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How do you organise your CD collection?


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How do you organise your CD collection?  

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    • All alphabetical
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    • By composer, then alphabetical
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    • By composer, then chronological
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    • Chronological
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    • "Organise?"
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Well, how? :)

At the moment - today - mine are ordered alphabetically by compoer's surname, and then in chronological order with compilations at the end of each composer's series.

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Chronological, however by the dates I got them, not necessarily by their actual release dates.

Which means for the past 15 years it's pretty close to the original order, to the year.

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I decided to try something a little different and started grouping them by labels for FSM, Varese CD Club, Varese regular, Intrada, and Prometheus. Then I started grouping them by subject matter; Star Wars, Star Trek, Godzilla, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Cop themes, supernatural, medival, thrillers, cartoons, comedies etc.

Just something different, plus now I can see how my collection is dominated by FSM & Varese.

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Film title. Franchises are together chronologically. The James Bond series comes first (under "007").

There's two groups of CDs on my desk now, because my CD rack is full. The second group contains bootlegs and copies, and new purchases also go there. There's a seperate group for bootlegs and original CDs within that stack.

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I think right now it goes:

Williams, alphabetized by title

Other composers, by last name, each composer by title

Trek scores, chronological

Bond scores, chronological

Other CDs, ordered by artist

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There was a time when I used to pile all my CDs into a shelf in no order.

I could never find what I was looking for.

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I think right now it goes:

Williams, alphabetized by title

Other composers, by last name, each composer by title

Trek scores, chronological

Bond scores, chronological

Other CDs, ordered by artist

Mine's pretty much the same:

Williams, alphabetical by title (but series kept together, ie Raiders under Indy, SW in order I-VI)

Other composers film scores, by title

Video game music, by title

TV, comedy, and other, by title

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For a long time I had an A, B and C section.

I would pick the CD up first in each pile and put it back at the end after I've listened to it. My favorites were in the A, good album in the B's and some more rare CD's in the last section. For each C album, there would be two B's and 4 A's that would be played (I normally go to work with 7 albums that I play during the day). Albums could go up and down a section but only after it went down in the pile again.

I really liked the method, that way I would never "forget" a CD, and my favorites were still played in larger numbers. Often when you have large (500+) collections you always forget some CD's that aren't played for say 3 years.

Well I think I explained that a little bizarrely... but it worked very well!!!!!!

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Ymenard: what has changed and why?

I have several categories.

- Goldsmith, Williams, Broughton, Elfman, Poledouris, Horner, Howard, Moross, ...

- genres (all composer, ie with anything related by Goldsmith, ...): Western, Action, Horror, ...

- Disney, Animated Features

- Favorite scores by various composers

Since everything isn't stored in one single place / cabinet / case, more categorizing is necessary:

- "Favorite ones" case (favorite Goldsmith, Williams, Broughton, Disney, other)

- "Favorite Western, Action, Horror, Sea, Horner" case

- more recent CDs

Then we could discuss the organization of mp3 copies.

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Yeah it's changed to simple Composer's name / Date of release, because I wanted some change, to see if I could hear my collection in a different way, with another approach.

But the A/B/C piles was a neat idea. It seems complicated but it's really not, I suggest ya'll try it someday :) It's fun to pick up a CD and you see what's next in the pile.

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