How do you organize your physical music collection? (soundtrack, itunes, albums, beatles)

scottsy · 01-01-2009, 08:27 PM

When I didn't have a huge number of CDs I used to organise them by preference - most preferred bands were usually at the top of the stack, so as to make them most easily accesible, as they'd be what I played most...

THEN, as my collection bloomed out to around 400 plus CDs thast system became completely unweildy and stupid, so I went for a alphabetical arrangement, with CDs stacked chronologically by release date within each artist category...

Then I moved to the US, so I dissassembled my CD stacks, put all the jewel cases into boxes (which are still sitting in my uncle's garage to this very day...) and loaded my entire CD collection into 3 massive wallets containing roughly 300 CDs each... they are kept alphabetically within these wallets... can be a somewhat cumbersome system, but preferable to spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars shipping massive boxes of jewel cases...

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01-01-2009, 08:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
scottsy Untalented Drummer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sussex, Wisconsin Posts: 2,900	When I didn't have a huge number of CDs I used to organise them by preference - most preferred bands were usually at the top of the stack, so as to make them most easily accesible, as they'd be what I played most... THEN, as my collection bloomed out to around 400 plus CDs thast system became completely unweildy and stupid, so I went for a alphabetical arrangement, with CDs stacked chronologically by release date within each artist category... Then I moved to the US, so I dissassembled my CD stacks, put all the jewel cases into boxes (which are still sitting in my uncle's garage to this very day...) and loaded my entire CD collection into 3 massive wallets containing roughly 300 CDs each... they are kept alphabetically within these wallets... can be a somewhat cumbersome system, but preferable to spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars shipping massive boxes of jewel cases... __________________ "If you're like me, then it's possible you're a clone generated from my stolen DNA. I suggest you turn yourself in for destruction immediately" - Shaun Micallef.