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How do you organize you music collection?

I don't have a physical collection
6 (8%)
Alphabetically by artist
40 (53.3%)
Alphabetically by album
0 (0%)
Chronologically
9 (12%)
Randomly
11 (14.7%)
By Genre
4 (5.3%)
By artist's penis size
0 (0%)
Other (specify)
5 (6.7%)

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Offline ScioPath

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How do you organize your music collection?
« on: June 04, 2011, 08:45:35 AM »
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2011, 08:48:31 AM »
You'll laugh but once I loaded them into my computer, I stored my 1750 cd's in boxes down in the cellar to make space.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM »
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2011, 08:51:31 AM »
Roughly by genre/style. Each artist's stuff is together in chronological order.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2011, 08:57:11 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2011, 08:57:32 AM »
Quote from: Portrucci on June 04, 2011, 08:57:11 AM
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.


That's how I do it. :tup
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2011, 08:58:10 AM »
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2011, 09:00:26 AM »
I organized them by Artist/year, but that only lasted aboot a week before it went back to random.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2011, 09:15:10 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2011, 09:18:23 AM »
I don't like buying CDs. A CD is so.. I don't know... impersonal. I get every special edition I can get my hands on though. And they're just randomly displayed on some shelves.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2011, 09:31:17 AM »
Artist and then chronological.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2011, 09:32:27 AM »
Alphabetically by artist. I tag classical music tracks by composer, I put the performer in the comment section.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2011, 10:38:17 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

This.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2011, 10:40:27 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

This exactly.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2011, 10:48:45 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2011, 10:50:06 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2011, 10:57:42 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

This. Like a badass.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2011, 11:01:48 AM »
Wow, I'm the only one who has my CDs arranged by genre/style?
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #18 on: June 04, 2011, 11:05:12 AM »
That doesn't even make sense.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2011, 11:06:46 AM »
It makes sense, it's just a much more complicated system.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #20 on: June 04, 2011, 11:08:46 AM »
I find it easier, means if I'm in the mood for some metal, I can go to the metal section, or if I'm in the mood for some jazz I can go there, whatever.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #21 on: June 04, 2011, 11:12:00 AM »
I stack them on a shelf by artist, and depending on the material of the CD (hard cover books, normal jewel case, soft paper ala a lot of PT's older album versions) I put the more flimsy ones on top so they don't get ruined.

So yeah... I voted other.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #22 on: June 04, 2011, 11:16:26 AM »
Quote from: zxlkho on June 04, 2011, 11:05:12 AM
That doesn't even make sense.
Makes perfect sense to me. I just can't be arsed, i just look at the first letter of the band's name and slap the CD there.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #23 on: June 04, 2011, 11:28:58 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #24 on: June 04, 2011, 11:43:01 AM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

This, of course. The logical way.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2011, 11:55:50 AM »
Physical music collections? Ew
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2011, 11:58:18 AM »
Most of my collection has been kind of random for the last two years. The rest of it is sorted by when I purchased the respective albums.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2011, 12:00:53 PM »
Quote from: kingshmegland on June 04, 2011, 08:48:31 AM
You'll laugh but once I loaded them into my computer, I stored my 1750 cd's in boxes down in the cellar to make space.

I don't see anyone laughing at this.  It's also exactly what I do.  I rarely put a CD in my home system and haven't in my car in 4 years since I got my Alpine iPod-controlling deck installed.

I used to have a Sony 300 CD changer but got rid of it about 5 years ago since HDD storage became so cheap and wav>mp3 encoding became fast and solid... and once my CD collection broke 300 and having to constantly be removing CD's and putting new ones into the changer I just said fuck it, it's not worth the trouble.  I had a typed-out list of everything in the changer so if I wanted to listen to something specific I could look it up but it's just such a hassle.

If I have time to myself and REALLY want to just stop everything and immerse myself into some music I'll use my home theatre.  But 99.9% of the time it's all digital, all the time.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2011, 12:04:45 PM »
I own two physical albums (nearly three, actually) which I organize strictly by electronegativity.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2011, 12:07:28 PM »
Quote from: kingshmegland on June 04, 2011, 08:48:31 AM
You'll laugh but once I loaded them into my computer, I stored my 1750 cd's in boxes down in the cellar to make space.

1750? Dude that's a lot.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #30 on: June 04, 2011, 12:08:54 PM »
I generally browse my music via:

Genre  >> Artist (alphabetically) >> Album (by release year)
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« Reply #31 on: June 04, 2011, 12:21:44 PM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #32 on: June 04, 2011, 12:50:55 PM »
@LHK, something clever, no doubt. :P
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #33 on: June 04, 2011, 01:05:54 PM »
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Re: How do you organize your music collection?
« Reply #34 on: June 04, 2011, 01:16:38 PM »
Quote from: Zantera on June 04, 2011, 08:49:56 AM
Alphabetically by artists/bands, and then the albums chronologically.

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