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.