since i use mainly CD's, i categorize them in books that hold a hundred to a
couple of hundred CD's each so I have the following:
1/. African music including straight percussion from all over the world
2/. Latin/Jazz
3/. Drum&Bass, Breakbeat, Acid-Jazz
4/. Ambient/Chill stuff
5/. Current Heat - The latest stuff that i am currently really playing and
listening to, some of everything, kind of a pre-organizing book
6/. Asian/MiddleEastern/Arabic/Rai
7/. The older stuff that i still love including Rock, Soul, Funk, some
Blues
I also carry a bag with stuff that has not been categorized or is really new
and just being listened to. Also headphones, some vinyl, leads, agents of
fun etc.
Since I try to weed stuff out before it goes into the books, they remain
fairly permanent but i allow some space with people whose music i really
love so that i can keep that stuff together, 4Hero being a big for instance.
I keep all the compilations and mix CD's in their respective collections as
well, like ALL the Freezone discs
probably didn't help since everyone seems to have their own way of doing
this, i am real interested to see what other listees do!
leslie/The Power of Sound
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Rosales" <m.rosales@weserv.com.ph>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:11 PM
Subject: Slightly OT: Organizing Albums
> 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.
>
> How do you do yours? Inputs from DJs out there would probably be
valuable.
>
> Live well.
>
> /Mike
>
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