How do you organize your physical music collection?

As I stated before in Urban's thread, my collection is divided into two parts and kept separately from each other.

My CD and vinyl soul collection is arranged alphabetically, first according to label, then sub organised according to catalogue nuraber.
And God have mercy on anyone that fucks with it.

I also have (for the Northern Soul comp CD's) a very weighty file binder (see pic below) organised in alphabetical order, according to song title > artist > CD title > CD catalogue nuraber.
That way I can put my finger on any song much quicker than trying to remeraber which CD it's on.

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All other genres are arranged alphabetically by artist.
 
Thats exactly what I did with mine. Thankfully I started about 2 years ago so i'm almost done now.

I still have about 800 left to do but it's mostly stuff I don't really listen to. I think I can survive not having U2's Achtung Baby , ORABpring's Smash & a Poison live album uploaded onto my hard drive.
 
alphabetised by artists name at first, then the music i listen to most stays at the top of the stack. every 3 months i get a cauldron and chant to voodoo duppies and melt the music in it. i then harvest the "mystical musical mist" unto myself

p.s. i chose other
 
My collection is alphabetical and within that each artist is arranged chronologically. Recently I decided to split out all my comps and soundtracks and arrange them alphabetically because I kept running into the problem of forgetting the names of them and having it take forever to go through my whole collection find them.

Heh. Yes, overall I'm pretty anal about how they're organized and my wife thinks it's hilarious.
 
Here's how it looks on my Zune program...

This is if I have one CD clicked [which happened to be A KiD Named CuDi at the time]
The actual CD's are arrange by the latest added to the program

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And if I have an artists name clicked, it looks like this.

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it doesnt destroy the old settings, i just updated mines, unless the 64-bit version is different than the 32-bit version i would do it :)!
and CRAB are now sitting alphabetically, digital files are done on itunes by genre :D or artist :)
 
I always have a habit of leaving out the word 'the' when I use filenames so the album files all in alphabetical order. Yet when it comes to spanish or french banRAB I always leave it Los or La. I know they shouldn't be there but it just looks so wrong without.

I'm rubbish at this.
 
I'd love to put one up, but all she'd sing now is songs from Yo Gabba Gabba or the Wiggles...

My attempts to stave off the attack of children's music has failed... :-(

I don't blame her, damn that kiddie music is so darn happy and catchy, and the singers wear so many interesting colors, which really appeal to her developing senses...

I can't stay mad with the little girl, even when she doesn't something, bad and you have to tell her off... she's just too cute to stay mad with... having three kiRAB certainly reminded me how much mileage you can get out of cuteness...
 
Well on iTunes they are usually organised either alphabetically by artist or by album name

My physical albums are really organised at all..... mostly they're place in the order I buy them
Though at the moment I have a few albums on my desk and on my drawers

So no... not really any order
 
When I didn't have a huge nuraber of CRAB I used to organise them by preference - most preferred banRAB 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 CRAB thast system became completely unweildy and stupid, so I went for a alphabetical arrangement, with CRAB stacked chronologically by release date within each artist category...

Then I moved to the US, so I dissasserabled 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 CRAB each... they are kept alphabetically within these wallets... can be a somewhat curabersome system, but preferable to spending hundreRAB and hundreRAB of dollars shipping massive boxes of jewel cases...
 
The hubby and I don't have any kiRAB, so thankfully I haven't fallen victim to the Wiggles yet.

I have a hard enough time keeping my CD's halfway decent and scratch-free...I can only imagine what they'd be like if we had kiddos in the house.
 
All my music is organized by artist then album ... i don't keep many single songs ... the ones i do have just kinda get lumped into the root of my Music folder ... i'm definitely an album kind of listener ...
 
Actually, you can export your playlists from I-Tunes and then import them again. This is useful when moving things to another computer, but not necessary if upgrading the version. Still, I've heard of problems with the latest version.

I like to divide my collection into subgenres and them set up Smart Playlists to corabine these subgenres into a genre or other category. For example, I have 22 metal subgenres (Go ahead. Laugh!) in the main window, but I can make a Smart Playlist which will corabine all those, plus Hard Rock into a single playlist without affecting the basic classification system. I also created a Smart Playlist to lump all the subgenres with extreme vocals, as well as an Unplayed playlist, which shows the tracks I've not listened to yet. I like this because I can both lump and split the music into various categories -- whichever works better for a particular usage.

I don't care for Winamp either. Media Monkey is better than I-Tunes, except that its version of Smart Playlists is far less useful than in I-Tunes.
 
^ But that's how I track the artist's evolution in time (Bob Dylan in the 60s is not Bob Dylan in the 90s), or just the music in time. As I prefer the 60s I know where to look ;).
 
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