Curious: How do you organize your music?

Subject: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From:
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:07 PM

Hi all--

I spent some time last night putting LPs away in some new shelving...

*MY* LPs (and CDs for that matter) are organized in roughly alpha order. The classical, folk, bluegrass, rock, etc. are all jumbled in together, in order by the artist's last name or the name of the performing group, since I'm pretty sure I can usually remember *whose* music I'm looking for. There are some oddities--Steely Dan is under D for Dan, but Dire Straits is under D for Dire. Soundtracks are filed by film name. Compendia are under whatever seems most memorable (to me, though at my age, that's a shrinking target)

*REYNAUD's* LPs (the ones I was putting away) are (at his request) bunched by "type." He says he doesn't need them alphabetized. But I was most amused trying to figure out into what "type" of music I'd classify, for example, Tom Rush's "The Circle Game". I ended up with the following categories for Reynaud's records: Bluegrass, Country/Western/Southern Fried Rock, Acoustic (Tom Rush went here), Rock (including the Supremes, Beatles, Yes, and The Lovin' Spoonful!), Classical, Children's, Humor, Miscellaneous (for things I was at a total loss to classify) and Easy Listening (e.g. Pet Clark, Dean Martin, Harry Belafonte)

Heaven help me...Reynaud says he's sure he'll find whatever he's looking for somehow. It's nice to know he's no where near as anal as I am...I go nuts when I can't find something.

Anyone else have an organization scheme they're willing to share?

V

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:15 PM

My LPs and CDs (stored separately) are grouped by type of music, with no sub-sorting. Thus, folk, piano, classical guitar, chamber music, and "other". Without looking, I may have left out a category or two.

On my hard drive I have a directory called "songs"--surprise!--in which I keep song-word files, and any audio files of songs that are to be kept for more than a short time. The short-timers live on the desktop.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:20 PM

Its loosly organized except for the Folk Legacy stuff. Considering that I have almost every album they have produced, that stack makes up the biggest group.Otherwise, I try to group all folk together etc.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:22 PM

pretty simple -
stuff I keep at work, stuff I keep in the car ; stuff I keep at home (smallest catagory)

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:24 PM

I clump 'em together by artist name... but the most important distinction is between what I'm listening to right now, and what I'm not...

On the HD, my mp3s (Currently almost 3000) are organized by artist name, with sub-dirs for album title...

MD's are made as needed, and clutter up the smaller corners...

:-)

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:28 PM

Oh, an addition to my categories referred to above:

All my old 10-inch LPs, on whatever musical genre, are grouped together.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: dwditty
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:33 PM

I recommend you watch a movie called High Fidelity with John Cusak. Evidently, alpha is a very poor scheme for organizing your music.

dw

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 03:07 PM

Very simple!!!!!!!!!! "Don't mourn!!"---------And your HALF WAY there !!!---Joe Hill

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 05:57 PM

I'm a very organized person but no one else would ever figure out my system. I can't even define how it's done and sometimes I forget myself, but usually I can put my hands on what I want quickly. I use colour coding for data CDs I burn myself. Some music just seems to fit within certain categories - for me. In our household we usually have two copies of written documents because my husband files everything strictly alphabetically.
My address book has cross references because I rarely look up people by name, unless I know them well. eg. Morris Dancer from Queensland under M but also under his name - first and last. Possibly also under D for dancer. I'll always look under M first though.
I had a friend who put her books in groups of colours regardless of the author or subject. We don't do that but it works quite well. I always know the look of the books I consult frequently.
                                          Joyofbells

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:08 PM

LPs: Misc.; Banjo etc.; Blues/jazz; Folk coll.; Foreign; Politics; Hymns; Popular; Sea; Music hall; everything else alphabetical.
CDs: Alphabetical.
Cassettes: Alphabetical.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Mooh
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:18 PM

Alphabetically by the artist's name, Christmas, compilations and classical have their own sections, all else together. Rolling Stones under R, Simon Mayor under M, etc. Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones guitarist) is not under W or R but filed with The Faces, as would be The Small Faces if I had any, and these anomalies I keep track of by memory, hopefully. Likewise, Hilary James, and the Mandolinquents are filed with Mayor. Yardbirds don't however include Jeff Beck, he gets his own status under B, don't ask me why. By and large, alphabetically.

LPs are in liquor boxes in the cellar, in order. Cassettes are in order in shoeboxes cause I've run out of shelf footage. Books are by subject, mostly.

