SAD QUESTION: How do you categorise your records?

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Blame Bitchcakes for this one. Honest.

― Tom, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eh.. alphabetical.. :)

Ludo

― Ludo, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An inflexible scientific formula based on colour scheme, aesthetic appeal of sleeve, whim & perverse stylistic juxtaposition. with embarrassing ones at the back.

― cw, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great article, that. Alphabetically by person/group. I used to do it chronologically by country. I was insane.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't. Which means I waste a large proportion of my life wading through huge piles of vinyl and cds. I'm stupid like that.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More importantly, how do you classify CDs and tapes in those racks with individual slots ? How do you avoid having to move all your CDs down a notch when you get something by Abba or AC/DC ? Can you even buy any other kind of rack ?

― Patrick, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having recently bought new (larger) cd shelves, i took the opportunity to alphabetise my cds from the unruly mess they previously were. I must say it provides some interesting juxtapositions, mogwai next to kylie minogue for example, and has made me go "ooh, i'd forgotten i had that" a couple of times.

I blame Nick Hornby for the ghettoising of the once fine tradition of the occasional rearrangement :)

― carsmilesteve, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On acquisition of 370 CDs, some three years ago, I bought two CD Binders and shoved 'em in there in order of MEANING to me. Velvets first, then Lou Reed, then Lotion, then sort of a smattering of post- rock and indie stuff then it sort of degenerated. I did put all my compilations together, and I put my jazz and classical in seperate sections. Since I filled the last CD Binder (which brings us to roughly 440) I haven't bothered to file my CDs at all, which leads to a big unruly mess. -- there's a "current rotation" stack of about 50, and just a big rack for the rest.

As for records, I used to do it by artist, sort of randomly (there are only ten or so artists [Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Stones, Who, Talking Heads, et. cet.] I have big collections of, and i have five or so boxes of records -- so I'd put the artists at the front and back of each box) but now it's sort of degenerated into the remains of that, an "indie" section, a "punk" section, and numerous things pulled from all over into my "music that my hip-hop DJ friend frequently borrows when she wants to spin 80s" section. There's my classical section, unsorted, my "unreconstructed trash" section and, geez, well I never actually organize them so much as stick things back roughly where I might find them again.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patrick was right to bemoan the current state of music storage furniture. So hard these days to find a decent rack w/ out paying a lot of money. But I would rather keep them all in a box than in one of those individual-slot things.

For me, it's alphabetical by artist, and titles for comps. Only by the first letter, though, it's too much bother to put them in strict order. So as long as all the As and Bs are together, I can find what I'm looking for. Always keep the "new acquisitions" separate of course, so I'm tempted to grab them.

The beauty of not organizing your records at all (my method for many years) is that you can forget you have something for a year or two, and then when you discover it it's like buying it all over again. That's a nice feeling.

― Mark Richardson, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's sorta organised into styles and themes (eg. Talk Talk is next to Spacemen 3/Spiritualized which is next to Loop which is next to My Bloody Valentine), with an attempt to get a chronological-by-artist effect as well as a gradation between styles. Unfortunately there's been too many hybridizations of ideas in music to make this truly possible, so I'm in a constant state of uncertainty as to what goes where.

― Tim, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Before I moved: alphabetically by artist then chronologically by release date, with separate sections for jazz, classical, and "everything else". This meant that a) I was often unsure where to put the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Meridian Arts Ensemble playing Zappa and Hendrix tunes; b) I had to move everything down whenever I got something not at the very end of the alphabet (i.e. new John Zorn CDs, pretty much the only new Z); b) I accumulated big piles of things that I refused to file because I was too lazy. After I moved: UTTER CHAOS. Small pockets of order due to the fact that before I moved, some of the things were in order before I put them in boxes. This order has dissipated slowly since August. Though I did just recently find all my jazz CDs (save for ones by Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea's Elektrik Band, e.g., which I am somewhat embarassed to own) and alphabetized them. Once I tried to do what Tim said, but conceptual problems caused the project to fail before I actually reshelved any of the CDs. Also (can you tell I love this shit?): regardless of my filing system, at any given moment there are anywhere from one to five (ish) large stacks of CDs around my room because I set them atop the CD player and, more recently, my table, after selecting them, "in case I need them soon." Obviously fallacious reasoning. And, because of the disorganization this causes, I also have large stacks of CDs NOT IN THEIR CASES sitting on top of my stereo and now even next to it (oh shit I have got to put those away really soon) - couldn't be bothered to find the cases. And, uh, a bunch of them reside long-term in various CD wallets because I'm too lazy to put them all away.

