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Arrange them in any odd ball way?
I created an excel worksheet to inventory my recordings, and did so after I had already acquired many of them. So, I spent hours inputing the information. I was pretty diligent about entering new purchases into the schedule - entered them before I took the plastic off - up until around 2000. After that it was pretty much hit and miss. (At one point, I thought I had lost the inventory file and almost had a stroke.) My employment history has been a bit spotty over the last 5 years, so my purchases slowed down.
According to my spreadsheet, I have around 500 recordings, excluding pop/rock/folk stuff. Of the 500, around 250 are opera recordings and 50 are 'extracts' of an opera's better known arias.(I include oratorios in this category.)
Awhile back, I bought a nice wooden CD unit which probably holds about 300 regular CDs,but less opera recordings because of their multiple disks and boxes. I also a CD unit which has shelves on both sides (it pivots around.) Faced with moving the CDs that I had at the time, I went thru various machinations of how to organize them, especially the operas. Alphabetical by composer. Alphabetical by title etc. I decided to organize them by composer. Then I decided that they should be organized ethnically lol. The Italians got the honor of the nice unit with the glass doors, since after all, it's their medium.(I included the French with them, but have very few operas by French composers.) I managed to get all but a few into the unit. Then I had to decide how to organize the others in the rotating unit. Should the Russians come before the Germans? Who should be on the top shelves? In the end, Handel went first, followed by English composers, then the Russians and then the Germans.
The other classical CDs got organized sort of by type and composer.
Obsessive compulsive issue here? For sure lol. But I can find any opera I want within a minute. The other classicals take longer to find because of my inconsistent organization of them!
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