organize my cd collection

I ordered a CD cabinet like the one I had when I was married. It has arrived and is unpacked. Now to find a place for it, gather my CDs and get organizing!

A-M is in order. That’s really my goal for the year. It’ll probably be 2010 before you see me here again, unless I make notes about what CDs I got rid of. For the rest of my CDs, I basically need to not mix them in with A-M and consistently put them up, all of them.

I have completed 1/2 of my goal for the year. If I get past J this year, great. If not, well at least I can say I made a solid start. I think I’m going to weed out from the organized book(s). It’ll be easier to know, for example, that I listed to Deltron when Deltron has a specific spot where it goes. Trying other ways, I forget what I’ve listened to and what’s just up next. My book was slightly too small to fit all of my A-E CDS so I’ve moved on to another book. I think that one thing this project is going to show me is just how many CDs I own!

Tonight, I did A & B. It’s a start.

One of my goals, resolutions?, for the year is to begin the organizing. I’m hoping to get through A-M but realize most CDs will fall in that category so I’m forgiving of myself for only getting to J or whatever. In the nearer future, I’d like to get through E. Let the organizing begin!

Okay, I’m gonna buy shelving units, and then organize the CDs in alphabetical order by artist, going left to right. Artists with english names come first, then artists with Russian names, since it’s a different alphabet.

Then for each artist, I’m going to organize the CDs in order of year released. If two CDs from the same artist come from the same year, I will organize them in logical order of which came first (e.g. if there was a tour following the release of an album, the live album from the tour would come after the actual album). You get it.

Finally, I will make sure that inside each CD case, the CD is rotated with the text going left to right perfectly, not at an angle or anything.

That’s pretty much it.

i started to organize it into alphabetical order, but there was no way i would be able to keep it like that because i would have to move everything over once i bought a new cd.

so my system of organization: when i bought it. i have a pretty good memory, so i was able to organize them into which i bought first, second, third, etc.
it took me a while because i had to do 7 years worth of cds, but i did it. it was also pretty cool seeing how my musical tastes differed from year to year.
and just so i don’t have to think about what goes where in case it gets rearranged, i bought a notebook and wrote down the right order. when i buy new cds, i add it to the bottom of the shelf and write it down in the notebook.

totally worth doing, everything’s a thousand times easier to find.

I’m working on this again. I started going though CDs to pull some to get rid of. I’ll go for the “organization” once I have left. This is also working towards my “own less” goal.

I’ve started working on this and it happens to be more time consuming that I anticipated. It makes me questions its worth, actually. Slow but steady will be the plan, I guess. I’ve probably spent 3 or 4 hours working on it and I’ve alphabetized through the Ds.

I bought new CD carrying books. I plan to start this project next month.