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How Do You Organize Your Music?

Depending on how much music you have, I'm sure everyone organizes their music a little differently. Do you separate by genre, then alphabetize? Do you have a chronological system? Do you tab where the next letter starts?

I'm curious to know how people with huge music libraries catalogue their music. Digital music can be very easy to organize if you have accurate ID3 tags, but what do you do with your CDs and LPs?
heyitsmedusty
unsound
7,344 posts
 
I organize my CD's alaphabeticly by artist, then by chronological release.
Most classical is by first titled composer. Most popular music by performer, unless it's an homage or tribute to sole composer(s), then it's by composer(s).
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proghead
51 posts
 

Autobiographically of course! :)
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rushton
2,445 posts
 
Music goes on the shelves here organized into one of five major categories: Classical, Blues, Celtic, Jazz and Pop/Rock. Within each category LPs are sorted alphabetically (by composer for classical, by artist for jazz, folk, rock, blues, pop). Classical gets more complex due to the multiple composers who may be represented on a given LP; I generally choose by the composer whose work on that LP is most significant to me, sometimes by a category such as Renaissance Lute music. The ultimate tool is the PC database in which I've recorded each piece as acquired and which allows me to search/filter by composer, work, artist, genre, label, catalogue number, etc.
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imin2u
392 posts
 
By country of pressing, then alphabetically

But 50% are disorganized
mijknarf
266 posts
 
I find that my listening moods tend to be divide into four categories and this is how I have my music filed:
1. Female vocals (alphabetically)
2. Male vocals (alphabetically)
3. Non vocal (50's to 70's mainly Jazz/Blues alphabetically)
4. Non vocal (80's to today all other alphabetically)
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