, but there will normally be one composer whose work is the featured work on the disc, and that determines my ordering.
For soundtracks, it's the name of whatever the music is the soundtrack to. Some musicals or films have music by more than one composer, but I adopt the practice of ordering by name of the show even if the music is all by the one composer. For example, Neil Diamond's soundtrack to Jonathan Livingston Seagull is filed under 'J', but Neil Diamond's album "Tap Root Manuscript" is filed under 'D'.
My CDs are stored in several CD racks, the kind that have a stack of horizontal slot into which one CD fits in each slot, plus a bookcase that houses the rest. There are a number of CDs that come close to the start of the alphabet and hence should go in the racks but which for one reason or other won't fit in racks; they are too thick (especially double CDs) or too thin. Those CDs in just a slim cardboard case could be put in the rack, but they would look rather silly and would be taking up more space than necessary. Hence, items such as The Beach Boys' SMiLE Sessions and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's package go in the bookcase.along with the stuff from about P to Z, as do the albums by Ned Collette, which are all in simple thin cardboard sleeves rather than cases.
This scheme works pretty well but it's always possible to find pathological cases. Jethro Tull is the name of the band, hence it gets filed under J and not T. That is only because I happen to know that it's the band name and not the name of the artist (Jethro Tull was a real person, but not a musician). Conversely, Elton John is filed under J for John; even though it's a concocted name formed from the first names of two different people, he now uses "John" as though it were his surname. Alice Cooper would present a problem, if i owned any. Originally it was just a band name, but later it became the name officially adopted by the leader. I have also thought that if I owned the album "Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin" I would have real trouble knowing where to place it. Is it a Gershwin album, or a Brian Wilson album?
None of this matters a great deal if you have your own system that works for you and lets you find what you want with a minimum of searching. It might be an issue, though, if you were running a music store.