My marbles, however, are all over the floor and I can't seem to pick them all up.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:19 PM

under teh filing system invented by the great Inian Mathematician:

Mr. Ran Dom Heap

Robin

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: NicoleC
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:25 PM

Alphabetical by artist's last name or group name -- genres are too fuzzy for accurate organization. Classical is filed by composer name, not performer, but "classical" is a pretty easy genre to pinpoint.

Compilations are more or less filed by genre and name at the end of the row, but I don't have many of those.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Ed.
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:36 PM

Pretty much as NicoleC and Vixen do. For artists that I've got a lot of recordings of, I file them in date order (of the release).

I've had people criticise me for this. Apparently I'm a 'sad bastard' or 'anally retentive' I ignore them.

I can find what I want quickly. They can't...

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:44 PM

By genre -- Folk together, but broken down by trad, non-trad, popular (Judy Collins, Joan Baez, PP&M, Oscar Brand, yeah, Dylan, too) blues, etc. Non-trad male and female singers, groups. Bluegrass.

Jazz, classical, rock (yeah, mostly '50s, '60s), off the wall stuff, ethnic (except in folk), show tunes, soundtracks. Everything from Mikis Theodorakis and Artie Barsamian to Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima to The Watersons and High Level Ranters.

I probably have the largest collection of kazoo recordings in the state of New Hampshire. (Maybe the ONLY collection of kazoo music in the state of New Hampshre.) African bagpipes . . . Armenian jazz . . . Benny Goodman.

My taste is more eclectic than Curmudgeon's. I'm currently in the process of de-accessioning LPs -- non trad folk. Need to also de-accession 45s. Cubic Footage! Cubic Footage! (oh, yeah, and conversion to small green pieces of paper with dead presidents, etc. on them.)

A lot of the important LPs have been converted to cassette or CD, but certainly not everything.

I'm still trying to make sense of it all.

Linn (who still has a good turntable and, believe it or not, access to playing 78s and Edison discs)

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:50 PM

LP's in a sideways wooden box...they used to be Alpha by artist....not anymore. Tapes, in tape/slot box, Irish on the left, Classical on the right. CDs'..in a pile....

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: NicoleC
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 07:05 PM

For artists that I've got a lot of recordings of, I file them in date order (of the release).

Oh yeah, that too. Guess I'm as bad as you, Ed ;)

Speaking of organizing, I got a cool 2-tier bookshelf insert from IKEA that makes a CD rack. No expensive racks and your CDs stay all lined up, you just throw it between two shelves.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: dwditty
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 08:56 PM

Ok, I will share my secret....Random...CD's, DVD's, Tapes, all jumbled together in whatever order they happen to fall when I got around to putting them all on the shelf. Shelf. Heck no...shelves. I have shelves in my office/music room, shelves in the den upstairs, even a small one in the garage next to my car. Some do ask why I do this. The reason is that I stumble across more music that I would have forgotten about than if I could just think of something and go right to the spot. In fact, very often I wind up playing something I hadn't intended..the target CD staying in its proper place, wherever the hell that is.

dw

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: karen k
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 12:12 AM

I agree with Mr. Ran Dom Heap. I no sooner get stuff organized and then I take something out to listen to and somehow it never finds its way back to the right place. Therefore, I've stopped trying. Books are kind of the same way but I'm not as bad with them. If anyone has a magic solution for getting them back where they belong after they have been used I sure like to know it.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 12:41 AM

I use genres myself. CDs I'm listening to in one pile, CDs I'm not in another.

Don

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 02:19 AM

My recordings are organized in accordance with a system developed by Werther Fuggizit.

I also have a large number of unlabeled home-recorded cassette tapes that are arranged using a similar system developed by Watt D. Fuggizit.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: DMcG
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 04:52 AM

Music cassettes from student days have a system all of their own. As I was typically impoverished, I could not (generally) afford to buy more cassettes than necessary. As a result, although you will often find the artist on the 'A' side has no connection with that on the 'B'. The tapes are filed based on the 'A' side, so I'm the only person who stands a chance of finding a 'B' side without an exhaustive search.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: treewind
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 05:04 AM

Musical style. Everyone has different boundaries of couse. I have a large "Bulgarian" section for example. Some others are jazz, bles, squeezeboxes, trad singers/duos and home-made (CDR's of special events, demos etc)

Where something is borderline I try to put the two categories next to each other and put the bordeline one in between. Sometimes there seems to be a natural spectrum and they all sort into some kind of order. I *know* someone else's ordering would be different.

