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

[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.