How do you store and catalog your vinyl?


Just curious how members store, sort and catalog their vinyl collection.
With less than a 1000 I have a hard time remembering just what I already own and have purchased duplicates by mistake whilst at the LRS.

How do you store them?
How do you sort them? Alphabetical or genre or year?
Catalog? In the good old days probably in a note book modern equivalent would be a word document or excel spreadsheet.

Very interested to hear what you do and how you manage that massive collection.
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Oh Geoff, I thought you meant that a CD itself sounds better if stored vertically! Maybe your room benefits from horizontal diffusion (from vertically-orientated diffusors). Mine does, for planar speakers. Plastic CD jewel cases are nasty, cardboard much nicer.
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But the collection of CDs in jewel cases is acting as a resonator, not a diffuser. Even if CDs are in paper cases the sound in the room will be better if vertically stored. Same with all media, even videos and books. See where I’m going with this? 😬
So, you're saying plastic jewel cases don't reflect sound waves that hit them?! The jewel case's internal volume may also resonate, but it's not either/or.
No I’m not saying that at all. But reflection doesn’t equate to diffusion. That’s is actually why I said they act as resonators, though. Everything in the room reflects. Also, even if the CDs were stored horizontally they would still reflect. But the sound would be worse.

You can control the experiment to eliminate obvious causes like diffusion and reflection. Like covering the CDs with a thick blanket. Besides, I just gave the big secret away. Don’t tell anyone. 🤫 I said all media behaves this way, I.e., store vertically.  It doesn’t have anything to do with room acoustics, well, except for the resonator part which you can eliminate with paper sleeves.