hi, tom:
Thomas Millar wrote:
quoted 9 lines As far as sorting stuff goes, due to the ridiculous percentage of CDs I own> As far as sorting stuff goes, due to the ridiculous percentage of CDs I own
> carrying the 'various artists' moniker, I said fuck a bunch of alphabets and
> went for color-coding the whole mess by the art on the spine. So my racks
> looked like a large, uneven spectrum for a while, red to yellow to green to
> blue and ending on black to grey then white, and it worked quite well. My
> memory is more apt to quickly recall an album cover than an obscure artist
> or title off the cuff. Since the initial sorting I've moved twice and
> purchased lots more junk, so it's not quite as well organized as before, but
> it still works to an extent. It's kind of pretty, too.
that's pretty funny...in fact, it calls to mind an excellent piece written for
tower records' 'pulse' magazine (by, i think, david greenberg (??)not sure i
have that rightwho used to publish 'the duplex planet' mag and website)
regarding how, uh, site specific record collectors could get when it came to
the organization hierarchies of their collections. he went on to mention not
only folks who organized by color coding (as you mentioned), but also
regardless of genre (in other words, alphabetically combining rock, jazz,
electronic, everything from a-z), by artist geographically and (most bizarrely)
by the order in which the collector had bought them, in other words, the exact
date and time, and kept them filed in that order. saints preserve us! this is
where it gets a little spooky...guy _definitely_ needed to get out into the
fresh air more often.
but the bottom line in all this is that one needs to be comfortable on the best
way to retrieve individual recordings. i consider my system fairly basic: each
genre (electronic, rock, jazz) is filed alphabetically in each of its own
sections, each disc is filed in order of year of release...and that's about it.
digging more into the minutiae of it all, i used to file compilations at the
end of each genre, but for a while now they've gone alphabetically by
title...seems to make it easier, especially when filing pesky items such as
remix albums, dj mix cds, compilations where the different artists are simply
aliases of one individual, etc.
gad, what fun, eh?
quoted 2 lines Worthwhile to point out that afterwards people universally agreed that I was> Worthwhile to point out that afterwards people universally agreed that I was
> more insane than they had initially given me credit for.
ditto ;) hey, what the 'ell...makes life a helluvalot more interesting, no?
hmm...time to book that bahamas vaca, maybe...
darrenb
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