Sami Klein <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Don Satz's mention of alphabeting his CD collection, and then Ed Zubrow >asking the better way to do it, I can only tell you what I do and like, >not that it is necessarily better. My solution is similar to Sami's, but slightly more organized by ethnic origin of composer. Because my Russian, Nordic, British and American collections quickly outstripped the capacity of the two 500-capacity units I had, I reserved those for 'general' discs and had four separate areas allocated one to each of the above collections. Within each collection I store alphabetically by composer name, then in order of type of composition, along the lines of the Grove entries -- i.e. opera, stage works, symphonies, concerti etc. It works relatively well and I rarely have any difficulty finding a disc, despite the growing size of the collection. In order to keep track of what is on which disc when it comes to multi-composer issues, I use fellow-Lister Tim Dickinson's excellent ClassiCat32 software, available from him at www.tdware.com -- been using it for over three years now and am very happy with it. It also offers me a facility to store other information about the composer and/or piece which I gather from a variety of sources -- a truly valuable resource when it comes to creative writing! Tim Mahon Alexandria, VA