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Points: 13239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2016 at 04:55
I'm visually oriented and have a photographic memory. I simply put my records in alphabetical order on whatever the name is that is on the cover, and retrieve them by knowing in which part of the collection they are and the color of the 'spine'.
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Points: 620 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2016 at 19:54
Devin Townsend (solo), The Devin Townsend Band, Devin Townsend Project --> Devin Townsend
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Points: 383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2016 at 12:26
The way that I do it now is that I simply file everything except for "The" names by the first letters in the name.

So "Frank Zappa" goes under "F"

"Bill Bruford's Earthworks" goes under "B"

"A Silver Mt. Zion" goes under "A"

"Os Mutantes" goes under "O"

etc.

but "The Moody Blues" goes under "M"

The only reason I do that with "The" names is because (a) there are so many of them, (b) some bands have been inconsistent regarding whether they use "The" before their name, and (c) I often forget whether a particular band used "The" before their name or not.
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Points: 383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2016 at 12:30
Originally posted by Junges Junges wrote:

Devin Townsend (solo), The Devin Townsend Band, Devin Townsend Project --> Devin Townsend


Yeah, there are some artists where I file everything like that under the individual's name.  And I even do that for stuff like the Mothers of Invention, where it was just credited to MoI.  In my opinion, the MoI were essentially the same as Frank Zappa solo with hired side musicians.

On the other hand, sometimes I'll make a separation.  For example, Adam and the Ants are a separate folder from Adam Ant solo in my collection.

With Todd Rundgren, I was originally filing all of the Utopia albums under Rundgren's name, too, but then I decided to separate them.  Utopia was more of a collaborative band.

I also used to file all Parliament and Funkadelic albums together (as "Parliament-Funkadelic"), along with the George Clinton solo albums, the Brides of Funkenstein album, etc., but I decided to separate them, too.

I'm pretty inconsistent about this.  It simply depends on the artist(s)/how I think about them.
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