Categorizing records


Just got the neatest cherry record cabinets ($117 ea) and I'm ready to catalog and categorize most of my records. I've got 100 LP dividers and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on categorizing other than MUSIC STYLE/ARTIST/ALPHABETIZING.

Anyone have a LP database to catalog them? Thought I would design one in Filemaker.

I wish the Goldmine pricing guide was on CD, so I could cut & paste the info in my data base. Then I could put it in my pocket pc to take with me to record stores!
champtree
My case is near identical to Rushton above. The only sad difference is, the d-base is NOT well updated and, so, I have to rely on (failing) memory as well as the incomplete palm when buying records!
There's a good difference, too: I have more than 5000 LPs (mostly classical).
Cataloging, what a typically male pursuit, may I add my recomendation to whatch "High Fidelity", a good film anyway. At one point John Cusack, impresses a friend by saying he is recataloging his records by when they were bought and the relationship he was in, thats obsessional, not to say anally retentive. I really do my best, but struggle even keeping them the same way up so I can read the spines. My real dilemma is what to do with compilations. What composer do you file them unde? I lose sleep over rhat one.
Yep! I know what you mean. Just finished going thru my 4000 records and I filled my classical compilations under orchestras, or in the case of my jazz collection (because it's small) just "Jazz Compilations" in random order.
I forgot to add, what do you do when your cabinets for CD's and LP's are full and the wife says there is no room for any more. I have to grudgingly admit she may have a point.
Do you: A) By the shelves anyway and take the flack.
B) Change your buying habits
C) Change the wife
Answers on a postcard please.
David
Simple reply to your question.

"Sorry honey no more shoes- after all your name isn't Imelda"

DISCLAIMER-- I am not married

Now its off to the store to buy more records, and maybe a pair of shoes.

Happy Listening,

~FX