Album Storage

Hi Kirkus, I'll bet your organization scheme does nicely promote browsing through the collection. My alphabetical approach certainly does not lend itself to browsing through similar musical material. I've thought from time to time about reorganizing around time period and genre to better enable casual browsing, but I think the collection is too far gone to change now. Still, it sounds like a user-friendly organizational scheme to consider.
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Dgad, my solution for classical LPs with multiple composers is to file one of three ways: 1) under the composer whose work on the LP has the greatest significance for me, or 2) file under the composer already taking up the most space on the shelves, or 3) when there are a whole host of composers with many short works, file under a generic category (e.g., "Baroque," "Brass," "Marches," "Renaissance"). In the generic groupings (#3), I'll typically sort by label.
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By genre, then alphabetically. I go by last name of the composer for classical and by last name of the artist for other genre. For groups, I go by the name of the group (e.g., for "Jethro Tull" use "J").

For LPs with works by multiple composers or with multiple artists, pick one. (E.g., in my collection, "Armstrong & Ellington" is filed under "Armstrong" for example. Why? An accident of history because I had more Louis Armstrong recordings than Duke Ellington recordings once upon a time.)

The important thing is to use a system that makes sense for you, that you can apply with as much consistency as practical, and that will allow you some success in finding the album your looking for without a prolong search through your shelves. My process still depends on a searchable database to find some LPs: a field in the database is "Filed Under" to tell me where I hid the thing. :-)
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