Well, while we await further news from The Chemical Brothers, I ask you: How do you organize your music?

I know that it's a dumb question, but many people has a strict way to order his music and it's nice to share our ways.

My cds collection it's sorted by alphabetical name of the band and year that the cd was released.

And my "virtual" collection it's sorted by: D:\Music\Genere\Artist\(year)Album\xx.Song

Normal style?

Please don't kill me, I just post this to know more about each other.

My CDs are sorted by artist/year
For my mp3s it's Artist\Album\track.mp3 or for artists where I have lots of stuff Artist\[Albums|Singles & EPs|Mixes|Live|...]\Album\track.mp3

I recently reorganised all my vinyl, it had got completely messed up

I sorted it over 4 shelves into rough decades

50's+60's / late 60's+70's / late 70's + 80's / 90's and beyond

then sorted into artist groups within those blocks, and ordered in some sort of order of genre

one of the most fun/geeky evenings I'd had in a while

Fuckin hell, this has to be the most boring thread I have ever seen.

hahahaha!

have you read high fidelity?

You mean seen Ben?
Or is there a book too?
Loved the film - especially where he's djing and blasts the Chems!

JacksRevenge, on 04 April 2012 - 3:42 PM, said:

http://bit.ly/HpQWHK



good movie though

@iguanapunk: lol, yes, maybe you're right, but when a "Chems album period" ends, there's no much to talk about... I repeat, I made this for know more each other, look Ben Glass, he has a great way to order his collection, and maybe one of us can use his way. Sorry for boring you.

I worked in a record store for years so I am anal about all my music being in alphabetical/chronological order. I am more lax than I used to be but it still drives me nuts when stuff is out of order or I go looking for something and it's not where it should be! I recently re-sorted and moved the majority of my cd's off my book shelves and into a large cabinet under my television (with the exception of my Chems and U2 collections). Most stuff I have ripped anyway and on my mp3 player on-the-go, so my cd's were more or less gathering dust sitting on the shelves. But even still it's all sorted alpha/chrono

My classical CD's a an entirely different matter. I don't have very many but I amassed a few during my record store days. Sorted by composer, fine. But when it comes to organizing chronologically by recording date and conductor, I lose all hope.

how do i order music?

medium rare, with fries on the side.

arf.

Great thread !
I spend hours ordering my music, I love to do it, and it's helpfull for dj-set.
Albums are sorted by genre/artist (& mood)/album (& label).

ex : Electro - Electrorock - Barré / Boys Noize & Erol Alkan (Acid - Maximal - Techno - Décalé) / Waves-Death Suite 12'' (Boysnoize)

With the year et the cover in tags.
Most of them registered in discogs (2314 exactly). One days I hope a "chemicalmat junior" will be happy to recover this

Geek geek geek...

CD : Genre ("Rock", "Electro", "Hip Hop / Rap", "Soundtrack" & "Pop & other") => Artist alphabetical => Release date

Vinyl : Artist

Digitalshit : PC => Genre => Artist alphabetical => Date , Laptop => iTunes

My CD's and Vinyls were once sorted by artist/chronological but now they are a mess. I have everything ripped to my home theatre PC, all details loaded into my own database with a touch screen for browsing and choosing. Main view is by artist alphabetically, then album chronologically. I can also reverse the chronological so it's showing newest first, or I can load up all the newest stuff in the database. For large collections like the Chems I have them listed by albums, singles, lives, dj sets.

Ben Glass, on 04 April 2012 - 5:01 AM, said:

I organize my mp3's by genre, then by alphabetical. Cd's and vinyl are clusterfucked....except for my chemical stuff!

Mostly thru play.com but I find myself using amazon.co.uk more often cause of lower prices en faster shipment.

Uhm wait, what's the question?

Joslyn, on 06 April 2012 - 10:24 AM, said:

Play.com offer cashback through Quidco. Sign up using my link: http://www.quidco.com/user/1732308/ I've made loads of free money from Quidco, I don't know how I survived without it for all these years!

Still, I do tend to stick to Amazon.co.uk but I thought i'd try Zavvi to purchase Orbital's double edition of Wonky as it was 5p cheaper and got 33p cashback but they sent me an email the day I was expecting it through the letterbox saying "it's out of stock". BSTRDS.

This thread is a touch more interesting now. No need to thank me, guys.

alphabetical on artist name. if i have several albums by the artist i sort them by year.

Right now i have 350+ CD's. For a moment i was quite happy with that number but then i started calculating.. $.


about ordering: i order most CD's at www.wowHD.com (formaly known as CDWoW.)
They often sell chems records for around 5 euro and supply a lot of vouchers. right now they are a bit expensive but there has been a huge sale recently.

maybe we can open a topic with links to sites that sell chems albums for reasonable prices. I still need Brotherhood for the second CD. but can't seem to find it for a price i'm willing to pay.

Cool topic.

I also spent some years working in a record store, which helps explain this organizational obsession. Get ready for a strange post...

I have about 500 CDs left. Non-electronic artists are grouped together, as are soundtracks and compilations. I then have a section specifically for electronic music, which includes a small sub-section at the end of 80's and 90's remix singles (stuff I don't listen to but keep around anyway). The main electronic section is pretty diverse, including the usuals as well as artists like Enigma and Delerium, and altogether makes up about half of the collection. These sit in a cabinet that hold about 300 titles.

I then have a second unit for featured discographies of my favorite artists, with highest rotation collections in the front. Why, yes, The Chemical Brothers ARE top shelf.

Soundtracks produced or composed by specific artists will go with the artist, such as Hanna or Trent Reznor's Natural Born Killers production. On rare occasion I will do something similar with compilations, such as the notorious Chemical Reaction CD

Every section of the entire thing is alphabetical 0-9, A-Z. I then order them chronologically left to right: Hey Boy Hey Girl singles is in front of Surrender. I follow this method for every subcategory of my entire collection (even the "feature wall").

My vinyl 12" crates were organized by BPM with favorites toward the front, but I did have one "hot" crate that would always contain my best stuff for "travel easy " nights.

My MP3 collection is a mess. Over the years I have changed my naming convention so many times and never cleaned it up. Fixing it is actually this year's "resolution" project. It's going slowly but I'm giving myself the full year to avoid burnout.

I also have 5 "books" of burned CDs buried in storage. Not sure why I keep these souvenirs from my CD-DJ era, but I can't imagine how much crap I burned at 192 or 256 back in the day. I'm embarrassed to admit I spun with some of this stuff, but for a short time, the original Napster changed my life.

The main collection is currently a mess since we are prepping for a big move. I CAN laugh at it but am very uncomfortable when it becomes...disorganized. My family and I are starting to notice a lot of autistic tendencies in me that were never diagnosed. I live a normal life, but yeah, I get weird about my music and toy collections. Yeah...definitely a little Rain Man in me.

mp3tag will be your best friend in sorting this out. it can load data from amazon and discogs. it has a scripting function to create appropiate filenames. i use it before i import to itunes. ( i let itunes put everything in the music folder)

good luck man!

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

mippio, on 04 April 2012 - 6:10 PM, said:

Would you like a re-mixed drink of good ol' tracks as an appetizer?