5 equal size boxes to store all your records

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1

Some taxonomists are groupers, some are splitters, this is one for the groupers. Imagine if you were asked to split your music collection up into 5 boxes, but the boxes are all equal in size. List the labels of the boxes.

2

Actually, this is pretty much how I do have my music arranged.

  1. Classical: baroque/classical periods.
  2. Classical: romantic period.
  3. Classical: modern & miscellaneous.
  4. Musicals/soundtracks.
  5. Non-classical everything else.
3

Elton John

Classic Rock

Classical

Choirs

Country/Pop

4

Christmas& Billy Joel
GLAD
Musical Soundtracks
Michael W Smith, etc.
Rich Mullins, etc.
I’d have a very hard time dividing the last two boxes in a logical manenr–too much Christian Contemporary that I don’t listen to much.

5
  1. Music
  2. Music
  3. Music
  4. Music
  5. Music
6

I’d have to keep them in alpha order and divide evenly. Some letters are more populated than others, though (H for Emmylou Harris, S for Springsteen).

7

Andrew Lloyd Webber in English
Andrew Lloyd Webber non-English
Pre-ABBA, ABBA, Post-ABBA
Julian Lloyd Webber
Everything Else

And those better be some damn big boxes!

8

No genre really contains approximately 1/5 of my collection except classic rock. Everything else contains less than 1/5, unless you count Modern Rock as a genre in which case it contains about 3/5th or more. So it’s really difficult for me unless you subdivide my Modern Rock into subgenres that don’t really go together. My best categorization:

Classic Rock
Classical and Soundtracks
Classic Non-electronic Modern Rock (anything before 1992)
Contemporary Non-electronic Modern Rock (anything 1992 or after)
Electronica, hip-hop influenced modern rock, and everything else.

9

Alpha order was my first inclination as well, starting with (A-E, F-J, K-O, P-U, V-Z) and revising that based on letter popularity after initial filling when finding two of them nearly empty, one too full, and one overfilled.

10

They’d probably wind up as:

Records
Records
Records
Records
Records

If I were being careful and taking them from the shelf to boxes, it’d be more like

A-D
E-K
L-P (heh!)
Q-S
T-Z

by artist name, as that’s how they were shelved.

11

Grown Out Of It

Got Sick Of It

Never Really Liked It In The First Place

Empty (In The Car, Somewhere)

Empty (Transferred It To MP3)

12

Angry
Angry
Thoughtful
Sulky
Silly

I might have some trouble with CDs that split moods, though.

13

Mine was actually pretty easy:

1.) Garage Rock
2.) 70s Punk
3.) Post-70s Punk
4.) Urban & Modern Pop Music
5.) Jazz & pre-disco Pop Music

14

Alphabetical. Dividing it so it fits evenly in all five boxes.

I’m pretty OCD about my music collection. Physical and digital.

15

I don’t have a very big collection, and it could be divided pretty evenly like this:

Dwight Yoakam
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Robert Cray
Classic country
Misc. blues guitar