I had about 1500 LPs. Then my closest audiophile friend died and left more than 6000 LPs, from which his wife invited me to take my pick. I selected about 900 of his LPs, and I think she gave away the rest. Faced with that windfall, I found a furniture company in Brooklyn that would build me a custom cabinet to my specs, designed for about 800 LPs to be stored on end with the binders facing out. I also bought a second cabinet that is more like the one you describe, covers facing forward so you can flip through them, two shelves with two rows per shelf. That probably holds about 500 LPs. I keep jazz vocals in that cabinet, arranged only by alphabetical order according to the names of the vocalists. (On another level of my house, I have two more storage spaces for jazz vocalists.) In the new 800-LP cabinet from Brooklyn, I have nearly all jazz instrumentalists, all arranged alphabetically by player names. The lowest shelf contains some vintage R&R, including Beatles and Stones, and some Latin jazz. I don't organize by label at all. I go by the artist and the genre.
Best way to organize 6000 albums?
I currently have about 2000 albums arranged alphabetically. I purchased a collection that was randomly numbered ( each new album owner purchased received the next available number ) and came with a DBASE file as an index. I have a few thousand in boxes gathering dust. I am wondering if anyone has ingeneous ideas as to how to have access to all albums and make them easy to browse through. The least amount of space used the better. I guess I prefer parallel to the wall as it is easier to flip through them and see the covers ( for guests ). I'm thinking of a vertical rack shaped like the ride the zipper with rows of album storage trays, it can be rolled vertically through placing each row at the appropriate level ?? any ideas welcome...any diy out there in this vain.