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Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:56
by RobF
8 12" Vinyl shelves:
1)Funk/soul/reggae/ska/rocksteady/dub etc.
2)Indie/leftfield guitar etc.
3)Punk/Hardcore/grindcore/crust etc.
4)Classics (Bowie, velvets, Cohen etc).
5)Industrial/Noise/Post-industrial/electronic ambient etc.
6)Sissies & related.
7)Soundtracks/Jazz.
8)Metal/thrash/doom/death/black etc
A shelf of 10"s of all kinds
+ 6 D.J. Boxes for my techno/breaks/U.K. Hip-Hop/ U.S. stuff.
2 7" shelves 1 Funk/soul/reggae/ska etc. 1 Punk/metal/industrial/indie etc.
and all my C.D.s in a big mouldering pile, as they deserve.
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 14:29
by DerekR
James Blast wrote:how do you organise your record collection?
On a server in a cupboard upstairs like
this <clicky>. CDs and vinyl are in the loft. The future's bright, the future's digital.
Oh, and one (actually two) of these to play 'em on.
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 15:20
by mik
"Main" bands get separate sections / shelves, ordered album/singles each chronologically.
All other stuff in alphabetical by band then chronologically.
"Current / recent listening has a spot near the hifi as I tend to listen to things for a while; you get in a zone sometimes.....
Slowly but surely moving to a complete digital solution.
As and when CD's get ripped (lossless) they get boxed up.
Most of my records are in boxes in the loft. I've got a mate who has access to a vacuum packer so they're all thick plastic vacuum sealed to stop them getting mouldy or damp.
I reckon in a year or so I'll just rip stuff to the PC and then stick it in the loft and do everything via media centre pc connected to the hifi using a pocket pc with wifi connection to act as the master remote control for the lot.
Getting the missus to figure out how to work it will be another matter, which is odd considering she's the one with the degrees and the MA....
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 15:52
by BillyBadBreaks
I have a PhD and am a complete technophobe!
What are these CDs everyone is talking about? Are they like 78s?
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 16:22
by pikkrong
1) Sisters official CDs
2) Sisters unofficial CDs and CDRs
3) other bands and artists
(and
4) vinyls, mostly Sisters official)
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 16:23
by ruffers
DerekR wrote:James Blast wrote:how do you organise your record collection?
On a server in a cupboard upstairs like
this <clicky>. CDs and vinyl are in the loft. The future's bright, the future's digital.
Cracking album that, thanks for the reminder
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 16:37
by DerekR
ruffers wrote:Cracking album that, thanks for the reminder
I chose 'O' cos I don't have that many 'O's, and it illustrated the point nicely (ie you could see the rest of the alphabet in the piccy). One Dove just seemed the natural choice
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 16:40
by BillyBadBreaks
Does anyone have one of those new fangled gizmos where I can play my wax Edison cylinders?
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 16:52
by nick the stripper
I use to keep them in alphabetical order, until it became too much of a hassle.
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 17:08
by boudicca
BillyBadBreaks wrote:Plus I have a pile of whit the fook was I thinking CDs
Oh yes, I've got one of them too.
Well, a plastic bag full of them to sell on t'Ebay.
You wouldn't want to know what's in it...
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 17:25
by timsinister
There's a pile of CDs, DVDs, and games at the foot of my bed.
There's a pile of vinyl at the top.
What more do you want?
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 17:38
by BillyBadBreaks
boudicca wrote:BillyBadBreaks wrote:Plus I have a pile of whit the fook was I thinking CDs
Oh yes, I've got one of them too.
Well, a plastic bag full of them to sell on t'Ebay.
You wouldn't want to know what's in it...
I do, I do! C'mon, let's trade horror stories.
Me first:
Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 17:52
by ruffers
"Organise" - I'm going to need to go and look that up in this context I think..
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 18:05
by timsinister
BillyBadBreaks wrote:
I do, I do! C'mon, let's trade horror stories.
Me first:
Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme
I feel another thread coming on! Nurse Mark, the screens!
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 21:11
by Brideoffrankenstein
My music has never been in any kind of order, I just remember where I put it last time or spend two hours looking for a specific one
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 21:16
by boudicca
BillyBadBreaks wrote:boudicca wrote:BillyBadBreaks wrote:Plus I have a pile of whit the fook was I thinking CDs
Oh yes, I've got one of them too.
Well, a plastic bag full of them to sell on t'Ebay.
You wouldn't want to know what's in it...
I do, I do! C'mon, let's trade horror stories.
Me first:
Vanilla Ice - To The Extreme
To be honest some of it's just too shameful to admit to.
My good taste has rarely failed me, but when it has done... oh boy!
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 22:12
by James Blast
I went out with a large chested maiden from Manchester (God I miss them) who filed her collection by the first letter.
The 'T' section was a pretty busy.
think - The Chameleons, The Jam, The Nolans, The Who...
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 22:23
by aims
Isn't it generally accepted practice to ignore a leading "The" when alphabetizing a list? (Obvious exception being "The The"
)
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 22:35
by smiscandlon
James Blast wrote:I went out with a large chested maiden from Manchester (God I miss them) who filed her collection by the first letter.
The 'T' section was a pretty busy.
think - The Chameleons, The Jam, The Nolans, The Who...
And to think I rolled my eyes when I found HMV filing the
El Mariachi DVD under
E.
Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 22:39
by James Blast
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 07:46
by pandemon
38 double G, BTW, I've never been happier
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 08:42
by timsinister
'nuff said.
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 10:42
by boudicca
I'd pity the poor woman...
Pathetic.
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 11:59
by hallucienate
Seeing as we're talking about digital storage. I've got most of my CDs ripped and I've got a PC with a bluetooth dongle. I'm using a smartphone app called
Bemused to remotely control my music. Works like a charm and is better than a normal remote as it doesn't need to be line-of-sight
Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 12:05
by markfiend
Well, digitally speaking, my CDs that I've got round to mp3-ing (and all of my downloaded mp3s) are on my iPod and backed up on CD-Rs and DVD-Rs
