How Do You Organize Your Music?

If you have not already, read Nick Hornby's book, High Fidelity. The movie adaptation of that book is not bad either. The main character goes through some, well, issues around organizing his LP's. Great book! Jack Black is hilarious in the film.

Marco

Thomasedison beat me to the High Fidelity reference that proghead mentioned. Seriously though if anyone into records has not seen that movie they should be ashamed. Plus it was probably the last good movie John Cusack has starred in. He's been in some stinkers for almost 10 years now. And to all you classical collectors...just looking at the headache of how to organize those records does nothing to make me want to get into classical music any deeper. Most of the classical titles I have are filed under Reich, Stockhausen, Satie, Varese, etc.

As I'm disorganized the best system for me is a simple one. I have one of those IKEA cubed wall units where each cube represents a letter of the alphabet. The key to making this work is NOT to organize alphabetically within each letter as it's way easier to put albums back on the shelf at the end instead of trying to find the exact spot.

This sometimes forces me to browse through sixty or seventy albums to find the one I want, but during the process I often see and take out another old album that I haven't played for years.

This is a fine question.

Thanks, Mariasplunge.

I personally don't have a huge music library yet, but I'm trying to set myself up for success by starting on the right foot. Right now I have the records that I've cleaned so far organized alphabetically by artist, then alphabetically by album. The records that still need to be cleaned (hundreds and hundreds...) are loosely organized by importance of getting cleaned. I constantly have an "on deck" section, and I'll pick whatever strikes my mood from that pile to clean.

CDs are alphabetical by artist, and CDs with more than one artist are filed by the artist that I like more.

-Dusty