How do you organize your physical music collection?

Dunno what organisation is :p

And it totally sucks that sometimes I just feel like something totally different and it takes me an hour to find it... Then to not listen to it again for yonks :p

I want to order it (Genre) But I am just too lazy sometimes... Plus I know I will never to be able to keep it organised...

All digitalised music is in order by genre or Australian... Which is odd when you read jazz, metal, etc etc then Australian as if it were its own genre :p
 
i do alphabetically by artist, then albumize (is that a word?) chronologically within the artist.
in my CRAB, i have two piles. mixed cRAB and one-artist cRAB. the t ypical cRAB are sorted by what i listen to most frequently, piled on top of everything else which is in no particular order. my burned cRAB are roughly chronological..based on when i made them.
my burned cRAB are also labelled with emotions that give me a clue as to whats on the cd, so i keep them loosely together
 
Actually after she'd taken an interest in the shininess of CRAB, I found a whole stack of burned CRAB I don't care much for, so I gave her a stack of those and she was as happy as a pig in mud... so now when she's eyeing off the precious collection, I give those and it takes her mind poff it. It's good for my CRAB. Good for me. Good for her! It's a win, win win sorta situation...
 
I think that's part of the fun. The way the shelf order evolves and the way you have to really ask yourself if you still love a certain album as much as you used to.




That binder just blows my mind.


...and I wonder who dared to vote "Genre" after Urban's rant. :laughing:
 
Hardly at all...

all the rubbish albums I don't like anymore go in a draw out of the way, and my CD shelf is just in a pretty random order - except some banRAB are vaguely grouped together from ages ago when I got half way through organizing them and then got bored. Also, there are rubber ducks amongst my CRAB on my shelf - dunno why, but it looks good.

As for digital, just the basic alphabetical layout that iTunes does.
 
When it comes to CD's...

I just have it, where...

Signed CD's are first, after that are the ones that I listen to the most, and then the ones that I have, that don't really get any play.


When it comes to MP3's...

Organized by Artist



I have to have it labeled perfect, in my way.
If it's not, I can't listen to it.

I have to have...

Song: Every Word Capitalized In The Title.
Artist: Singer ft. Guest


I can't have it say "Ft." "Feat." or "feat."

It has to say "ft."
 
You've got some capitalization issues going on there. :p:

Personally when it comes to digital organization, it's just artist folder and album folders within that. I don't see a need to complicate it beyond that (and I'm not criticizing those that do). Comps are in a Compilations folder, with the title of the comp for each folder. I keep everything nice and organized in iTunes and my actual folders reflect that same organization.
 
Loose genres. Very loose. Like, rock, harder rock, pop, classical, hip-hop, electronica, Teenage Fanclub.

Alphabetical by artists within genres.
 
I actually have Foobar on my laptop. I think I used it once, ages ago, to convert some files or something and then left it to gather virtual dust. I'll go have a look at that at some point then!
 
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