― Josh, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Completely random at the moment. If I had more room/space/shelving, I think the more logical way of storing CD/Tapes would be year, maybe one day I will sort them out that way.

John Peel on his show often comments on his collection which is A-Z order. Singles, LPs and CDs seperately.

DJ Martian http://djmartian.blogspot.com

― DJ Martian, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alphabetical order then release order with singles first. I have them on a bookshelf and because you get a couple of rows of cd's to a shelf, I put cardboard between the layers so they don't fall through when you take one from the bottom row. Vinyl and tapes are resigned to boxes and as such, are rarely accessed. I usually update the format to cd for the over-popular ones anyway.

― Audrey, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It used to be alphabetically, then it became irritating. Now it's by band and band splinter groups together and sometimes by genre; Cale, Reed and VU go together. The Who and Townshend and *shudder* Moon in the same binder. Stax and Atlantic boxes together.

LP's are on a shelf above my desk where I can view them and admire their beauty and smell. 45's are in one of my keen 45 boxes.

― JM, Monday, 22 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm with Tim on this one: genre + theme's. Indeed in my colection Talk Talk goes next to Spaceman3 who go next to Loop to MBV. Kraftwerk and Stereolab are there too (it's the "organic techno" section where Air live). Techno goes with techno, etc. I'm still looking for a place to put Kruder & Dorfmeister et al. Do they go with the techno, the dub or the hip-hop. All those cd's are awaiting processing in horizontal position :)

― Omar, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alphabetical (no genre separation; classical CDs go by first named composer, unless the artist [e.g. Kremer, du Pre] is the focus of the release), and then chronological (problem: with re-issues do you order by original date of release, or by order of re-issue?).

Compilations have their own section, organised alphabetically by title, though with Pam's CDs (which are housed separately) I prioritised label name ahead of title (she has many more single- imprint collections).

For years, I built up a great wobbly tower of Dixons/Virgin pine crates. Last autumn, Miss P and I splashed out on some Ikea stuff (actually two bookcases which we customised into mobile, reversible shelving units with 600-CD capacity each - four proper 6" shelves and one very thin one for flat storage of outsize/slipcase/box-set fellas). They're up against a wall, which means that I can only ever have A-M *or* N-Z on display at any one time. In bookcase 2, Pam gets to see to all of her collection bar the Zappa CDs. She's pretty cut up about that.

Next time I'll tell you all about the fun we had painting the buggers.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My CDs right now are a disorganised mess, however my mental image of them is so strong that I know pretty much exactly which shelf/crate/corner of the room I need to look in to find the CD I currently want to listen to. I sometimes think that if I alphabetize them, I won't be able to find anything any more. :)

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CDs are on two shelves, loosely divided between CDsingles and albums, but in no order, although a couple of stacks of CDs in favour at the moment are tottering by the hi-fi. Vinyl is split between 7", 12" and 10" (why??), LPs alphabetically without the compilations, nothing else filed. Tapes are in two drawers, no order.

But there are also--which no-one else seems to have a problem with, several shoeboxes of CDs so rubbish that I would not be able to sell them, but which I cannot bring myself to throw away. (Many of these are promos, therefore emotional investment in them *ought* to be zero...)

― alex thomson, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is the longest I Love Music thread ever, or at least it seems it. You people are sad. Best to build your own cases, by the way. Floor-to- ceiling bookshelf-like is best format, I'd say. To be sad myself, I categorize by genre:artist:chronological by release, as certain musics, e.g. Balkan Gypsy Speed Brass, do not lend themselves to alphabetical assimilation.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not the longest but I think it's one of the fastest growing, at least since we did the what music would you use to impress someone question.

I love the way no threads ever die on this forum. The joy of search ;)

― Tom, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BLAME ME BUT I DON'T GET A LINK, TYPICAL MAN. Bastards, all of you are bastards, YOU ALL SUCK.

Ahem.

Well, I already stated on my webpage :P that I organize mostly alphabetically, except that the seasonal CDs are at the end, regardless of their letter characterization, and "various artists" CDs are also at the back, ahead of seasonal. I used to never organize but found it completely horrible to try to go through all the CDs all over again and find what I'm looking for so now it's alphabetical.

