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1 when it comes to listening to my collection. Walk over to the collection, grab a title I have not listened to in awhile and that is what is played.
3 when it comes to how the titles are arranged. I have them arranged alphabetical by composer. My father stores his by label and number. I have a problem finding what I am trying to find when that is done.
10 when it comes to loaning out any park of my collection. My father always taught me to share except when it can to his collection, so I have done the same thing. When I first started collecting, a few CDs I loaned to friends did not come back in the condition they left in, so no more loaning. Buy your own!  I do still loan to my father since he knows the proper loving way to care for the little shiny discs.
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Jul 17, 2014 - 11:36 AM
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Jim Doherty
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I really have no choice about being anal, or to use a less derogatory term, orderly, about my collection. It's big enough that I have to keep it in some kind of order, or I'd never find anything.
I've filed most soundtracks alphabetically. I've got separate sections for a couple of favorite composers, as well as an entire separate rack for my idol, Bernard Herrmann. As for compilation CDs, I've filed them by label, hoping I can remember what piece is on what label. For my own CD-R compilations, I have a separate rack and a printed index that lists where I can find whatever tracks I'm looking for.
As far as listening to the CDs, I just listen to whatever comes to mind that day, although I am thinking of soon just starting with "A" and working my way through my entire collection, A to Z, just to hear everything again. I know there are a lot of things I haven't heard in years, and this would be a great way to reacquaint myself with everything I have... what I love, what I forgot, and perhaps what I can get rid of.
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Since I'm basically homeless, and access my collection through the lossless rips I've done for an mp3 player, my collection is continually stored in the homes and garages of those sympathetic to me.
The immediate mass storage method for the discs is plastic drawers, tubs, or cardboard boxes. However, within those mass storage units, I place each individual disc in a foldover sandwich bag, or bubble wrap if it is too large for the sandwich bag.
Does this method of archiving make me anal, or simply poor and desperate?
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I have several categories one being animation. Much of the collection by composer.
Since I arrange my cds vertically, one per slot, I specifically put animation after Zimmer so I could have SPIRIT & LION KING reside in both categories. Same with BALTO & hORNER.
I also do similar sorting to try and have FSm & Intrada titles run consecutively.
PATHETIC, REALLY
bruce
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I also make sure to have the best side of the spine facing outward.
ex: TITANIC
really, really pathetic
brm
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Wasn't there someone on here a few years ago who kept all his CDs in airtight plastic envelopes & would only read the booklets while wearing white gloves?
Yes. I believe that was Hercule Poirot, Belgian Dectective.
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Oh, I suppose about a 6.
They're all alphabetical which is fairly normal but the anal thing comes into play in the way I listen to them.
With the occasional exception I listen to them alphabetically too. I start with "A" go through "Z" and then start over again. Having a large collection, it takes awhile to get through. I'm at the Ds now. Yesterday I listened to The Deep (John Barry) on my way to and from jury duty, today I listened to Desert Of The Tartars (Ennio Morricone) and tomorrow I'll listen to Desire Under The Elms (Elmer Bernstein).
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I'm up near 9-10.
My collection (1,300) is alphabetized by title. To know exactly what I have, not only do I use SoundtrackCollector.com, but I also created a Microsoft Access database. Within the database, the CDS are cataloged using the title, composer’s names, performer’s names, year of print, CD number, record company, and I have a "note" section for anything additional such as if the liner notes are autographed. With the data base set up like this, I can readily pull up more specific lists such as specific labels, and composers.
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Jul 19, 2014 - 1:14 PM
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TerraEpon
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Throwing away half of such a magnificent set, and keeping a booklet that now mismatches the discs, isn't anal - it's crazy.
It's even more than that -- the reasoning doesn't make sense, at ALL. Disc 5 also has a re-recording he claims to hate, while disc 3 and 4 both have alternates from the OST just as disc 5 does.
So if someone only wants to listen to disc 1 and 2....that kinda might make sense. Maybe. Sorta. But there's none, zip, zero, nilch, nada, reason that there's any possible possibility that in any way makes sense to keep 5 but not 3 and 4.
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Jul 19, 2014 - 4:54 PM
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Adam.
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Throwing away half of such a magnificent set, and keeping a booklet that now mismatches the discs, isn't anal - it's crazy.
It's even more than that -- the reasoning doesn't make sense, at ALL. Disc 5 also has a re-recording he claims to hate, while disc 3 and 4 both have alternates from the OST just as disc 5 does.
So if someone only wants to listen to disc 1 and 2....that kinda might make sense. Maybe. Sorta. But there's none, zip, zero, nilch, nada, reason that there's any possible possibility that in any way makes sense to keep 5 but not 3 and 4.
Well, allow me to explain then. I do not "hate" the re-recording discs. I just never listen to them. I even tried to give them away on the trading post but no one wanted them. They have no alternates I cared for.
Disc 5, however, does have one alternate track I do prefer to the film version. Track 17, the non-choral Star of Bethlehem music, is more pleasing to my ears. I'm keeping disc 5 in case something happens to my burned CDRs and I need to make another copy.
So, yes, there is a possible possibility that makes sense in wanting to keep disc 5 but not 3 and 4. If it will make one happy I'll take a pair of scissors and cut out the pages from the booklet that make reference to discs 3 & 4 so that it will match the discs.
Have a good evening.
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