How do you organize your physical music collection? (soundtrack, singer, cds, albums)

WaspStar · 09-15-2008, 06:51 AM

A spinoff from a discussion on Urban's "100 things that piss me off..." thread.

I used to file everything alphabetically, but it was annoying to have Beatles albums, which I never listen to, cluttering up the top shelf, not to mention the embarrasing albums like the Joan Armatrading album a friend bought for me. So now I organize everything based on:
1. How much I like it
2. How often I listen to it

#2 is more important. I'm extremely lazy and don't feel like wading through the bottom shelf everytime I want to listen to XTC or X-Ray Spex, which is pretty often, so I just put those albums up on the top shelf. Problem solved.

It's also more interesting because I'm the only one who can find anything, unless someone else knows my tastes pretty well and can guess that Who's Next will be somewhere near the top while Live At Leeds will be somewhere closer to the floor.

View Poll Results: How do you organize your music?
Alphabetically	57	55.34%
Genre	15	14.56%
Other (elaborate in post)	31	30.10%
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09-15-2008, 06:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
WaspStar Back to mono Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 509	How do you organize your physical music collection? A spinoff from a discussion on Urban's "100 things that piss me off..." thread. I used to file everything alphabetically, but it was annoying to have Beatles albums, which I never listen to, cluttering up the top shelf, not to mention the embarrasing albums like the Joan Armatrading album a friend bought for me. So now I organize everything based on: 1. How much I like it 2. How often I listen to it #2 is more important. I'm extremely lazy and don't feel like wading through the bottom shelf everytime I want to listen to XTC or X-Ray Spex, which is pretty often, so I just put those albums up on the top shelf. Problem solved. It's also more interesting because I'm the only one who can find anything, unless someone else knows my tastes pretty well and can guess that Who's Next will be somewhere near the top while Live At Leeds will be somewhere closer to the floor. __________________ "This sure doesn't look like 'Crazy Ernie's Amazing Emporium of Total Bargain Madness!'"