Mild OCD? Arrange your CDs alphabetically? HELP………………

If you have listed the CDs on your computer using excel or access the sort feature should arrange them in alphabetical order or iTunes will list them by gendre and alphabetical order, apologies if this has been mentioned.

When the small set of shelves are full, I check they’re all on itunes and they go in the big box in the garage. It always used to be Artist by surname/band starting with numbers and with compliations after all other artists.

I wonder what the date was when we reached “peak household data volume” I imagine it was sometime shortly after they stopped selling VHS casettes

Rip all your CDS to the comp, then sell them all on ebay while they’re still worth something, job done!

Alphabetical Order, Numbers before the letters (in numerical order), compilations afterwards by genre.

Anything else is just wrong.

Pretty much the same as DrRSwank for me, although the never splitting letters over two shelves thing sounds impractical.

There are plenty of grey areas and tricky exceptions though!

For starters – solo albums and side projects from an artist best known for their work in a group – e.g. Thom Yorke and Philip Selway only have one solo album each so are both filed with Radiohead, but Robert Plant’s solo work is sufficiently substantial and different so gets a separate section from Led Zep (although Page & Plant collaboration *does* go with LZ, in chronological order). Usually once a side project has a couple of albums it can stand alone – e.g. Grinderman now lives separately from Nick Cave (+/- the Bad Seeds).

Also, live albums go chronologically in order of when the concert took place rather than when the record was released. Single artist compilations are generally ordered by the period of recording rather than release date, e.g. Marvin Gaye “Early Years” compilation comes before all of his albums.

Classical is obviously separate, and ordered by composer, then by work. Anything else is crazy. I’ve just decided to take all the comedy and spoken word out to its own section too, it’s been mixed in for too long. Still undecided about whether to leave jazz in though…

I used to have my CDs chronologically in the order i bought them. Now they are in a box in my wardrobe.

So where do I put this?
Under ‘M’ – the title is “mu-ziq”. It’s a pun, you
see

Yeah, I know *that*. But this would mean inserting a greek character into a sequence ordered by the Roman alphabet. Which seems Wrong to me.
😉

@ harry the spider – been done before, mates vinyl, previously arranged in order of year of release

Put the wrong cds in all the boxes – that way it won’t matter what order they’re in

oops