Categorizing records/CDs.

[Wintermute]

A bit like Crispy's approach, with about 30 genres:

80's, Ambient, Baggy, Bootleg, Breaks, Chillout, Christmas, Classical, Comedy, Dance, Dancehall, Drum + Bass, Dub, Electronica, Funk, Happy Hardcore, Hard House, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Oldies, Oldschool, Pop, R&B, Reggae, Rock, Soundtrack, Techno, Trance, Trip-Hop, Vocal

Reflects a mainly dance-based collection, with "House" being the Hed Kandi / Global Underground / Fabric type stuff, "Hard House" being anything a bit Hoovery that isn't hard enough to go into Trance; "Dance" contains those mid-90's commercial house tracks and anything by Eric Prydz, and "Rock" is anything involving guitars.

 

[A Dashing Blade]

. . . Reflects a mainly dance-based collection, with "House" being the Hed Kandi / Global Underground / Fabric type stuff, . . .

How the hell can you lump in Global Underground and Fabric with Hed Kandi?

 

[Orang Utan]

all three are dreadful generally

 

[gentlegreen]

How the hell can you lump in Global Underground and Fabric with Hed Kandi?

I only have one TGA CD - I think .. and a Jah Wobble - in my collection I think I put those in the ambienty / misc end near Natacha Atlas's solo stuff in the "Arabesque" box ...

I have a seperate slot for Hed Kandi and Cafe Del Mar .

... mainstream House Comps have their own box too ...

EDIT :-

This has inspired me to rediscover the folksy end of things - gawd I'd forgotten about Afro Celt Sound System ...

And I found another of my Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan CDs.

 

[atitlan]

I will eventually get a nice amp and speakers again and just buy a decent separate DAC with DIG/OP in.

Pipe the DIG/Op from my Mac mini with the lossless music library on and bob's yer uncle.

I've been thinking of doing something similar to that. My CD player has got a digital feed into the DAC. Don't know how best to get the digital out from the Mac though, seen some USB based things, but not sure which are any good.

 

[Orang Utan]

i just plug my ipod/mac into my ancient cheapo second hand amp and 15 year old hand-me-down speakers - sound fine to me

 

[danny la rouge]

In my collection, Elvis goes in the same place as Cliff Richard ...

Your name has gone in the book, for when the revolution comes.

 

[stavros]

All in perfect alphabetical order, and then chronological within each act. Acts beginning with a number (e.g. 2 Live Crew) come first in numerical order. Compilations come at the end.

This can throw up some nice partnership with differing acts next to each other. For example, Girls Aloud are sandwiched between Ghostface Killah and DJ Godfather (now there's a vivid image), and McFly are immediately preceded by the MC5.

The only problem comes when acts change their name; the aforemention Mr Killah released one album under just the name 'Ghostface', and The Stooges became Iggy And The Stooges for their third album. When that happens, I go by their initial name.

 

[danny la rouge]

Are there any women here?

 

[gentlegreen]

Women's CD collections.

 

[hiccup]

My vinyl is divided into hip hop/drum n bass/breaks/house/other.

My CDs are loosely soted by genre but I hardly ever put one on these days so mainly they just gather dust.

My mp3s are a big fucking mess of tagged and untagged files, some in folders, some not. I really need to sort them out but there's about 20,000 files and I can never quite face making a start.

 

[A Dashing Blade]

. . . near Natacha Atlas's solo stuff in the "Arabesque" box . . .

Which leads to the problem of where to put Offra Haze non?