On 7/2/03 12:02 PM, "skip Heller" <velaires@earthlink.net> wrote:
I have a failsafe system: alphabetically by artist, and compilations alphabetically by title.
It's easier to find a Ray Charles album that way, instead of wondering if he's jazz, blues, vocal or whatever.
I think it all depends on your "case logic" Skip. Jon Abbey said in an interview this week that he owns somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000 CDs. I would need a secretary to manage that volume--not to mention a few categories.
Of course, if you don't have any Ray Charles albums, there are too many levels upon which you can't be helped.
Oh now, now. Some of us happily don't know what we're missing. Ray's always in the background when I try to muster some endurance for a mandated karaoke session. Besides, I can always play the "my nostalgia is hipper than thou" with my Sidney Bechet and Django Reinhardt CDs. Don't have any of those? God have mercy on you. -- The human being is an unconscious prisoner of the ideologies and beliefs of society and the state who use him as a blind pawn in their machinery ever so destructive of lives and destinies.--Iannis Xenakis