1) Your CD’s
Stored in my study on shelves.
Alphabetically by the following genres:
Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop/R&B (by far the majority)
*Classical
Blues
Tv & Movie Soundtracks
My wife’s *(can’t have her cd’s contaminating mine )
However, everything is on iTunes and generally that’s how we listen to them.
2) Your LP’s (assuming you have enough of them to organize)
Stored in random order in the attic.
Still trying to find room in my new house for the record player.
3) Your Tapes (if you have enough of them)
I now only have two tapes - but no tape player.
4) Your musical DVD’s
In amongst my regular DVD’s under the music DVD genre.
Currently consists of one David Bowie DVD.
I think my folks have my LPs, somewhere. Most of them involved Seseme Street and Winnie the Pooh, oh and the Tiffany record I begged for when I was 10, so no big loss there.
The tapes are in a box in my closet. Tiffany aside, I wasn’t into music enough to want to own it until I was a freshman in high school. I bought perhaps 20 tapes (and made about as many mix tapes) before moving onto CDs as a HS senior.
And the CDs are in various racks all over. There’s no particular order to the CDs, though the cases to the ones actually in my 25-disk changer are usually in the rack nearest it. In the past I’ve organized by: date purchased (though I gave that up before High Fidelity came out), by case color, and by artist. None of them struck me as having a point so now I don’t organize them at all. As for genres… say 90% rock/alternative/indie from the past 15 years, 5% soundtrack, 5% and “other” like Eminem, The Smithereens, and Deana Carter.
My MP3 collection is more organized, though. Songs I rip off my cds aside, I acquire about 100 new MP3s a month, and for about six months each I keep them in a folder labeled with the rest of that month’s songs. After that they end up in the general music folder. Reason being, by the six-month mark I’m usually done obsessing over a song (usually) so I don’t need to keep it handy in order to put it on a cd anymore.
The LPs are in alpha order by artist, except for bway musicals and classical, which are by play name and composer.
The tape cassettes are in no order at all, although one side may relate to the other side.
CDs are in alpha order by artist, in pop, but Garcia* is with GD, and all Clapton is with Clapton.
Jazz CDs are by artist, but all Grisman* is under Grisman. Four Grisman/Garcias are under Grisman.
Classical CDs are by composer, except for Ma, Stern, Battle, and Menuhin.
Some CDs elude categories. Meyer/O’Connor/Ma, for example. I’m still looking for a copy of the Edgar Meyer Trout Variations. Where the heck do you put Gurrufia, or the Masters of the Andean Flute?
I’ve pretty much gone digital, so my CDs/LPs are on about seven or eight big shelves in no particular order.
When I was listening mostly to CDs, I’d organize them now and then. For years I’d sort them by genre, then alphabetical by artist/composer, then chronological. At some point, though, I decided that genre distinctions were arbitrary and academic, so I’d just order all of them alphabetically by artist, then chronologically.
It led to some strange bedfellows, too. Hasil Adkins next to Lily Afshar? The Pixies next to John Pizzarelli? Tchaikovsky next to They Might Be Giants?
Cd’s alphabetical
no tapes (what the heck worst media format ever)
lost all my lp’s to a minor flood.
that said like one of the above posters I rip everything to my pc as soon as I get it home, its infinitly easier and very accessable, I can load my entire list into winamp and hit shuffle and it will run for well over a week straight without stopping.
No, it wasn’t a necessary ingredient in your response, unless it figured into how you organized your stuff. I happen to have mine with Jazz and Other, simply because the Other category is a hodge-podge of other genres with nothing really big enough to require further breakdown. But it was nice of you to share that additional info. Thanks.
Zeldar , thanks for being so accomodating and I hope I didn’t hijack your thread. All of my cd’s are alphabetical by artist but I do seperate them by musicals. I have minimal cassettes, and they are mostly Christmas music.
I do think a thread about Dopers’ musical genre tastes would be nice, if it hasn’t already been done.
Did you check out the link in the OP? It’s not as specifically a poll of Dopers’ Genre preferences as you might want, but it does give a clue about the ones who replied to the thread.
Why don’t you start a thread of your own with a more specific question? I’m curious about that issue, too.
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