I really would find it easier to organize by "important life events" but that's just really way too sad and everyone would stare and go, "Um". And then I'd have to explain everything.

― Ally, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, I'm not sad enough to qualify on the grid. It's a mess and I like it.

― Phil Paterson, Wednesday, 24 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, my LPs are in alphabetical order because it's impossible to find the album you're looking for otherwise, my 7's and 12's are in no order whatsoever except everwhere around the room.

Best of all, ever single one of my Cds are in graduated order according to the colour and tone of the spine (obviously white and black are at opposite ends). This gives a lovely "spectrum-of-the- rainbow" effect, and strangely I find it very easy to remember where every CD is (except the white and black ones, natch!)

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do some real crazy shit sometimes, yo. For example, instead of putting my David Byrne solo records with my Talking Heads LPs, I'll put them with my copy of the "No Talking, Just Heads" LP!! I know he'd hate that, but I'm crazy like a fox, you know!

Also: when doing it chronologically, I'll put my Miles David record from 1960 where an LP by him from '59 should go!! MERCY!

― Eugene Funkolopoulos, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

by color...like the rainbow, red orange, etc etc. it's very sad, but i had nothing to do over fall break.

― kate, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It helps if you're slavishly devoted to one particular type of music. Me, I have 2 categories: Goa, & then all the other stuff. ;)

― Inukko, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have two "towers" that hold 100 each split into two rows. The best records are at the top. I don't really know how I sort them, I just place them where it feels good. For example after the Red House Painters comes Songs: Ohia and then Elliott Smith etc Under the row of Belle and Sebastian records I have for example Field Mice and Trembling Blue Stars. Cure goes with Cranes. My bloody valentine with built to spill, sonic youth etc. Yeah I can't explain it better.

― John Smith, Saturday, 17 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

I organise my records using a complex serious of astrological charts and voodoo, combined with a healthy dash of feng shui. For example, 'Petula Clark's Hit Parade' must always be next to the first Beat Happening album or my mother's handbag will explode a week next Tuesday. It's a bugger, I can tell you. Perhaps I should order in terms of themes, for instance Deacon Blue's 'Raintown' could be next to The Walker Brothers' 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine'. I can't quite work out what to do with that Mr Men album though. Oh, the trials of life...

― Ally C, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

By color! And records by the same group should stay together. White at the top, then black, with Velvet Underground & Nico right above White Light/White Heat. Most are black. Bright colors at the bottom in order of however they get shoved into the rack.

― Lyra, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoy putting them into emotinol categories. Things that make me happy, things that make me sad, things that make me angry.

― anthony, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my record collection has been getting reorganised into a new system for about 3 years, i still haven't finished. singles (7"), most of em anyway, are still in alphabetical...or getting organised back into alphabetical...I'm making a inventory * of this stuff for the 1st time in my life, check it. hey so what do you reckon, do you count the definite article in a foreign language as the 1st part of the name alphabetically or not? Los Primos, El Captain Funkaho, where do I put 'em?

― duane, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alphabetical by artist, chronological by release date within that. No genre distinctions. Anythign else would confuse me. This does mean I have to move tings vaguelly about once a week when I go and buy summat new. Oh well...

― Nick Southall, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

all over the place, esp cds - those fucxkers get everywhere, clothes, books and all other shit all dumped all over the place as well. does anyone want any of them, they're getting in the way - if i come in pissed i have to, like, jump over everything coz i can't get to the bed. i gave away shit tarentel and infesticons cds yesterday

― gareth, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah my rm's like that too, but under the debris - lots of boxes of records that are mostly in some sort of order. I have too much stuff! if someone wants to hamburglarise my house here's the address - 1 Oates St., Roslyn, Dunedin. We have a dog but if you go in through the window of my room she probably won't be able to get you if the door's shut.

― duane, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't categorise music any more, I can't be bothered. Too much stuff to shift around.

― DG, Sunday, 29 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alphabetical for me. How dull I am. I used to do it by the order I got it, which basically meant no moving discs around, but that taxed my purchases memory far too much. :)

― palpable, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Least colorful album color to most

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Back when everything was new...

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, now I organise everything by bitrate and file-size. ;-)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i got too lazy to organize, although i usually can find my favorite stuff.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Umm. By the bands.

