CD Organization

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Hah. You probably thought I meant 'CD' as in Chief Delphi. Nope, not this thread.

I buy lots of music CDs. I rip them all, and then (semi-)neatly organize them alphabetically by artist. The problem comes when I buy a new CD, and have to shuffle the whole collection around to fit onto the bookshelf. I hate playing CD-Jenga whenever I buy new CDs.



My question to you guys, being smart FIRST students, engineers, coaches, etc .. Do you keep your music collection this organized? If so, do you have a better way that you'd want to share with people? Any custom shelves or store-bought wonders that I haven't heard of?

I know the easy solution would be to just keep them unorganized, but when I want to read the liner notes to my Underoath or Copeland CD, I don't want to be looking through hundreds of cases trying to spot them.

Thanks.

Wow.. database them! Every new CD that comes in gets entered into a database (cd name, artist, blah). Whatever id number you get from the insert becomes the id printed on the cd. You then sort the physical CDs by id number .

Ok, maybe thats overkill. But, for starters, you could arrange the CDs horizontally like books, allowing you to alphabetize and index them with bookmarkers (a piece of paper that says 'A'...'Z'). When you get a new CD, you just place it in the space you reserved for new CDs at each letter of the alphabet, and everything shifts over.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Wow.. database them! Every new CD that comes in gets entered into a database (cd name, artist, blah). Whatever id number you get from the insert becomes the id printed on the cd. You then sort the physical CDs by id number .

Ok, maybe thats overkill.

That's a tempting idea.

I wonder if I could get it to integrate with Delicious Monster. I suppose I'd need to buy Delicious Monster .. and a new Apple computer .. to find out. I've always wanted to catalog the CDs in a database, though. Hmm.