My shelver are organized the following way:
1. Cardboard cases
2. Box sets
3. Envelopes (not white ones)
4. CDs that originally came in white envelopes, now in folder cases
5. CDs in boxes
5.1. Borrowed CDs
5.2. My CDs
a) In Spanish and Portuguese
b) Acid Jazz to Downtempo
c) World Music
d) Hip hop
e) Rest of electronic
f) Classical
g) Other Compilations
g) Female singers
h) Other College Rock
i) Other Rock in English
j) Other rock in other languages that English, Spanish or
Portuguese
6. Vynil
6.1 45s
6.2 12" singles
6.3 Albums
a) In Spanish
b) The rest!
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Leslie N. Shill wrote:
> 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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