And they are in two categories: Things with Dave Grohl and Things without Dave Grohl.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I organise my music into the following categories:

Bhangra
Electronica
Grime
Hiphop & Triphop
Jungle & DNB
Miscellaneous
Mixes
Reggae, Dancehall, and Dub
Soundtracks

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(hint: Electronica is the biggest)

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I use the ancient method refered to as a "pile".

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Entirely alphabetical & chronological - chronological by release date, NOT purchase date - with lotsa empty spaces left open and constantly being filled. "Various Artists" collections tucked snugly in the 'V' section, between (I think) Edgar Varese and Vaselines. And absolutely no segregation by genre. I'm not only proud of that, I'm smug about it! I just dig the fact that I could grab a clump of discs from the St-Su section, and be confronted with Stooges/Sun Ra/Streisand/Styx/Stravinsky/Stereolab and so much more. Alphabetical is indeed kinda boring & unimaginative, but as hundreds become thousands it's also NECESSARY, at least for me. If I decided I needed to hear Last Exit but couldn't find it anywhere...

― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only person who actually categorizes their CDs by the colour of the spine? For a primary colour like red I organize the CDs in a gradient that shifts from yellow through orange to pink to red and finally very dark red colours. I do the same with blue CDs and green CDs. The white ones I also keep seperate, as I do with the black ones.

This system is proving to be a real pain (especially when trying to figure out if one colour is objectively "darker" or "lighter" than another), but it sure is nice to look at.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

mine are stored completely randomly. this makes my life far far more fun as i find stuff by accident.
though i recently discoivered case logic cases that hold 240 odd cd's. these may have indeed saved my life from eternal earache re storage solutions.
anyone want to collect 500 empty cd cases ?

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

f3 - type name of track/artist - return.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Same as mark e. If I use some system of categorization, I forget that I have certain cds, if everything is random I constantly come across good artists that I have forgotten I had/haven't listened to in too long. It's a bitch to find anything in particular, though.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Five categories:

- Metal, alphabetical (about 90% of my collection)
- Classical, chronological by composer
- Non-metal singles, alphabetical
- Non-metal albums, alphabetical
- Non-metal compilations, chronological (all are dance comps)

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Just came across this. I have no idea how this guy's categorizing this collection of 13,5000 but he's a real moron for storing them the way they are in these pictures.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2596112399&category=306

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

err.. make that 13,500.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my god, what a cockhead - nobody's going to want to buy records that have been stored that way

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely don't want those ones down in the corner by the space heater.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

alphebetical by artist, in order of release dates.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm scared to look at my grandfather's record collection. When he died, it was one of the largest bluegrass and country collections in Texas. He built a special room in the garage and shelves to put them on - probably 50 feet of wall-space, 8-foot ceilings. I don't know how many records that would be.

But six years ago, my uncle 'borrowed' the window-unit air conditioner that controlled the temperature, and they've been at the mercy of Texas humidity and cold ever since. My grandmother would let me go through and pick out what I like (early George Jones and Johnny Cash, the original Stanley Brothers stuff), but I'm afraid they're all warped to hell and useless.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I also do alphabetically, in order of release dates. I only categorize by media type (cd/lp/7"/tape), not by genre. I think it's easiest this way.

A few months ago, I agonized over music organization on my website:
http://executiveslacks.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_executiveslacks_archive.html#106694206118864713

― Ex Slacker, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I was hoping there was going to be a link to the Excel file so we could all scrutinize it carefully for you.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have those big CD bags you slip the liners into so you can through away the jewel cases. I arrange them based on their proximity to Rammstein CDs, basically--Rammstein is in the middle of the main bag--which means that the styles of music emanate outwards. Hence, British Invasion stuff is near the end and beginning, dance stuff is everywhere, and...actually, it's more dne by colors.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

How has the iPod changed this?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I categorize mine into:

-Good or better than good

-Rubbish and I'm going to get rid of them.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mine are in the order that I bought them, except that I stick albums by the same artist together (chronologically). I also separate singles from albums.

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Alphabetical by artist, chronological by release date within artist, anything not in a standard jewel case on the 'special shelves for delicate things'. Yes they're in a database. Oh lordy lordy.