Mary's just reorganised the whole wall of CDs, so I'm not sure how much of the above applies now....

Sorting by artist wouldn't work for many of mine, which are collections by different artists.

Anahata

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Kim C
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 11:40 AM

Like Bruce, Mister and I use the Fuggizit systems.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 12:13 PM

Folk music by countries. Classics by aera, from Renaissance to Twelve-Tone, in the aera by name. For marches (mostly collections) I have an Excel list with: Name, composer, type (Inf., Cav. &c.), and use (Present Arms, Parade, Quickstep) and the regiments name and number. All files are filtered, so with some clicks I find what I need. I consider to use this system with other genres, too, when I forget what I have there.
I found this system very useful (I'm a librarian). I consider to use it for my vast collection of folksongs, which is organized by contry and themes. But I still know where every songbook I own is placed, so I postpone this tedious work, since I have to do it all day in my office.

Wilfried

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: BB
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 01:39 PM

Folk CDs, alphabetically by artist/group name, or if various artists, by CD title; classical CDs by composer (I have virtually none that are 'collections'); 'other' CDs by artist.

Tapes & LPs similarly, although there is a problem with some old tapes that have different artists on the A & B sides. Eventually they'll all get transferred to CD which will make life a hell of a lot easier!

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 02:13 PM

I used to do it by types(this is LP's)..Celtic, Fiddle, Bands, etc...but categories are SO slippery and amorphous. Does Celtic need to be broken down by Scots, Irish.etc? And does trad. need to be separate from modern within THAT?....do fiddle players need 12 categories, or 17, and are left-handed ones a special list?....you see?

So, a few years ago I switched to Alpha by artist, except for compilations and collections, which have their own area at the end. And, like Kendall, Folk-Legacy has it's own easily locatable section.

recent stuff..(that is, CDs, are in piles near any of 3-4 CD players)
For CDs and MP3s and OggVorbis, etc, I use the database in dbPowerAmp's "My music collection" (free), which allows you to catagorize stuff in any way you choose. This allows me to find WHAT songs I want to hear quickly. Finding the CD in the pile is another story!

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Bearheart
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 05:46 PM

I assumed when I saw the thread that you meant the written down stuff (sheet music, songs). I have a (Celtic mostly)song book which I have stored on a dic and update from time to time, which gets printed and bound at the copy shop. I am very anal about it. Songs are catagorized in sections, by theme(happy love, ironical/comical love, immigration, nature, social comment, seasonal--as in harvest songs carols etc--Robert Burns, and so on).

I am less organized with music. I don't play my LPs much anymore but can't bear to get rid of them. My collection of CDs is fairly small. Tapes I have more of since I like to make compilations for listening to while in the car, and I have stuff from old Thistle and Shamrock programs etc. Since I don't have a storage unit big enough for every thing (CDs), Celtic and Scandinavian goes one place, other ethinic another, New Age and spiritual another, and classical still another. The classical is mostly my husband Crow's music, and is totally unorganized (and he's a Sun/Moon in Virgo-- go figure). I don't attempt to organize by title or musician since I have so few and I know my favorites, which are easily recognized. The same is mostly true of tapes. I also have to say that since I tend to listen to the same thing in cycles, the current favorites are usually not in the storage unit but on a shelf near the player. I try not to keep more than 5 out at a time...

Bekki

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 07:16 PM

For creativity, I really like DonMeixner's system:
CDs I'm listening to in one pile, CDs I'm not in another.

But it really seems to depend on how many records (a geneeric term) one has, the storage area one happens to be using and the significant interest(s) one has and ones personal discrimination (eg, do you want to include "folk blues" with 'folk' or separately with 'blues.') It's very interesting that so many people do have some system. Point being you have to be abe to find the record AND track you're seeking. All systems work as long as you can find that cut.

FWIW, I've gone to the extreme of cataloging every track on every "folk" medium. Without that, it wouldn't matter where the records were. When I look, I happen to be looking for songs, not artists or genres.

LPs: Blues; Jazz; Folk; Classical; Classical I like (ends with Mozart); Misc. 'Folk' is about 3 times all else combined. It's also 100% of tapes & CDs.
CDs & Cassettes mixed: Alphabetical by artist; compilations at the end by title.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 09:39 PM

Space being at a premium 'round here, I've gotten rid of 90% of my jewel boxes in favor of thin plastic sleeves that have room for the CD, the booklet and as much of the graphics as I want to bother transfering. I keep 'em in a square box all lined up like the old record stores brousing bins. Those CDs are in alphabetical order.

