Looking for a new way to organize my collection
07-08-10 | 01:56 PM
#27
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
Alphabetically, by year of release works best for me. Starting with 2010 followed by 2009, 2008 and so on.
07-08-10 | 02:18 PM
#28
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
I couldn't imagine bypassing genre and just going straight alphabetical with a large collection. Genre is the way to go. If you are in the mood for a sci-fi film, then they are all grouped together for your perusal. Comedy? Over on this shelf. Even my TV sets are seperated between Comedy & Drama.
BDs are another matter though since I don't have a tenth or twentieth of the DVDs I have. BDs are split between Animated/family and everything else, then alphabetical.
BDs are another matter though since I don't have a tenth or twentieth of the DVDs I have. BDs are split between Animated/family and everything else, then alphabetical.
07-08-10 | 04:12 PM
#29
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
Personally, if I'm ever in the mood for something, I'm in the mood for something specific: "Star Trek" (it's under "S"; "Doctor Who" (it's under "D"). If I don't know what I'm in the mood for, then I just start with "A" and start looking for a title to jump out at me.
07-08-10 | 04:25 PM
#30
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
Personally, if I'm ever in the mood for something, I'm in the mood for something specific: "Star Trek" (it's under "S"; "Doctor Who" (it's under "D"). If I don't know what I'm in the mood for, then I just start with "A" and start looking for a title to jump out at me.
But I actually am considering separating all of my horror films into their own shelfing.
07-08-10 | 10:01 PM
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
I used to have them in category of genre but then I kept overthinking which genre's to put certain movies in and went back to Alphabetical. I find it the easiest and most effective.
07-08-10 | 11:28 PM
#32
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Agreed. Some movies are really hard to categorize. I did the genre sorting once but kept switching certain titles back, forth and all over the place.
07-09-10 | 08:15 AM
#33
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
I keep two different collections, stuff I've seen and stuff I've haven't. The stuff I've seen is organized alphabetically, the stuff I've haven't I keep organized my length of feature. This way if I know I only have 1:45 to watch a movie and want to watch something I haven't I know what can be watched and can't.
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07-09-10 | 11:11 AM
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
I order by Alpha using four categories, Blu-ray, DVD, TVDVD, and the Archive (movies I put in jewel cases because I don't have enough room to display them all).
But for purposes of my database I use three genres for movies
1. Action/Adventure/Drama
2. Comedy/Musical
3. Horror
I found the combing genres made it very easy to classify something to one category.
07-09-10 | 11:37 AM
#35
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I think I'm just going to end up ignoring genre altogether. The concept no longer exists in my mind. Zip. It's gone.
07-09-10 | 12:06 PM
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Re: Looking for a new way to organize my collection
I keep two different collections, stuff I've seen and stuff I've haven't. The stuff I've seen is organized alphabetically, the stuff I've haven't I keep organized my length of feature. This way if I know I only have 1:45 to watch a movie and want to watch something I haven't I know what can be watched and can't.
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