I have ~350 records sorted alphabetically (and chronologically for artists with multiple entries) in 4 categories (rock/pop, hiphop, jazz, soundtracks) with rock/pop being the biggest of these
thinking of rearranging them to form a top 350 of my collection, rating and ranking my collection
I'd do it for fun and to shake things up a bit, and while atm it's nice that friends can easily check what Neil Young records I have by going to Y, it'll perhaps be even more fun to have them offended when they find that Trans has been relegated to the lower shelves (or smth)
anyone tried this?
― niels, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:18 (eight years ago) link
what sort of person looks for neil young records?
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
it's be fun arrange the records so that the best ones are directly next to the record player, the merely good albums kind of trail off toward the hall, the meh ones are near the front door, and the worst ones are kind of casually flung next to a box marked "free records" outside by the garbage
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
i just want to bump this to draw attention to the first few words of my post just above, i did a great job
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
You did a good job, you stacked the letters in each word very neatly
My records mostly look like this, I dont remember what most of them are called but I do know that spring is coming
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/161566344572-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
― saer, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
it would be very easy for you to arrange your collection by color
― niels, Thursday, 31 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
By Pitchfork score, duh.
― MatthewK, Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
Old system, until this afternoon: - Collections for each decade, with each decade alphabetized.
New system:1. All my 5-star records are in a separate section on the top shelf, alphabetized.2. Jazz gets its own section. Though I may backtrack on this decision during the next re-org.3. Everything else alphabetized (I collated all the decades in a massive merge sort operation)
― enochroot, Monday, 13 September 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Seems reasonable, my mate has always advocated a separate section for the best stuff, the theory being it will encourage more listening of favorites over endless crate digging.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 13 September 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
sorted by whether or not the pile has been knocked flying recently.With most recent purchases on top or possibly most recently played.Always make sure you have more than one pile of cds around you and that most of them are obscured either by having other stuff piled on top of them or by the rest of the pile. So when you go to find something you are bound to find something else entirely.Keeps your listening fresh or not as the case may be.the Pollyanna system.
― Stevolende, Monday, 13 September 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
Idgi - if you organize by rating, don't you have to remember the rating of every record you own in order to find anything quickly?
― Taliban! (PBKR), Monday, 13 September 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
For records: Alphabetical by size (12", 10", 7"), and then one square dedicated to new purchases, old favorites, and passing fancies. That square gets wheedled back down to a handful every few weeks as it slowly fills up and spills over into the turntable area. Another two long shelves are "to be sold" LPs/12"s and 7"s, which are every so often sold and every so often re-evaluated and put back in the main collection. My wife's LPs are another shelf, and another section is absolute dreck I was given by friends who know I like records and which I should throw out but...
CDs: In boxes in the garage attic. Not convenient, but no real CD player anymore and no room in the house. Hoping to get a dedicated CD player again when we do some remodeling and regain some space, and then these will come back in.
Cassettes: So few left, but these are in two small boxes nears the LPs. Getting my old Aiwa refurbished so i can play these properly again, as I've purchased two cassettes so far this year (Poison Ruïn and Angel Bat Dawid) so maybe more to come.
― city worker, Monday, 13 September 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
Idgi - if you organize by rating, don't you have to remember the rating of every record you own in order to find anything quickly?― Taliban! (PBKR)
― Taliban! (PBKR)
Yes I do, but it gives me a chance to reevaluate each time I play an album.
Also, I have my entire collection rated in discogs, so I can always fall back on that.
― enochroot, Monday, 13 September 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link