The hardship...

[venta]

Today I am working from home.

This means that instead of the nice, big, fat mp3 collection which lives on my work hard drive, I'm actually having to listen to, like, CDs. And I have to get up and walk across the room when I want to change CD. And I have to actually find the physical CD I want - which really isn't easy. I think I may have to pretend I haven't been mocking people with alphabetically indexed CD collections for years, and sort my own out...

(mp3s at home really aren't that practical, for various reasons)

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I have a sorted-by-style CD collection at home. Not only does this make things findable but also means that I often go for a particular one and spot something else I'd forgotten about but would rather listen to.

I also claim it's less sad than alphabetical ! <grin>

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. Have you ever heard me trying to work out what style to describe music as ?

I did try to group things approximately together a while back, but the categories were too broad and it didn't really help.

Maybe I should sort them by spine colour - would be pretty, at least :)

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this is a tricky one, as you can't use the Bodleian "sort them by size" algorithm for CDs ...

I use the "sort by style" option myself - baroque, classical, romantic, etc., then within that, chronologically by composer. This works for me but many people would probably not see the "natural beauty and elegance" of my solution. There's a shelf at the end reserved for "popular" stuff.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Not only does this make things findable

s/only/even/ ; maybe by you, everyone else is screwed

I also claim it's less sad than alphabetical!

s/sad/scalable/ ; Oh ye of little CD collection.

OK, I admit it, my CD collection is alphabetised. And within each artist, it's sorted by date of release. And I'm not ashamed.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Archetypal problem though: Does the Best of Deborah Harrie and Blondie go under H or B?

And filing Bat out of Hell under L is technically correct, but looks bloody silly. I suspect that few people will admit to this problem.

And then you get the other annoyances like Madonna and Kylie.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

And filing Bat out of Hell under L is technically correct

No it isn't. "Meat" is not a given name, and "Loaf" is not a surname.

Madonna is in no sense an issue - most people don't even know her surname. I've a suspicion it begins with C, though.

Kylie is an issue if you make it one, but since she started her career as "Kylie Minogue" I don't think I'd be any more troubled by the indexing than I would be by the fact of owning one of her albums.

Debbie Blondy and Harborough I will concede is a difficult one.