Fwd: Slightly OT: Organizing Albums

From: Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 12:22:30 CEST

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    >From: "Mike Rosales"
    > <m.rosales@weserv.com.ph>
    >Date: 22 Aug 2001 12:11:00 +0800
    >Subject: Slightly OT: Organizing Albums
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    >Ok, here it goes...
    >
    >I was wondering how you organize your collection (CDs, vinyls, DATs, acetates,
    >MP3s, what have you).
    >
    >I usually arrange mine according to date of purchase (which is at
    >times, silly),
    >and if there's a new album from, say, 4Hero, I'd put it together
    >with all their
    >previous albums/EPs, so that it would be in the same area. However, as the
    >collection grows, I find it a bit hard to track down a particular album/track,
    >especially if you move an album from one spot to another quite frequently.
    >
    >A friend suggested that I arrange this according to genre, but I
    >dunno where to
    >start, and knowing that AJ (or AJ-related music) has a thousand and one names,
    >I'd probably get lost along the way.

    Albums are on the bottom shelves (amazing rack from Billy Bags
    http://www.billybags.com, choped to two shelves with my decks on
    top), in haphazard alphabetical order, what to do with acronyms, and
    bands with leader names in them (i.e. James Taylor Quartet is J or
    T?, Charlie Hunter Duo/Trio/Quartet, etc.) Top shelves are singles
    and some EPs by genre and roughly alphabetized therein. Left to
    right: d'n'b, hip-hop, breaks, big-beat/nu-skool, vocal stuff (i.e.
    trip-hop), then a last big category of Acid
    Jazz/downtempo/techno/leftfield etc., then some box sets, and lastly
    my Mo'Wax/Soulsides/Quannum collection (along with three ATA cases
    with records for DJ stuff, a crate, a record bag, and my Dads in
    boxes these being all over the room.) CDs are in albums, and
    Singles/EPs by rough alphabetical order in my Billy Bags wall secured
    (earthquake country) rack, and in piles on my desk. And DATs just
    stacked wherever.

    erik g

    or do as one Classical collector I read about: by the birthdate of
    the composer (it took Alan Greenspan to figure it out.)



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