Catherine wrote:
> The next dilemma is (esp. for classical stuff), do I file it under
> the name of the composer? The performer? The conductor?
> And what do you do if it's got more than one composer, or more
> than one soloist? AAAggghh! Trying to make order out of chaos
> seems to produce more chaos.
That it does!
A few months ago, Mary and I bought a nice CD player that holds 400 disks ... it took
WEEKS to get all of our CDs loaded, titled, and categorized. Mary has a lot of
classical, and we ran into the same dilemma.
Since the unit allows you to assign disks to one of eight groups, we "solved" the
problem by grouping the classical by the "predominant" instrument. We ended up with:
Violin (we're both really into this instrument in particular, so we created its own
group)
Strings
Piano
Woodwinds
Horns
Percussion
Orchestra
For the last group, we chose Jazz/New Age. Of course this limits my ability to create
other (and to me, more important) groups -- eight groups is way too few!
It didn't work out perfectly, as some classical CDs are compilations, but it does help.
Lori
near DC
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