Nice setup dude

I am now through to the R's. I think i am going to stop buying cds....

For those that arrange alphabetically, where do you put an album whose band name is a number?

I recently picked up Funny Thing by 40 Ft. Ringo. Should I put them before 'A' or at the beginning of 'F' for forty? At the end of the 'F's? After 'Z'?

I do the same as FF, I put the arrange the bands CD's like the name has been spelled out

My CDs have NO hope for ever being arranged. I've let most of my CD cases go. Didn't want to go back to the ex's parents house to go through them and lug them down to FL this coming Monday.

well mine are now arranged but I think I liked the genre way better. On the upside I found 21 cds I didnt have on my list...

Wait until you have about double the number of CDs you have now; any arrangement other than alphabetic makes finding what you're looking for impossible.

Even the alphabetic arrangement has problems. Where do you put Ian Anderson's solo albums which are nothing like Jethro Tull? Genre-wise they're closest to world music but they don't fall neatly into that category. Using my alphabetic system, I would normally file Ian's solo discs under "A" for "Anderson" but I likely would never pull them out for play then. As a result I file Ian's solo stuff after Jethro Tull in The Vault.

Lots of stuff I have doesn't fall neatly into a genre so I have no idea how I'd sort everything using that criterion. Bruce Hornsby? His early stuff is pop music, his later stuff is more like jazz and his most recent output is improvisational. Shotgun Messiah? First 2 album might fit neatly into a hair metal genre but then Violent New Breed comes out and is a solid industrial metal album How would you ever find that one if you arrange your collection by genre? Me, I look in the "S" section and I find them all.

As long as we're talking arrangements, does anybody share the strange quirk I have? I've found that most people file tribute albums under "various" or at the end of their shelves with compilations and other oddities, but I stick'em at the end of the section for the band being tributed, i.e. my NATIVITY IN BLACK disc is at the end of my Sabbath CDs, the HOLY DIO disc is at the end of my Dio section, etc., etc.

All my tribute albums or compilations of various artists are lumped together at the beginning of "V" for various. The few bootlegs I have are stored with the artist in chronological order when possible.

All my tributes, movie soundtracks and miscellaneous hit compilations are after "Z".

I just group mine into band names and the tribute albums with the band they are doing the tribute of. I put my favorite group such as Ozzy in my favorite cd rack. Alphabetical seems like too much work at the moment. Funny to read all the comments about the wives, wonder what it would be like if a couple were both metalheads, would they fight about who owns the new cd they both want to get or each buy their own and guard their collections? I've never been with a metalhead guy before so its never been an issue.

I forgot to say Wargod 48, anyone who wears a Doro shirt is ok in my books!!