Did the same for cassettes. To store the loose cassettes, I got VERY CHEAP plastic tool box type of things (plastic) that K-mart used to carry. Those would hold 30 cassettes each. I'd number each cassette and kept the info for each on a 3x5 file card. Each individual tool box got a letter of the alphabet designation i.e. A-B-C-D- etc. I'm getting away from cassettes now--as are we all. BUT I just finished cataloguing TOOL BOX HH )That's "Tool Box DOUBLE--H". (That's 32 tool boxes--each one with 30 cassettes inside right now.)

When On the road, I'd just grab a box of casswttes on my way out the door. Did that for many years. (There were no CDs then--.)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: SueB
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 04:26 AM

Male artists follow female, mostly. (Same way I organize my books -female authors then male.) Some exceptions - Miriam Makeba belongs in 'music from Africa' section, rather than next to Erin McKeown or Alison Krauss. Female jazz and blues artists are before male jazz and blues artists, but jazz and blues are mostly together. Music from my teen years is mostly together, but Aretha and Janis come before James Taylor and Billy Joel (yes, I still have some Billy Joel) - B52's and Emerson, Lake and Palmer belong in that section, but B52's come before ELP, because ELP is all male. Now that I look at my collection, many categories don't have enough entries to be considered a subset - so Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Pizzicato 5, and Kodo drumming CDs are clumped together with the Buena Vista Social Club and Jean Luc Ponty and Louis Prima because I don't have enough music by Japanese artists to warrant a 'music from Japan' section, so they get thrown in the 'eclectic corner'. New Year's resolution - acquire lots more music.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: cetmst
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:38 AM

About 43,000 song and composition titles on 3x5 file cards cross-referenced to numbered sources, A - 10" LPs, B-78s, C-books, D-books abstracted from library sources, E-some category I had in mind once but have forgotten, F-12" LPs, G- cassettes, H-8 tracks, J-titles listed on recordings I don't have, K-CDs, L-Christmas cassettes. Examples 'Solidarity Forever' B044, Union Records by Jefferson Singers, C036, Fowke and Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, C137, Helga Sandburg, Sweet Music and several other books, D010, Whitman, Songs That Changed the World, F007, Talking Union, Almanac Singers, G033, a cassette of miscellaneous songs transcribed from radio broadcasts, J150, Joe Glazer, Songs of Work and Freedom, K588, Ten Years Strong, Solidarity Choir.
In addition I've indexed my wife's collection of choral music gathered over 60 years of solo and choir singing but still have to do our classical music collection. Probably a bit cumbersome and time- and space-consuming but I can usually find a song in seconds. Some year I may get it on the computer.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:34 AM

My very few LPs are arranged alphabeticaly in a crate in the bottom of a cupboard. Somehow my only EP is still sitting on top of the casette storage boxes, it's been there for years, & I dunno why.

I have over 500 CDs. I already had 6 when I was forced to buy a CD player in 1997 as my favourite Joan Baez tape, copied off a scratchy record over 20 years before had become unplayable. Strange, all I did was play it continually for 20 years, why did it die? So I bought a 3-in-one & 5 CDs cos they didn't have the Joan Baez I wanted & why wait a week? I am a compulsive buyer of CDs

MY CDs are spread over the floor & sometime soon most of them will be on shelves on the wall. I won't change the arrangement, I'll just neaten the collection. Arrangement is A-Z by surname/group name/title.

The 120 capacity turntable thingy will stay, it has Oz artists/groups. All other folk (including the rest of the Oz performers) be on the new shelves.

I also have a few mini-collections all arranged A-Z by artist or title -
a small Classical collection
a larger jazz collection, most of them - 16 CDs -Django Reinhardt recordings)
a nostalgia/music hall collection
almost everything the Moody Blues put out (arranged by date of release)
a misc. set - several children's titles, a new age? album that defies classification (several new age albums of music for meditation are filed with classical, but this the new age version of a folk or rock opera)
a few 60's & 70's rock

My casette collection is similar - all A-Z & most are folk, & I have a few new age, jazz & nostalgia

sandra

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:30 PM

At the dawn of time there 20 or 30 miscellaneous recordings. Sorting them was unnecessary. As the number grew, categories were invented as it became necessary. The categories depended on what was there, of course. It's not a major archive with 20,000 items. I just do what's necessary, what seems to work.For the 40 feet of lp's and 75 feet of cd's I have, it works fine.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: mg
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 09:34 PM

on the floor and off the floor...mg

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 10:44 PM

As a librarian -- and knowing cataloging and classification -- I have had to research several schemes over the years. There's straight Dewey, Library of Congress, Colon Classification, Cutter's Expansive Classification, and the old ANSCR system (Alpha-Numeric System for the Classification of Recordings). Of these, I've found Dewey to the the most flexible, mostly because ANSCR has never to my knowledge been updated.

