How do you organize your physical music collection?

sidewinder · 10-12-2009, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by AwwSugar

Exactly. I don't mind Last.fm as much, though, since I skip so many of those songs. They recommend some of the worst music to me. It's because of the fact that one band will have ten genres. And then I'll get recommended ten more bands with ten other genres. It's really a mess.

I was referring to listening to my own music/albums, which gets tracked on last.fm...not using their radio feature. So, I'm not going to skip my own music.

If something I play is already in their "database" in all lowercase, that's how it's going to show up.

Arya Stark · 10-12-2009, 03:37 PM

Oh, oh. I understand. ^_^ That sucks. xD

music_phantom13 · 10-13-2009, 07:22 PM

The music on my computer is alphabetical, however iTunes or lala does it for me. I know what I want to listen to, so digital music is never a problem. As for my records, it gets a bit more complicated. Music from the current year I keep separate, sorted by how much I like it. Outside that, I have music from the 70's, music from the 80's, and music from the 90's sorted in a combination of alphabetically and how much I like it. My favorite albums (excluding from this year) I keep separate.

NumberNineDream · 10-13-2009, 07:36 PM

V That's how it happens usually, the colors play a big role in this.

TammyJ · 10-13-2009, 07:40 PM

All my music is organized by artist then album ... i don't keep many single songs ... the ones i do have just kinda get lumped into the root of my Music folder ... i'm definitely an album kind of listener ...

Astronomer · 10-13-2009, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

V That's how it happens usually, the colors play a big role in this.

What do your colours mean? I also do colour-coding on my mac

NumberNineDream · 10-13-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

What do your colours mean? I also do colour-coding on my mac

Always nice to not be alone :P I got so happy when I discovered the color markings in mac, cause I used to do them on paper lol.

I use Red - Orange - Yellow, and each section has its own explanation:

Full Discographies Folder:

Red >> Listened to all their albums [The albums in that case are marked in Red]
Yellow >> Listened to the ones marked [As 'listen' I mean more than basic shallow listening]

Unfinished Discographies:

Red >> The discographies I got nearly finished
Orange >> My 60s Psych Artists
Yellow >> In case of empty folders in my discographies, I mark the ones I have in Yellow

M [or my scattered songs, but still in Artist folders]

Red >> The ones I should seek

What do your colors mean?

loveissucide · 10-13-2009, 08:28 PM

Chronological.

Grotesque Head · 10-13-2009, 08:36 PM

Hardly at all...

all the rubbish albums I don't like anymore go in a draw out of the way, and my CD shelf is just in a pretty random order - except some bands are vaguely grouped together from ages ago when I got half way through organizing them and then got bored. Also, there are rubber ducks amongst my CDs on my shelf - dunno why, but it looks good.

As for digital, just the basic alphabetical layout that iTunes does.

sidewinder · 10-14-2009, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

V That's how it happens usually, the colors play a big role in this.

You've got some capitalization issues going on there.

Personally when it comes to digital organization, it's just artist folder and album folders within that. I don't see a need to complicate it beyond that (and I'm not criticizing those that do). Comps are in a Compilations folder, with the title of the comp for each folder. I keep everything nice and organized in iTunes and my actual folders reflect that same organization.

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Grotesque Head Music Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: England Posts: 121	Hardly at all... all the rubbish albums I don't like anymore go in a draw out of the way, and my CD shelf is just in a pretty random order - except some bands are vaguely grouped together from ages ago when I got half way through organizing them and then got bored. Also, there are rubber ducks amongst my CDs on my shelf - dunno why, but it looks good. As for digital, just the basic alphabetical layout that iTunes does. __________________ Last.FM

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music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	The music on my computer is alphabetical, however iTunes or lala does it for me. I know what I want to listen to, so digital music is never a problem. As for my records, it gets a bit more complicated. Music from the current year I keep separate, sorted by how much I like it. Outside that, I have music from the 70's, music from the 80's, and music from the 90's sorted in a combination of alphabetically and how much I like it. My favorite albums (excluding from this year) I keep separate.

10-13-2009, 07:40 PM	#95 (permalink)
TammyJ Groupie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 20	All my music is organized by artist then album ... i don't keep many single songs ... the ones i do have just kinda get lumped into the root of my Music folder ... i'm definitely an album kind of listener ...