Shawn Posted June 23, 2009 Report Posted June 23, 2009 I don't organize them well. And I do lose discs. . . He's NOT lying! Aha! So that's where those discs I bought from Shawn came from! Nope. But I did leave one of my discs there and realized I would never find it so I gave up. LOL Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted June 23, 2009 Report Posted June 23, 2009 If you have a fairly wide range of musical genres to accommodate and if you own a sizable number of Various Artist compilations, the alphabetic method rapidly reaches its limits of total impracticality. I have a very wide range of musical genres AND a lot of Various Artist compilations. I sort by strict alpha by artist regardless of genre. I can't imagine sorting genres WITHING genres! My VA comps are shelved after the main body of the collection, and then alpha by title... I can see your point but but it's probably just a matter of what you really are used to in your everyday listening, collecting and filing . I know I'd never find a darn thing if I'd have to dig through Johnnie Ray (filed under pop) being filed right after Floyd Ray (Swing) and next to the Ray-O-Vacs (filed under blues/R&B). etc. whenever I just wanted to pull out a few stylistically related discs to spin (without planning everything in advance). And so on and so on ... Quote
Peter Friedman Posted June 23, 2009 Report Posted June 23, 2009 I let software arrange them for me. I have this sick urge to just once file jazz by label (and then probably by recording date, though maybe release instead) just to see what it looks like. However it's a hell of a lot easier to do with a couple of mouse clicks in the database, so that will have to suffice. :rsmile: My system seems to be different than most. I file jazz cd's by label in alpha order. Within a label I file by artist in alpha order. If I have a large number of CDs by an artist on the same label I file in order of recording date. To crosscheck I keep a 3X5 card for every jazz cd filed by artist in alpha order. this allows me to go to my 3X5 card file to look up all my cd's by - for example - Zoot Sims. The cards have the label written down so it is easy for me to find any Zoot CDs I may have forgotten about. It may sound complicated, but is actually quite simple once you understand how it works. It helps that I have a pretty good memory for what I have and the labels they are on. For my classical cd's I file by composer in alpha order. My collection of CDs is well over 6,000, I haven't done a count in a long time, and this filing system works fine for me. Quote
Alexander Posted June 23, 2009 Report Posted June 23, 2009 I let software arrange them for me. I have this sick urge to just once file jazz by label (and then probably by recording date, though maybe release instead) just to see what it looks like. However it's a hell of a lot easier to do with a couple of mouse clicks in the database, so that will have to suffice. :rsmile: My system seems to be different than most. I file jazz cd's by label in alpha order. Within a label I file by artist in alpha order. If I have a large number of CDs by an artist on the same label I file in order of recording date. I'll have to ask him, but I think my friend Henry does something similar. When I was at in place in Virginia a few weeks ago, I remember seeing this wall of white BN spines, so I think he keeps them shelved by label. I can't imagine doing anything like that. Too complicated. Too confusing... Quote
Niko Posted July 5, 2009 Report Posted July 5, 2009 used to enjoy ordering my cds in different ways but now i keep them in disorder... i often don't find what i was looking for initially but i always find something to listen to ... borrowed a cd from a friend recently and it seems to have vanished, rebought it for him, guess it won't reappear before i buy it for myself as well... got an empty case back from a friend, three weeks later he gave me back the cd and i put it into a case with some other cd that was lying around because i couldn't find the right case... now i have the case but i have no idea where the cd is - guess i'll have to open all cases some time in the near future (sonny stitt - legend of acid jazz: low flame, my favorite patterson/stitt cd...) so the approach does have its downsides (and it only works because i have a (by the standarsds here) small collection of only about 1000 cds...) Oh. My. God. That literally sounds like a nightmare to me. How do you live like that?! it worked pretty well until this thread came up... spend quite some time looking for the two cds mentioned above, found them and even discovered three more cds which weren't literally lost but which i would never have found where they were... but in the course of all this i noticed i lost two more cds were missing, including one of the recent blue note deletions... have listened to both some time in the last few weeks but have no idea where i put them (i do have the cases, it's just the cds that are missing) this thread is driving me nuts! Quote
sidewinder Posted July 5, 2009 Report Posted July 5, 2009 I too only have a small collection of 1,000 CDs, but unlike others I have repurchased discs I thought lost only to have the originals resurface later. So it goes...I can always trade them in at my local brick and mortar, Euclid Records. You know all of us Organissimites are sick puppies when we start saying things like "ONLY a SMALL collection of 1,000 CDs"! Ain't that the truth ! Quote
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