Cataloguing My Prog Collection

I'm jealous now. You have several artists on your list that I wish I had in my CD collection too.

[EDIT] For the record, no re-organising of my collection. That shall always be alphabetical. But merely interest to see how much I listen to from each of the PA “genres”. The likelihood is, I hope, that after a good night’s sleep this madness will have left my mind. 

I don’t use American English, so it is not a correction so much as a change - but whatever floats your boat. Odd, though, as I thought Canadians tended not to use American English spellings? Do you write colour or color? 🤔

But otherwise, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. As you say, every form of organisation (or organization?🤷🏻‍♂️) requires a certain degree of sub-sections.

But alphabetising, and then sub-sections within the alphabetising is the simplest form. (Alphabetizing? How often do ‘s’s get changed to ‘z’ in American English?)

As soon are you are organising by any other method, chances are you’re going to be alphabetising at some point within, and then the same sub-sections those that alphabetising will still exist, but now they will be sub-sub-sections. Or something.

We all live in a yellow submarine....

To be fair, it’s not the actual number of categories that is the problem. I have 26 separate categories (A-Z). 😜

Boxed sets and odd-sized digipaks are the only thing that stops my collection from being uniformly alphabetised. I suppose it depends on what kind of shelving/storage unit someone uses, but my shelves don’t allow much extra space in terms of height or depth, so if I can fit something in (including smaller box sets) then I will, but all the rest of the odds and sods have to find a place somewhere else. They are as alphabetised as possible, but because of the varying shapes and sizes, some pragmatism is applied. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Well, I've given up counting how many CDs and albums I have. And you are right, for physical product alphabetizing is the simplest way to go....the Occam's razor of finding a specific CD in a sea of CDs with tiny lettering along their spines. And even then, when you have 20-something Beatles or Jethro Tull or King Crimson CDs, even that takes a minute to find a specific one. And then there are the boxed sets. 

ROFLMAO

Physical collections are quite different from digital in that way. It is incredibly useful being able to sort or search through a digital collection by metadata (be it year, genre, record label, or whatever else you’ve ascribed to your collection). But for physical, anything other than alphabetical is terribly cumbersome.

 

Total number of prog albums across all genres = 565

 

That's out of a total of around 3,000 CD's overall.

Agree.....for my digital catalog I do have artists by genre using metadata edit software so it shows up when playing. Whether it is 100% accurate based on PA or any other list is not a worry for me, in a lot of cases I have made up genre or sub-genres, I mean it is MY music catalog .

For my records in my bins they are not in alphabetical order, they are separated by band/artist name. Although I do not mix for example The Flower Kings section is only that, does not include Anderson Stolt LP.

Although sounds like a great Covid stay home project....Catalog everything!