thedoorkeeper said:

Yeah. There's the Prince section and then there is the rest in alphabetical order. Prince gets the top shelf.

thedoorkeeper said:

Prince gets the top shelf.

huh?

Just one shelf?

Or are you runnign that one along the full length of your villa?

You might be missing out on some music.

Militant said:

MusicFan20Ten said:

i have a stack of three drawers;

on top lies my stuff i like to show off (pr dvd, rave, planet earth, indigo nights/21 nights and mojo magazine) as well as my vinyls.
the top drawer has my prince cds and dvds.
drawer two are other artists like Taylor Swift, Britney Spears to name a few.
and my bottom drawer is my Michael Jackson stuff

udo said:

bonatoc said:

I have a Prince room.

xenon said:

I have a Prince room.

Is it as ugly as Paisley Park's lobby?

Yup.

There is so much Prince material that it wouldn't make sense to have it mixed in with everything else. Hell, I haven't even gone through all his stuff yet. There's just so much sub-par stuff (demos, non-soundboard boots, etc.) that I don't think I'll ever go through it all.

For my digital music collection, I have added a new genre option. Every artist is classified as the record label set it, accept Prince, who gets the genre of "everything".

vinaysfunk said:

Absolutely! I love music in general and have a lot of other artists that I enjoy listening to. But Prince is on top and his own space. For two reasons. Because his music is by far my favorite and I have so much of his stuff. Its organized by year of release, my Prince collection. All my other artits are lumped together and alphabatized.

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Same here. I keep my Prince CDs in their own dedicated, wooden CD cabinet in one room. All other CDs are in another room on open shelves. Proteges and associates have their own shelf. Prince & protege music is filed chronologically by release date (proteges are also alphabetized)--CDs and maxi-singles together.

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My non-Prince-related CDs get their own shelf and just get clustered by artist, grouped radomly (and barely touched LOL). No alphabetizing or order of any kind. Good music. Just not my priority.

bonatoc said:

xenon said:

I have a Prince room.

Is it as ugly as Paisley Park's lobby?

Probably just about as ugly.

I have a music collection............then there's my Prince collection. So yeah mine is separated.

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I have roughly 850GB of Prince material just on my pc. Then there's all the posters, fan mags, vinyl, cassettes, cds, VHS, and DVDs as well. Of course much of the stuff on the pc are duplicates of my hard copy collection.

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Every few months I get motivated and try to organize all of it.

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sugarwall said:

I have a genre on my iPod called Prince. Everything Prince related goes there, including associated artists ie. The Time, Vanity 6 and even songs written by P.

Me too.

SmiggyG said:

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I have roughly 850GB of Prince material just on my pc.

Impressive. I used to have a high GB count myself but one day (in my 40s) i realised i'd probably die before I listened to all that again. There was stuff i realised i NEVER listened to more than once. I had a cull and deleted all my older poor quality bootlegs and just kept the soundboard gigs and A+ sounding studio outtakes. all my physical releases are in the attic these days. I don't miss that clutter either really.

My collecton is completely in alphabetical order by artist name, so Prince is in the Ps.

Who among us (REAL Prince fans) wouldnt keep Prince in a seperate section? I have seperate racks to hold my Prince CDs and records (yes, vinyl that I bought when those classic 70s and 80s albums and 12 inch singles were FIRST released). I organize my Prince collection chronologically and by source. Official albums started with For You and go in order up to AOA. Then I have a singles collection with remixes and Bside discs.

THen there is the official first generation Prince production/Paisley Park/NPG Records and related section which is comprised of subsections for each artist (ie. sections for The Time, Vanity, Apollonia, Mayte, Sheila E., Andre Cymone, NPG, The Family, Madhouse, etc).

Now, within those subsections, I have second generation such as Brownmark, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Wendy and Lisa, The Girls etc.

Then, it gets even deeper within THOSE sections when I get third generation with Mazarati, TaMara and the Seen, DayZs, DaKrash/Kool Skool

There is a comprehensive section for NPG and Pisaley Park label acts like Dale Bozzio, Good Question, Tony LeMans, Taja Sevelle, George Clinton, Ingrid Chavez, The Three O Clock, Mavis Staples, Eric Leeds, Jill Jones, Carmen Electra

JoshuaWho said:

Who among us (REAL Prince fans) wouldnt keep Prince in a seperate section? I have seperate racks to hold my Prince CDs and records (yes, vinyl that I bought when those classic 70s and 80s albums and 12 inch singles were FIRST released). I organize my Prince collection chronologically and by source. Official albums started with For You and go in order up to AOA. Then I have a singles collection with remixes and Bside discs.

THen there is the official first generation Prince production/Paisley Park/NPG Records and related section which is comprised of subsections for each artist (ie. sections for The Time, Vanity, Apollonia, Mayte, Sheila E., Andre Cymone, NPG, The Family, Madhouse, etc).

Now, within those subsections, I have second generation such as Brownmark, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Wendy and Lisa, The Girls etc.

Then, it gets even deeper within THOSE sections when I get third generation with Mazarati, TaMara and the Seen, DayZs, DaKrash/Kool Skool

There is a comprehensive section for NPG and Pisaley Park label acts like Dale Bozzio, Good Question, Tony LeMans, Taja Sevelle, George Clinton, Ingrid Chavez, The Three O Clock, Mavis Staples, Eric Leeds, Jill Jones, Carmen Electra

Impressive. I kind of stop caring at the Paisley Park level unless i'm already into the artist. I'll get round to them some day.

SmiggyG said:

I have roughly 850GB of Prince material

You did think about backups?

i think this is a universal "yes" thread as it relates to the OP?! there MIGHT'VE been one "no" but I think this is a first on this site where contrarians just LIVE.

(Yes) In a couple of dedicated Footlockers W/ backups & Very rare stuff!

udo said:

SmiggyG said:

I have roughly 850GB of Prince material

You did think about backups?

Really? Music can be properly "measured" in GBs now? What does that measure even mean to music? Isnt that like trying to a trip in ounces?

JoshuaWho said:

udo said:

You did think about backups?

Really? Music can be properly "measured" in GBs now? What does that measure even mean to music? Isnt that like trying to a trip in ounces?

Ounces? Kilo's!
It just depends.

Music in mp3 versus flac or ape? It makes a difference in the GB's.

Metal in ounces or grams, depending on buying power or perceived rarity.