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Kingcrimsonprog ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 582 |
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Anybody else here get really anal and specific about how they organize their music ?
With phyical cds, I used to like to arrange them first by priority of chronological order, within band, arranged beside similar sounding bands or shared members, within sub-genre, within genre, Now I've moved to chronological order within band, by alphabetical. In iTunes, for double albums I remove CD number and reorder the tracks so its all one album of 25 tracks or whatever. I use the comments to add specific things things like 'club,' 'David Bottrill,' 'East Coast,' 'Bay Area,' 'Featuring such and such a guest artist,' 'Cover of such and such an artist,' and then create dozens of smart-playlists based around the comments sections, and those smart playlists are arranged in folders. The folders are based around producers, statistics, situational, greatest hits, popularity, decades (eg. 70s, 80s, 90s,), my library over time (eg, when specifically I got each album and what I could listen to back in 2003 or whatever), Covers of specific bands (eg. Judas Priest covers, Iron maiden Covers, Black Sabbath Covers) Most importantly, I rename every single album with '01, 02, 03,' in front of it, eg. '01. Show No Mercy,' and '11. God Hates Us All,' so that they are always chronological and can never slip into alphabetical. When I have all of them renamed and commented on, I go and 'create mp3 version,' and delete the old version, so that if my itunes ever crashes again, all of this can be set up again in 1 hour instead of 10 weeks. Anybody else do anything similar ? |
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J-Man ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7032 |
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I doubt it.
![]() But I do have a particular way of organizing my vast CD collection. I organize them alphabetically by artist, and then within each artist category I organize their discography chronologically. I don't care that much about how my MP3 library looks, but I am VERY particular about my CD collection.
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adg211288 ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Black Metal, Prog/AG Teams Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 22025 |
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Exactly the same as me.
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Stooge ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator/Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Whitby, ON, CAN Status: Offline Points: 5637 |
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I don't have the space to be very organizational about my CDs/vinyl. It's a pain to re-sort them when my albums are literally stacking on top of each other.
![]() If I had the space, I'd get some nice shelving for my CD's and organize by alphabetical order and then by chronological order. I don't need to make any hard decisions about what genre something goes in.
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Catcher10 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Location: Emerald City Status: Offline Points: 172 |
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When I was a little kid
![]() Then the CD came along and I just filed them by artist......and then the family came and it all went to krapp, no time to spend on the music collection.
Now with digital, I use Zune software which I LOVE as I can change the metadata to my own liking. For example I generally change the genre on everything I download to fit my tastes. My vinyl I still file the same way......Artist/release date, in boxes I make to fit perfectly....storage boxes online are too expensive.
So I guess I am coming full circle as I am acting like that kid again.........which is really fun!
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Andyman1125 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Location: Rhode Island Status: Offline Points: 2068 |
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I don't care about my meager physical collection being organized, because most of the time I listen to my physicals as digital files.
However, my mp3 collection is arranged by sub-sub (and in some cases sub-sub-sub) genre, alphabetically, with each folder and file name in a specific format. So yea, you could say I'm OCD.
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Andyman1125 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Location: Rhode Island Status: Offline Points: 2068 |
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Zune FTW!!
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Triceratopsoil ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4197 |
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My iTunes is organized but that's about it. I guess with music I'm considerably less OCD than I am about everything else.
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Any Colour You Like ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 359 |
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I used to be serial-killer OCD about organising my itunes, then I got a life.
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Colt ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 6668000 |
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![]() In which case I have OCD and proudly lost my life to music decades ago. Unfortunately, I have just lost an argument with my better half to set aside another wall for shelving to house my next line of album purchases. C'est la vie! |
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UMUR ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors & Omissions Team / Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 18139 |
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...oh man I know that situation
![]() I have several parallel systems to organize my music and they are probably not easy to understand for anyone but myself. My vinyls are placed in alphabetical order. My CDs are placed in four catagories which are then put in system alphabetically:
Progressive rock/metal
Metal
hard rock/metal
anything else
But since I have a lot of CDs I haven�t placed yet I also have stacks of CDs in my bedroom, by my working place and in a closet.
If I ever get around to it, I think I�ll just place them alphabetically. The genre division don�t work anymore.
In addition to physical media I have quite a lot of digital releases. They are sorted alphabetically.
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Warthur ![]() MMA Metal Reviewer ![]() ![]() Metal Reviewer Joined: 26 Nov 2010 Status: Offline Points: 136 |
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I have an honest to goodness spreadsheet I use to keep track of what I've got - I also use it to keep track of what video games, books, and DVDs/Blu-Rays I own. (There is a point to this beyond simple OCD - setting it up this way means that if I lend something out to people, I can note it down on the spreadsheet, so I always know who's got what.).
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Wilytank ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Location: Pencil-vainea Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
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I organize my music by band and by the band's chronological releases. Don't exactly care beyond that.
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Kingcrimsonprog ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 582 |
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Ha, I have something similar. Less organized than a spread sheet, but it is a record of my stuff http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/the-collection/ |
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UMUR ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors & Omissions Team / Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 18139 |
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I generally don�t lend out anything from my collection.
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Stooge ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator/Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Whitby, ON, CAN Status: Offline Points: 5637 |
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I never lend out my music much any more (except to my brother usually). Unfortunately, the majority of people I know just download illegally what they want most of the time ![]() My problem comes with DVDs. I had a friend who would always return one I'd lend him in much worse shape than when I initially lend it in. I'm even having DVD problems in my own house. My younger sister would often borrow something, and I could never find it after then. Right now, I'm still looking for an old Horror film DVD-set, The Omega Man, and Return Of The Jedi
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Stooge ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator/Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Whitby, ON, CAN Status: Offline Points: 5637 |
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I also have a spreadsheet, but for my hard copies of music only. I'll start up a DVD file one day, which will be especially useful for when I lend something out.
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rushfan4 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors and Omissions Team Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 7485 |
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My CDs are in alphabetical order by artist and then alphabetical order by album. I am constantly working on entering my CDs in a Microsoft Access database. I entered them A to Z, but everytime I get finished with Zs I have to go back and enter my new purchases, so I've never really caught up and gotten everything entered.
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Triceratopsoil ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4197 |
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my old drummer still has my Magma dvd...
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Andyman1125 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Location: Rhode Island Status: Offline Points: 2068 |
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Dude, you've been talking about that since like March.
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