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>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>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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