How organized are you with your music

Brauser, Any chance you can post some pictures of your collection? It sounds impressive. I would love to see them.

I have used 5 of the giant CD megachangers for storage and a Mac based software to catalog the music since 2001. This allows you to find anything instantly by "search", sends a command to the relevant player and plays the track - all of this gets round the fiddly jewel-case problems and physical filing of the jewel-cases (ever feel like an assembly line worker at a factory when listening to music - you know what they pay DJ's to do - well the system gets rid of that feeling).

Currently I am burning lossless to iTunes and storing the lossless on a NAS 1 TB Raid1 network hard drive - this will take me about two months to complete the transition.

I keep my vinyl, which I only started re-collecting a year ago, in alphabetical order. All of the records in MoFi sleeves, and the jackets in a re-sealable plastic outer liners. Only about 200.

SACD's and DVD-Audio's are in a large CD folder, no cases, in alphabetical order. About 100.

CD's are banished to the attic or somewhere else, I am not really sure where. I have ripped them all to Lossless files, and store them on a Drobo/Droboshare network storage. It's a 4 SATA hot swap-able array, with internal backup, and infinite (well how ever big 4 SATA drives can get) storage. Not cheap, but pretty much idiot proof.

I am in the process of deciding which Analog Digital Converter to buy to rip my vinyl to lossless digital files. I'm thinking of the Korg MR2000s.

Brauser, any chance you can post some pictures of your collection?

Indeed! What a tease...

Funny, I was just thinking about how super-organized my CD's are compared to my LP's. About two years ago, I ripped all my CD's to a hard disk on a server. Since then, I use music manager software (SqueezeServer) in which I can search for titles, artists, dates, or whatever to find exactly what I seek. It really opened the door for me to explore my CD collection. For instance, if I search for Margo Timmons (lead singer for Cowboy Junkies) I discover that she sang a cut on Leo Kotke's "Big Bad Boy" album called "Pepe Hush." Never knew she was on that album!

On the other hand, my LP's are alphabetically organized, but if I want to find Renaissance band music, I'm screwed. Gotta get some structure/database going (see my other thread, posted about the same time you posted yours).

Organization is one of the keys to enjoyment as your collection grows. Otherwise you end up only playing about 5% of your collection and don't realize some of the other great stuff you have. Or at least that's been my experience.