> -----Original Message----- > From: Benoît Pueyo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 August 2005 17:21 > > Ok hmm well i guess the easiest is to sort records by labels > (then by cat #)
I wasn't going to recommend my system as Alex and Robin would die laughing since I've had one recent notorious unable-to-find-record situation. However that was because it wasn't filed under any system but lost when I was out of it. This is always my downfall and I don't think any system will guard against it. However if we're talking about easiest I've got to nominate it. You simply add the ones you just bought to the end! Sounds silly but it has advantages: everything stays exactly where it is so you never have to keep shuffling records round your storage to fit more in at a certain point you don't get behind on filing as you just keep adding the new stuff to one end and what you'd think was the natural disadvantage (that things are difficult to find like that) turns out fine as in fact it's amazing what a memory you develop for the order of the records when they never change relative position - I have a parlour trick where I can amaze visitors to my flat surprised by how many records are there where I close my eyes, they pull out a record, note the title, put it back, then I open my eyes they tell me the title and I can usually go straight to within about an inch of it. Of course to work best you have to have been doing the system for a while but if anyone's thinking it sounds good you could always put your existing tunes in chronological order and then start adding (what I did some years ago) Guess it's not as good for "hmmm I'm playing at a disco night tonight - what disco do I have available?" but alphabetical doesn't help with that unless it's within genres.
