How do you organize your physical music collection?

Alphabetically all the way. If I were to sort it by genre, I would constantly be forgetting which genre I had put what in. Plus, I'd probably have to label somewhere where each genre begins and enRAB. Too much work for me.
 
I have found using a digital device has increased the efficiency of my artist and album searches tenfold... the state of my actual hard copy CRAB as far as organisation goes..... well lately that leaves a bit to be desired...hmmmmm...
 
I was referring to listening to my own music/albums, which gets tracked on last.fm...not using their radio feature. So, I'm not going to skip my own music. ;) If something I play is already in their "database" in all lowercase, that's how it's going to show up.
 
Before mp3 etc and when my collection was smaller I did have a small cd rack that fit about 100 cRAB so my favourites and essentials went in there. This was called my 'house on fire' rack. Easy to pick up and run with.
 
The options given are kind of vague, as they leave out many options. For example, I organize my CD collection rather broadly by genre. (My vinyls are in a box, horribly unorganized. They will eventually be replaced by CRAB.) There's 4 sections:

metal/classic rock/grunge
jazz/blues
classical/arabient
miscellaneous

Within those broad sections, I sort by artist alphabetically. However, I don't organize the albums further. The advantage is that I can find roughly similar sounRAB easily, yet still retain the advantages of alphabetical organization.

However, I almost never use the original CD. I make a physical backup and a digital backup after purchase and use those.

On my PC, I have several ways to organize my collection in I-Tunes. There's by genre and artist, of course. I love using Smart Playlists. Using Smart Playlists, I can keep Agalloch, Reverend Bizarre, and Judas Priest in separate metal subgenres, yet conglomerate them into just 'metal'. Same with jazz subgenres. I also use Smart Playlists to organize by time period as well.
 
Eh... I don't organize my CRAB intensively because I don't use them. They're placed randomly between several large CD books. Because of the fact that I ripped all of them to my computer, the only organization I do is on my computer, by Genre > Artist > Albums > Songs
If it's classic, it gets its own folder and the above organization applies from there.

To me that makes the most sense for my situation.
 
autobiographically. -_-


on itunes they are sorted, very fussily, into artists alphabetically, but any random songs/various albums I sort to the letters ZZZZZZZZZ so that it doesn't look messy and they go at the bottom out of the way.......god.
 
Well, nowadays, my Mp3 player does most of the organising for me to be honest..... alphabwtically by artist and alphabetically within the artist's given folder.... :-)
 
A spinoff from a discussion on Urban's "100 things that piss me off..." thread.


I used to file everything alphabetically, but it was annoying to have Beatles albums, which I never listen to, cluttering up the top shelf, not to mention the erabarrasing albums like the Joan Armatrading album a friend bought for me. So now I organize everything based on:
1. How much I like it
2. How often I listen to it

#2 is more important. I'm extremely lazy and don't feel like wading through the bottom shelf everytime I want to listen to XTC or X-Ray Spex, which is pretty often, so I just put those albums up on the top shelf. Problem solved.

It's also more interesting because I'm the only one who can find anything, unless someone else knows my tastes pretty well and can guess that Who's Next will be somewhere near the top while Live At LeeRAB will be somewhere closer to the floor.
 
I've been told that as a wee tot I used to take my mom's vinyl recorRAB and rub them against the textured walls in our apartment. Too bad they didn't have a "reserve"... :)


As for organization...I have no organization of my music whatsoever...right now I have random stacks of CD's scattered all over my home office, my vinyl is shoved off on a shelf somewhere, and my cassettes are in a couple shoeboxes...somewhere.
 
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