Therefore, my own recordings are pretty much kept together as recordings. Yup, they are recordings all right. And I sort 'em by LPs, CDs, cassettes, and R2R tapes.

(My wife, a mathematician, librarian, computerist, and lawyer, is far more anal-retentive and insists upon arranging things by genre and artist. I'll probably have to make some sort of catalog the recordings someday; I'll probably use Quattro Pro, mostly because I think it's more powerful than Excel. Or I may use something like MySQL. I dunno; I'll wait until the time comes.)

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: karen k
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:58 PM

Art, I like your system, especially for cd's. Have to give that serious consideration. I'd then have more room for books! I'm competing with Sandy Paton to see who will have more (I don't stand a chance!!!!!)

mary garvey - your system is kind of where I'm at partially!

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 12:14 AM

I just put them in a pile.

When I look for something, I usually discover something else I've been missing.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: GUEST,laughoutloud
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 12:17 AM

Sometimes I like choosing a cd with my eyes shut, so I get a surprise.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Burke
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 04:01 PM

I ran out of space so I bought a binder with CD storage sheets. I put the card in one slot & the CD next to it. I think I like Art's idea better, interfiling will be easier and the binder is pretty bulky. The first sheets I bought may have damaged some of my CD's. I'm now careful to check the material the sheets are made of.

The new ones are in piles. I need to put them in the binder or on my already full shelves.

I group by genre. Once I have half a dozen of whatever I think of as a genre I'll subdivide. Sometimes I 'reclassify' because of space needs. Some of my folk categories are non-english with Eastern-Europe separated out; Blues; American compilations; Traditional American (by performer); British Isles; Louisiana (Cajun mostly); contemporary (my very few rock are here as well). Christmas is its own section regardless of genre. Sacred Harp is divided between convention recordings & recorded groups doing Sacred Harp/early American hymns.

There's no ideal. It certianly depends on what your collection is, why you bought a recording, and how you think about it. There will always be some stuff that fits 2 or 3 categories & other that is simply misc.

I've sometimes thought I should just shelve in random order, but always reshelve at one end. Gradually the unused music will migrate to the other end.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 06:32 PM

when I saw this thread I thought 'great I might get some tips'. Get out of it ... my dad, before he had his recent stroke was immaculate in filing things, records tapes, tools etc. My wife was always getting onto me about being tidier. Damn it he has trouble walking and talking but he still is tidy, me I'm more a 'file on top of the one below type of a guy' Even with my files on my pc i cant get that right but it's great when you look and find something. have you ever seen Whispering Bob or Paul Gambocini being interviewed with loads of cd's & lps behind them ...I'd love it if they were all jumbled up..but somehow I don't think so.
regards Ritchie 'the rain man'

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Lowkey
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 01:54 PM

Current favourite top of the heap. Can't find the bottom of the heap.

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 02:03 PM

You only have one heap?? We keep shoes in our CD rack so what hope do we have!

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: mooman
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 02:09 PM

By type (many categories) then by artist (not necessarily alphabetical...probably the most played ones the most handy)

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Curious: How do you organize your music?
From: leprechaun
Date: 03 Jan 04 - 02:50 PM

Albums are arranged alphabetically in a box in the attic because the turntable got extinct. Cassettes are in the truck because it doesn't have a CD player. The other cassettes are under the tape deck in the living room, but only some of them are in their original plastic box. CD's are behind them on the same shelf, or squeezed beside the DVD player, or in the van, either in the center console or in the cheap vinyl CD holder with the fall-out-twist-sideways plastic sleeves, or in the CD rack beside the stereo in the living room or the ones my daughter likes might be in her car, or on her desk or on her floor or the ones my son likes might be in his truck or at his house or at his friends' house but there are a few right here in the shelf of my computer desk, but oh damn it's just the empty case.