How do you organize/keep track of your CD collection?

[Mariko]

I'm curious to know how those of you who have many CDs organize and keep track of them (not limited to YK music). Do you class your collection by artist, year, theme or something else? Do you display them or keep them in a box?

I personally have a IKEA Billy shelf dedicated to my YK collection. I'll propably have to reorganize it soon due to a lack of space and I'm not sure what would be the best way to do it.

Also, do you use any particular website to keep track of which CDs you already have? Or do you keep everything listed in a document? Up until now, I've been using MyFigureCollection since I also collect figures so everything was in one place. I used to add the CDs I own that weren't already in the database myself but it looks like regular users won't be able to do that soon, so I'm looking for suggestions. Please let me know if you are aware of a complete database that also allows doujin CDs :)

 

[grunty]

Wish I could be informative or offer an interesting perspective but I don't actually use anything for my physical media really.

I do split everything up a bit, like all the Japanese composers/artists are separate from everything else (and Kajiura stuff definitely has its own huge cluster ), Soundtracks are separate from everything else, Animation soundtracks and other movie soundtracks are separate, etc. (Same for movies/shows/animation.)

But I really don't bother with alphabetical or any sorting beyond those clusters (wherever it fits on my shelves! lol space is always an issue...) or anything external to keep track of it. (I know what I should have.)

Edit:
Actually, I lied. I see my movie soundtracks are more or less alphabetical in their animation&non clusters, whereas non-soundtrack music is usually just messy artist clusters.

 

[Kugayama]

I rip CD's to flac format on the pc in the order that I purchase them and use that to keep track of what I own.

Sometimes I end up with duplicates as some Japanese titles can be written in romaji, katakana or kanji.

Physically, many of them are still in the bags from Book-Off or Mandarake with the receipt inside, as I like to remember where I found the CD's.

 

[His_Cifnes]

Hi Mariko! ^^/

To bring in some nerdy aspects, I have to admit, that I put all the data in a database and if I need to know about something, I do perform a query.
If time permits (propably means never) I might put a simple website around that, so it's easier to handle. (Piano is a time killer currently)

Such a thing might actually already exist somewhere on the web, where people can enter their CD collection. Their services might be something for you. : )

But typical for me.. I don't want to depend on other's services, I had to have my own database.. locally, with my own backups and if something goes wrong, it's my fault. :p

As for physical storage, I do also use an IKEA product to store em all. - Good thing these are modular, and therefore only limited by room space. : )

Cif ~

 

[Mariko]

But typical for me.. I don't want to depend on other's services, I had to have my own database.. locally, with my own backups and if something goes wrong, it's my fault. :p

That's a good idea, I should do the same and not depend on any external service, you never know when a website might shut down!

Physically, many of them are still in the bags from Book-Off or Mandarake with the receipt inside, as I like to remember where I found the CD's.

I think I'll add that info to my own database, that's a detail that will be nice to remember in a few years!

But I really don't bother with alphabetical or any sorting beyond those clusters (wherever it fits on my shelves! lol space is always an issue...) or anything external to keep track of it. (I know what I should have.)

For now, my CDs are more or less organized (All YK OSTs together, all Kalafina CDs are on the same shelf, etc.) but I don't know if I'll be able to keep it that way since I'm really starting to lack space. It's hard to find a way to keep everything organized while also showing off my favorite albums. I'm currently looking to add some additionnal shelfs to my IKEA Lappland, hopefully it'll solve the problem for a while!