[Closed] Mild OCD? Arrange your CDs alphabetically? HELP..................

War

Wayne...

Alphabet-Shmalphabet.

Colour order. Black spine at the top then the colours of the spectrum and white at the bottom. You know it makes sense.

I'd do it by the composer or musician, otherwise you'll have albums by the same person all over the show.

So Wayne or Jeff 🙂

Mild OCD? Mild OCD?

Bit more than mild

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Harry_the_Spider - Member

Alphabet-Shmalphabet.

Colour order. Black spine at the top then the colours of the spectrum and white at the bottom. You know it makes sense.

You sick weirdo.
Tell me you're not serious?

How in the name of Jesus H Corbett does that work then?

Say I decide I want to listen to 'Dana sings the ballads of Motorhead'.
First I have to remember the colour of the spine, then work out where on the colour spectrum it falls, then try and find it?
No way am I bothering with that - a complete self-abusers' outing.
And you're allowed to organise a bike race?

My initial thoughts are that it has to be alphabetised by Wayne, as he is the artist.
Surnames of course, first name alphebetisation would just be too absurd to contemplate.

[b]However[/b], this means I'll have to rearrange West Side Story under B for Bernstein.

WHO'S GOING TO ROCK ME TO SLEEP TONIGHT? THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.

The way I did it is by artist, on first name. So WotW would be under 'J'. Reasoning is that it avoids ambiguity on names that aren't really names; eg, if you organise by surname, should Jethro Tull be 'J' or 'T'? If you're going to do it, consistency is key.

My reasoning for alphabetising, incidentally, isn't OCD; it's so that if something is missing, I can make an educated guess as to what it is, and thus who I might have lent it to. Plus, it makes it easier to find things quickly.

Some people organise by genre. That way lies madness.

Wimmins logic dictates that the artist's name is used. Nothing wrong with a bit of order ... until CD storage unit is full and the floor gets used. 😳

More muzak, less faffing. 🙂

White spine IIRC. Somewhere near the bottom.

Alphabetically by artists surname, so filed under Wayne. That was an easy one! Mine are filed alphabetically and in also in four genres, that's the bit I probably shouldn't have done.

But Cougar, Jethro Tull is the name of the band, not the individual artist, so it goes under J, obviously!

CG & Anna, everything else is alphabetised under surname, artist or name of band.
Then further split by date of release for each recording, obviously.

It's just the shows that are causing me trouble.
Operas are arranged by composer, so I suppose shows must follow the same convention.

Alphabetically by artists surname, so filed under Wayne. That was an easy one!

Mine are filed alphabetically and in also in four genres, that's the bit I probably shouldn't have done.

Genre? There's more than one genre for muzak? Nobody told me!

Alphabetic by artists surname or name of the band/group with compilations should right at the end.

Any other method = wrong.

jota180 - Member

Mild OCD? Mild OCD?

Bit more than mild

Says a man who has his conrods & crank throws spaced completely illogically.

I'd have to get a 120 (if I could reach the floor), just for reasons of symmetry. 🙂

I was told to ignore "The" when arranging by artist; ended up giving away my copies of Soul Mining and Infected.

IGMC

DaveyBoyWonder - Member

with compilations should right at the end

Ah, I can see where you've gone wrong there:
If a compilation has a name, ie 'North: Sound of the Dance Underground' or 'Bullshit Detector' it's filed by name alphabetically.

Un-named compilations go under 'v' for various.

Artist name.

So 'J' for Jeff.

It was a problem just like this that led me to throw all my "the the" albums in the bin during a fit of librarian rage...

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ah, now - compilations ! (mine are after z fwiw)

wasnotwas - stick on the top shelf next to the the ? (or ask wwaswas, he'll know)

Genre? There's more than one genre for muzak? Nobody told me!

Course there is - there's 2 genres, good music & crap music.

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.

Alphabetise by Wayne's or War?

So you've presumably been happily alphabetising all afternoon & have only now considered artist or album title as your criteria?!

