Music Organization.

I keep my albums sorted in to 33 different genre folders.  Some are somewhat specific ("IDM"), some are catch-alls, vaguer... ("Rock - Harder").

The latest genre folder to be created? "Early 20th century"
I have started gathering albums from before 1950.  Only 22 albums there so far, not a lot of selection, but some really really amazing music...
Alessandro Moreschi - The Last Castrato (Complete Vatican Recordings)
Benny Goodman - Live At Carnegie Hall 1938 (2 CD)
Benny Goodman - Stompin'
Cab Calloway - Best of the Big Bands
Cab Calloway - The Best of Big Bands, Cab Calloway ft Leon 'Chu' Berry
Chants de la Guerre d'Espagne
Charley Patton - Complete Recordings 1929-1934 (5 cd)
Jelly Roll Morton - Last Sessions; The Complete General Recordings
Lead Belly - Last Sessions (4 LP) (1948)
Sato Chiyako - Japanese 1920's
VA - American Primitive Vol. I; Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36) (1997)
VA - Baby, How Can It Be (Songs Of Love, Lust And Contempt From The 1920s And 1930s)
VA - History Of Carnival; Christmas, Carnival, Calenda and Calypso from Trinidad, 1933-1939
VA - Junkers, Jivers & Coke Fiends (Vintage Songs about Drugs 1926-1952)
VA - Old Time Mountain Banjo (2005)
VA - People Take Warning; Murder Ballads & Songs of Disaster 1913-1938 (3 CD)
VA - Pop Music, The Early Years 1890-1950 (2 CD)
VA - The Best of Big Band Vol 1 (2004)
VA - The Best of Big Band Vol 2 (2004)
VA - The Best of Big Band Vol 3 (2004)
VA - The Best of Big Band Vol 4 (2004)
VA-  American Primitive Vol. II; Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) (2 CD) (2005)


2 new specialization genres have arisen.  Don't laugh...
But my "Soundtracks" folder (now 80 albums) now has an offshoot:  "Soundtrack; musicals"  (19 albums...)
My "Spoken Word" albums also dropped an offshoot, "Spoken Word; audiobooks" (43 albums), as a way of separating proper book readings from all of the other spoken word weirdness I have.

A few unexpectedly heavily populated genre folders...
Indigenous, Traditional, World:  195 albums.
Electro-acoustic, Tape Music:  170 albums.
Kids Music:  40 albums.
Noise & Experimental:  604 albums.


The other new-ish genre folder:  "Field Recordings".  84 albums.  Here in all their glory...
5_4 - Podcast #2; Dawn Chorus, 24 May 2010 (2010)
Aki Onda - Bon Voyage! Cassette Memories, Vol. 2 (2003)
Akira Rabelais - Hollywood (2008)
An Anthology of Over 200 American Bird Songs (1980)
Animals of Africa - Sounds of the Jungle, Plain & Bush
Anton Mobin - Floating Wood
Bad Radio Dog Massacre - Dog Pound Found Sound
Bernard Fort - Paysages Canadiens (Canadian Soundscapes) (1995)
Bernie Krause & Ruth Happel - Midsummer Nights (2002)
Bernie Krause - Mountain Stream (1988)
Bernie Krause - The Nature Company Environmental Sounds Collection (3 CD)
Bill Fontana - Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns (1982)
Birds Of Venezuela (1973)
Bruits et Ambiances d'Afrique No. 1
Bruits et Ambiances d'Afrique No. 2
Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen - Storm (2006)
Chris Watson + Jana Winderen - Holystone (2006)
Chris Watson - Cima Verde (2008)
Chris Watson - Outside The Circle Of Fire
Chris Watson - Stepping Into the Dark (2009)
Chris Watson - The Galapagos Islands, An Audio Diary (2005).mp3
Chris Watson - Weather Report (2003)
Coney Island In Stereo (1960)
Dan Gibson - Solitudes Volume 10 (1985)
Dan Gibson - Solitudes Volume 2
Dan Gibson - Solitudes Volume 6 (1982)
Dan Hower - 80s Arcades (14 CD)
Daniel Menche - Raw Fall (2010)
Diesel Hydraulics on the Western Region (1975)
Donald J. Borror - Songs of Western Birds (1971)
Douglas Quin - Madagascar, The Fragile Land; Wild Sanctuary (1998)
Douglas Quinn - Antarctica
Dr. Roger S. Payne - Deep Voices The Second Whale Record
Echoes OF Nature - Bayou (1994)
Echoes Of Nature - Ocean Waves (1992)
Environmental Sounds - Nature's Music... Recorded Live On This Planet
Iron Horse Rambles
Jean C. Roche - A Nocturne Of Nightingales
Jean C. Roché & Bill H. Gunn - Les Loups en Liberté (Wailing Wolves From Canada & France) (1994)
Jean C. Roché - Le Monde des Singes (Afrique, Asie, Amerique; Primate World) (1994)
JM Charcot - Cambodge (2010)
Jodi Rose - Singing Bridges (2007) (3 CD)
Jondi Productions - Ocean
Juanjo Palacios - Borde Litoral (2010)
Kenneth Granville Attwood - Memories of Steam
Kiyoshi Mizutani - Bird Songs (2000)
Kiyoshi Mizutani - Scenery Of The Border (2 CD) (2005)
Les Sonnailles (2000)
Listen To My Cat's Purr
Machinefabriek - Tapes Of The Day (2008)
MZ-N710 - Paysages Ferroviaires (2010)
National Geographic Society - Guide to Bird Sounds (4 LP)
Nature Recordings - Dawn & Dusk In The Ventana Wilderness (1986)
Nature Recordings - Mountain Stream (1985)
Nature Recordings - Thunderstorm In The Big Sur Mountains (1986)
Nature's Relaxing Sounds - Song of the Whales (1988; 1995)
Neil Feather - Revelation of An Anaplumb (1998)
Newfoundland Heads the Waverley (1962)
NorthSound - Loon Talk (1992)
Philippe Vilain - Field Recordings
Railroad Sounds - Steam and Diesel (1958)
Relax With Nature - Forest Raindrops
Relax With Nature - Mountain Stream
Rostov Chimes (1985)
Rudolv Eb.er & Joke Lanz - Akustische Aktion (Essen) (2001)
Simon Whetham & VA - Active Crossover (2010)
Sounds of Nature - Amazon Rainforest
Sounds of Nature - Sounds of the Dolphin (1991)
Sounds of Nature - Sounds of the Jungle
Sounds of Nature - The Sounds of a Sun Filled Stream (A Babbling Brook) (1988)
Sports Car Caravan
Storm Sounds
Sui Kin Kutsu - Autumn (2003)
Sui Kin Kutsu - Spring (2003)
The Conet Project - Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations
The Relaxation Collection - Mountain Retreat
The Sounds Of Nature - Electrifying Thunderstorms
The Sounds Of Nature - The Cry of the Loon
The Vancouver Soundscape (1973)
Toshiya Tsunoda - Extract From Field Recording Archive # 1 (1997)
Urban Bird Sounds Project
Voices Of The Earth
Walter Marchetti - The Bird Of Paradise (2001)
Xarhope On The Road - Cairo Mall (2010)