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>

[diffrentcolours]

Depending on available bandwidth, you could access your mp3 collection at work from home, with the appropriate bits of technology?

Then again, I have most of my CDs ripped to Ogg Vorbis at home and at work.

[venta.livejournal.com]

See original comment:

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

:)

Mainly because: my laptop speakers are rubbish, and I don't have any decent headphones at home. My stereo's too cheap and nasty to have a decent aux. in, either. There are other minor problems like the work I'm doing at the moment thrashes the HD and makes Winamp skip.

Not insoluble problems, any of them. But annoying.

[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 :)

[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.

[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.

[(Anonymous)]

And how many times have you turned down the offer of a new system, with decent aux and speakers??????

[venta.livejournal.com]

Not at all - if you remember, I always claimed I'd get decent separates once I had a job. Sadly, I still don't have the space to put such a thing in :)