My iPod genres (with one 'typical' artist for each!) are as follows;

Alternative & Punk (Wire), Alternative / Pop (Pulp), Ambient (Brian Eno), Ambient / Dream Pop (Bark Psychosis), Avant-garde (Penguin Cafe Orchestra), Country (Gillian Welch), Dance (Adamski), Dancehall (Sean Paul), Electronic (Cabaret Voltaire), Electronica / Dance (Plaid), Folk (Nick Drake), Funk (Lee Dorsey), Hard Rock (Guns N Roses), Hip Hop / Rap (Missy Elliott), Indie (Embrace), Jazz (Dave Douglas), Krautrock (CAN), Pop (Britney), Postrock (Boredoms), R&B (Beyonce), Reggae (Augustus Pablo), Rock (Rufus Wainwright), Rock & Roll (Chuck Berry), Soul (Al Green), Soundtrack (Tosca Tango Orchestra), World (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan).

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Boredoms = POSTROCK?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Well what the fuck else am I gonna call them? It's Vision Creation Newsun on there.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Well what the fuck else am I gonna call them? It's Vision Creation Newsun on there.

Neo-Krautrock. Or J-Krautrock.

I now have the Latin CDs on the smallish CD case near my stereo organized alphabetically by arist. It's a radical experiment in alphabetization for me.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)

you could call early boredoms no wave and later boredoms trance

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I want to create a 'boredoms/side projects' genre. Anything else is too complicated.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

does sonic youth count as a boredoms sidepoject?

ANYONE REMEMBER ID3V1 WHERE "PRIMUS" WAS A GENRE?

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

alphabetically then chronologically

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago)

pseudo alphabeticaly (numbers taken as words, i.e. the 3d's go in the t for 'three' section), and i seperate new zealand artists into their own racks (helps with my radio show..)

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I had arranged mine by spine colour, in the order of the spectrum, but it got messed up pretty quickly, so now they're just lucky if they're on the shelf at all.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Alphabetically then chronologically is quite complicated enough for me.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Alphabetically but in sections: IN (LIKE OTHER MUSIC DOES), COMPILATIONS, BOOTLEGS, HIP HOP, JAZZ, OUT (PSYCH, EXPERIMENTAL, KRAUTROCK), ELECTRONIC, CLASSICAL, SPOKEN WORD

my vinyl is all alphabetical

― Francisco Monar (fmonar), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Each time I have sex, I play a different record, then rank them on how good the sex was.

So, er, '20 Jazz-Funk Greats' is first, and the rest is undecided...

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Dance and Electronica
Metal and Hardcore
Reggae/Dub/Dancehall
Indie and Pop
World/Novelty/Oldies/Other

Then in a vague alphabetical order.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Vinyl = Alphabetical then chronologically

Non-Reggae CDs = Alphabetical then chronologically
Reggae CDs = Alphabetical etc but separate from Non-Reggae CDs

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't, which becomes a problem when I want to find something to play.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i feel a strong need to organise my records now. strong, very strong, but i wonder if it will make sense in the end. alphabetical doesn't appeal to me cos that way something I'd like would go all the way to the bottom. by genre and liking seems about right

― rizzx (rizzx), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

house/techno - by label in alpha order. the main purpose of this is to make sure all the speichers line up with their different colours.

the rest, just scattered about the room

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

The prob with alphabetical ordering is I forget some of the stuff I have so it means certain records will never be played until I accidentally discover them. So I am regrouping them according to genre. This also helps with my nerdier tendencies so if I want to play stuff related to a certain artist,its easier to find. I don't have a library, it's abouta 1000 records, but anything helps.

― candyman, Saturday, 13 February 2021 06:24 (four years ago)

I feel like my method only makes sense to me when I explain it to people:

- ~25% of my collection is country, so I separate those out from the rest
- Within the two categories - country & everything else - it's broadly chronological, but...
- I group all records by a given artist together
- For artists that active over long stretches of time, there's always a logical place to start their grouping - e.g. the Stones in the late 60s, even though I have a copy of Tattoo You

This is 100% logical to me but I only have ~300 records.

― Indexed, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:06 (four years ago)

First sort alphabetical A-Z by artist or composer, second sort chronological earliest to latest. Anything else is rampant perversion.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:21 (four years ago)

We have about 12 records and they are in one category (“the records”)

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:26 (four years ago)

i (used to) dj out and it was rlly helpful when i split everything up by genre. it was too difficult to find stuff alphabetically. within genre. i had each genre sorted alphabetically, but now things are getting clustered into groups of records that go well together when i spin.

― davey, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:28 (four years ago)

~~withing genre~~

― davey, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:30 (four years ago)

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