You don't have an iPod 😯

Personally i'd file it under "S" for soundtrack then "W" for war of the worlds, but i did have a good few thousand cd's before i ripped them to hard disc.

get a toddler.....all CD filing problems solved. just retrieve them from the toilet bowl / kitchen cupboards / toybox as and when you need them...

Alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by release date for multiple releases by one artist.

so Dig Your Own Hole would come under C for Chemical Brothers, but after Exit Planet Dust.

I'd be next to 'Weekend Players' - ww is an abbreviation of weekendworrier 🙂

I assume that the OP has checked that the cd would be in a different place whichever classification he uses, otherwise this is all a bit of a waste of time. 😉

PrinceJohn - Member

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.

Alphabetise by Wayne's or War?

So you've presumably been happily alphabetising all afternoon & have only now considered artist or album title as your criteria?!

Nah.

Merging two collections into one - mine is alphabetised by artist surname/compilation name - APART from shows, which I appear to have arranged by name of show rather than composer.
HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO STUPID ALL THESE YEARS?!?

Her collection isn't arranged at all.
She will learn.

tails - Member

You don't have an iPod?

Yep - makes a nice noise - not really music though, is it? 🙂

athgray - Member

I assume that the OP has checked that the cd would be in a different place whichever classification he uses, otherwise this is all a bit of a waste of time.

Mate was in a band called 'Wasp Factory'.
I've got a couple of their CD's 🙂

Don't forget that Jeff Wayne is Jeffry. Jeff Lynne will be a Jeffrey and if you have Jeff Beck it'll be a Geoffrey.
If you're not going to do it properly, don't bother starting.

Her collection isn't arranged at all.
She will learn.

I tried this once, it remained in order for a while, then it slowly de-alphabetised itself...

PrinceJohn - Member

Her collection isn't arranged at all.
She will learn.

I tried this once, it remained in order for a while, then it slowly de-alphabetised itself...

Although I bet she remained absolute adamant that "I come before U".

artist surname, forename, year of release.

Yeah, it's that easy.

Mrs aa takes hours to find a cd, me...seconds.

As stated above, i also ordered mrs aa's cd's for her but she cant keep it in order.

I do it by surname except for compilations which are under V for various and are subsequently in alphabetical order by album title.

ww is an abbreviation of weekendworrier

(err, no offence, like)

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all albums by the same artist together in chronological order. Where the artists are relative to each other doesn't matter, but the most played have to be the easiest to get to.

So I have CDs by New Model Army, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Sisters Of Mercy, All About Eve & The Mission fairly close together. not exactly alphabetical though.

Most Most Played tend to be in the car

Whatever matches your phone / iPod, otherwise you search for 'The Beatles' under B in your phone (based on your CD library) and then have to scroll through loads of other T's

I used to arrange mine by genre, co-locating related genres horizontally and vertically... When this became too difficult to achieve physically without compromising in one way or another, I turned to alphabetical arrangement. Now they are sorted by first letter of band/group name, surname of solo artist or composer if 'classical'.

My vinyl is loosely grouped by genre. Over time, things get less organised. Looking for the desired album inevitably leads to the rediscovery of something long unheard.

Which is nice.

But Cougar, Jethro Tull is the name of the band, not the individual artist, so it goes under J, obviously!

True, and I know this. Bad example maybe.

As stated already. CDs should be stored alphabetically by artist (either band name as in the Jethro Tull example, or by surname as in the Jeff Wayne example, or by known name as for the likes of Prince or Adele).

Multiple albums by the same artist must be in album release date order earliest to the left.

CDs must be picture side up.

And the cd must be correctly oriented so that the writing is the right way up.

You can never split an alphabetical segment across two shelves, so all the G's must be on one shelf for instance.

CDs are only ever out of the shelf when they are being played. The cd case must be placed neatly on top of the stereo.

CDs that you have brought, but not ripped to iTunes must not be filed. They must be left by the stereo until they are added to iTunes at which point they can be added to the shelves.

I do OCD properly. You lot are amateurs.......

DrRS**** - are you me?