How do you organize your collection?

[toef]

Originally Posted by Kynch

Haha the ever-returning organisation topic.

In all fairness, it's been a while. I haven't seen one in at least 2-3 weeks.

As for me, I stick with the basic alphabetical order. Anything else just seems a bit too anal (although I guess alphabetical order is still more snobbish than just throwing them all on a shelf randomly).

I do, however, keep DVDs and BDs separate. Concerts, horror movies, and Julia Roberts movies are kept separate as well.

[Cisco in HD]

With my hands!! :rimshot:

I do the recent purchases route. I'm not one to put them in alphabetical order.

[Pirate King]

Originally Posted by iFresh

alphabetic, but I throw sequels together. For example: Batman Begins is followed by The Dark Knight.

That is how I do it. I have almost a thousand dvd's and blu's and it would take forever to find something if they were not alphabetical. I also have all of my DVD's and Blu's mixed together. So if I want to watch Jurassic Park, I go to the J's. If I want to watch the Matrix (Which is blu-ray) I go to the M's. The exception is Elvis. All Elvis moves are in the E's

I do have all of the annimation seperate, so the grandkids can pick out something to watch without messing with my collection.

And yes. I have dvd profiler. It is great !

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

keep them in binders

Which probably works a great deal better with Blu-Ray {and the scratch resistant coating} than it did with DVD's and CD's amiright?

Me?

I put them in alphabetical order {numbers first} then what I call 'special interest' Concert performances, T.V. shows, then DVD's at the end of the line.

Logan

[Rob71]

I've been alphabetizing them. But I'm getting enough now that I'm probably going to separate them by genre, then alphabetize them. That way when I feel like a horror film I don't have to wade through all of them.

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Which probably works a great deal better with Blu-Ray {and the scratch resistant coating} than it did with DVD's and CD's amiright?

Me?

I put them in alphabetical order {numbers first} then what I call 'special interest' Concert performances, T.V. shows, then DVD's at the end of the line.

Logan

honestly ive always kept my dvds and cds in binders too just cuz i travel a lot and it makes it easy to bring them with me. i never noticed scratches on any of the discs, but especially not on the blurays

[Deemarr22]

Alphabetical, like the majority have said in this thread.

[STARSCREAM]

I'm about to reconfigure mine again. Have them alphabetical right now but about to seperate them by genre again.

[PH3AR]

In the order i get them...yea i know thats weird but i do it for my ps3 games too!

[Diesel]

i go by preference of individual movies
but incase of series i put the sequels/originals with the highest liked in my order

like, TDK is first in mine, so Begins is 2nd
otherwise Incredible Hulk would be second

also keep the dvds and blus seperatly

[Valkyr47]

I prefer to organize my blu-rays and dvd's alphabetically

however ive run into an issue with series that dont always share the same name, and never figured out what to do

a perfect example is rambo

technically the first film is titled "First Blood"

whereas part 2 is "rambo first blood part 2" and then "RAmbo 3"

now i could put first blood in the F's, and put rambo 2 and 3 in the R's, but i would hate to split up a series

if i dont, how do you choose which letter they go on? would you just pretend first blood had rambo before it and put it in the R's before rambo 2 & 3, or would you put rambo 2 and 3 after first blood in the f's?

this is going to get difficult once i start getting more of the bond movies... id like to keep them together but the names are all different so i dont think i can do that without going against my alphabetical organization

any ideas?

[Blu Titan]

There's a huge thread on this subject, but it has been dormant for a while. Maybe it is time for a new one. I go by numerical and then alphabetical. I have been tempted to organize certain movies (James Bond) by subject. However, I have remained faithfull to my original plan.

[crazyBLUE]

I have all my single movies on the top shelves ~ fav's first on down the line ! Next shelf in A half are trilogy's (multiple titles) ~ again fav's first on down the line ! Other half shelf earth & space documentary's !!!

[Johnny Vinyl]

I don't have enough movies to really worry about as I can scan through my collection and find what I want in less than a minute. For those with large collections however, I can see that some level of organization is of signifcant benefit.

I would put Rambo "R" and First Blood "F", but I can see that would kinda mess up your grouping of sequals so to speak. Man, James Bond is going to be a nightmare on that score!

Speaking of organization, I really should alphabetize my vinyl collection again. I haven't done that since I moved in here 9 months ago! I have about 800-1,000 with me (don't have an exact count)..I just keep buying more!

John

[brettallica]

You've got to go numerical/alphabetical (example: "3:10 to Yuma" would come before "American Pie"). After that, series must be kept together, so all James Bond, or in your case Rambo, movies would be in one group. From there, it could get tricky, but I'd say that keeping series in chronological order would make the most sense. I mean "Quantam of Solace" should NEVER be before "Goldfinger." If I didn't do it that way, "The Teminator" would come after "T2: Judgement Day." That just ain't right!

That's the way I see it anyway.

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by John72953

I don't have enough movies to really worry about as I can scan through my collection and find what I want in less than a minute. For those with large collections however, I can see that some level of organization is of signifcant benefit.

I would put Rambo "R" and First Blood "F", but I can see that would kinda mess up your grouping of sequals so to speak. Man, James Bond is going to be a nightmare on that score!

Speaking of organization, I really should alphabetize my vinyl collection again. I haven't done that since I moved in here 9 months ago! I have about 800-1,000 with me (don't have an exact count)..I just keep buying more!

John

THIS ISN'T ABOUT VINYL John !! It's about Blu's !!
That is alot of albums to organize though ~ Better get to it !

[ShelbyGT500]

I do mine numerical/alphabetical as well. But, when it comes to sequels and such I group them together. So Batman Begins then The Dark Knight then it continues with the B's and so on. Like I have Casino Royale followed by Quantum of Solace.

[(Fe)Man]

I do mine by chronologically of when I bought them. I do keep series together though Like Rambo or Bourne.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

THIS ISN'T ABOUT VINYL John !! It's about Blu's !!
That is alot of albums to organize though ~ Better get to it !

me, if you must for mentioning my vinyl, but it's a point worth sharing, especially with Classical Recordings. How do you file them? By composer (all Bach's together)? By performer (von Karajan, Yo-yo Ma)? I have all of the Beatles Lp's that were released here in North America and file them under Beatles. I try to keep them in chronological order, but I've never been very successful at that. I know some guys that have put all of their Greatest Hits compilations together.

But back to Blu (and I won't mention the vinyl topic again). How would you file the Soundstage Concert BD's? Under "S" for soundstage or by artists? Or do you keep them seperate and apart as in genre of BD?

John

[brewp13]

At first I had them arranged by actor, just because I had a bunch of movies with nicholas cage, christian bale, hugh jackman, john travolta, and will smith. Obviously that didnt last very long once my collection started to grow. Now I have them arranged loosely by genre; action, horror/serial killer, asian/martial arts, and fantasy. Within fantasy I keep all of the marvel comic movies together. And then the ones that don't fit in to any of those categories, I have separate for now until I get enough of one kind to start a new category.

If I had your set up, I would put all bond films under B or under numbers for 007 but I wouldn't split them up. The same with Rambo I would put them all under R. Nobody actually calls it firstblood everyone just calls it Rambo.