My LPs go: original official releases in a haphazard combination of how much I like the album and the order that I bought them in (with solo / side projects and Marianne thrown in the mix)--Primitive Cool is dead last, then all the new releases / reissues, then all my boots. CDs jumbled in a bin with other artists. Tapes jumbled in a different bin. 8 tracks in the drawer with the canned cat food. Wow, I feel very unorganized now! 1976 Keith could probably have done a better job organizing my music.

"Nice bit of silk, Em."

CDs & Vinyl - Chronilogically

DVDs/Blu-Ray - Oldest to Newest Addition

Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

Which is the prettiest?


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Studio albums and compilations: By release date.

Live albums: By recorded date.

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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

Which is the prettiest?

LIB. Silly question.

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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

I actually thought about doing that once!, but decided it didn't work for me. I ended up with Stone Alone, Miss You (pink), Still Life, and Love You Live up at the front. B&B is first in my current set-up.

"Nice bit of silk, Em."

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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

Which is the prettiest?

LIB. Silly question.

Are you forgetting Flowers?

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Are you forgetting Flowers?

[Headsmack!] Dammit! Yes.

(Smile) It was getting a bit testonteroney around here... thanks, ladies!

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Chronologically.
I put the recent vault releases as per their recording date rather than their release date.

^ THIS

Rod

Official releases mixed in with bootlegs in chronological order, though 'archive' releases are put with their respective live years, rather than release years. Solo albums follow, then compilations that feature various members (i.e. 'Pay Pack and Follow', 'Boogie 4 Stu').

Some of you have mentioned the idea of compilations being separate. I might adopt that style. They always seem like they break the "flow" when I search my shelf.



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My smartphone is linked to the files stored in my Sony Harddisc Player.
The song titles and credit etc. are automatically downloaded from data base.
I can sort out every single artist in one second.
It's a kind of rational approach.

Chronologically by release date, but the process repeats with several categories of vinyl.


LPs

bootleg
stereo regular
stereo open London script
stereo rare pressings or mistakes
mono rare pressings or mistakes
mono
in shrink
sealed
promo
radio broadcast
12 singles
picture discs

for 7 inch

bootleg vinyl
bootleg picture discs
London vinyl promo
London vinyl stock
mistakes
Decca stock
Decca promo
Rolling Stones Records vinyl
solo
EPs foreign
bootlegs with sleeves
US picture sleeves for 45s
US Juke Box
Foreign sleeves
solo w/sleeves

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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

My vinyl records are all together but in no particular order. My live cassette tapes on the other hand are in order by date.

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i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

Not sure if it's a filing system or a fetish. If you dust them with peacock feathers, I don't want to know!

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i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

Not sure if it's a filing system or a fetish. If you dust them with peacock feathers, I don't want to know!

sounds suspiciously similar to "dusting" one's broom.

Very roughly into boots and official - after that its anyone's guess. Racks, drawers, shelves and floor. Tried organizing so often, gave up.

My entire collection is arranged chronologically by date of the most recent recording. Jagger solo goes with Js, Richards solo with the Rs, Watts, Wyman and Wood with Ws. My potty training must've been something!

A friend of mine catalogs his vinyl in the order he bought it. He's the only person who can finds things in his collection consistently.



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By artist, and chronologically within each. Bootlegs separate.

Weird thing is that only my Stones albums are filed in any real order.

All my other albums ae randomly located...just broadly grouped by artist and genre.

It works because, when they've been there for years, you just know where to find them.

Nobody else of course would be able to find anything in your collection...and it's a pain if you're ever looking for something that you last absently mindedly put back in the wrong place.

I once "lost" Ry Cooder's Into the Purple valley for years just because it had slipped an inch or two back from the front of the shelf after I'd "mis-filed" it .

Imagine my delight when I then one day stumbled accross it



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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

We file anywhere, man...

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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

The ladies are perhaps more expert at filing shoes & handbags

For boots...........x 13......



......(you could say I file my boots in handbags......(+ 3 x External HDs....


Official & silver disc boots in chronological order in CD drawer (+ on 3 Externals also..........(I used to have 2.5 TB of boots on just one HD but had a power surge which fried the internals.....it cost me £650 to get it all back...............

Vinyl in the cupboard - flat.....



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Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

We file anywhere, man...

We are not old men, we are not worried about petty filing!

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We file anywhere, man...

We are not old men, we are not worried about petty filing!

Ooo..that hurts.

You know perfectly well that many of us are at least on the verge of becoming old men...

....and we do indeed seem to be worried about petty filling

Now I'm feeling sorry for myself.

..and I'm off to scatter my records all over the floor in the hope that it'll make me feel like a proper rebel !



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I am beginning to wonder if many of these organized filers are the same folks who
often label Stones records as over produced.

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I am beginning to wonder if many of these organized filers are the same folks who
often label Stones records as over produced.

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Chronologically, from left (oldest) to right (newest) in my CD collection.

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SomeTorontoGirl
Does nobody go by how pretty the covers are?

i am getting an interesting take in this study on the difference between male and female filing systems.

generally, men seem to have them.

The ladies are perhaps more expert at filing shoes & handbags

oh dear!