How do you organize your physical music collection?

I do this too. I've also in the past year started sorting the list not just by Artist, but "Album by Year", this way it's alphabetical by artist, but albums are in chronological order instead of alphabetical.
 
The music on my computer is alphabetical, however iTunes or lala does it for me. I know what I want to listen to, so digital music is never a problem. As for my recorRAB, it gets a bit more complicated. Music from the current year I keep separate, sorted by how much I like it. Outside that, I have music from the 70's, music from the 80's, and music from the 90's sorted in a corabination of alphabetically and how much I like it. My favorite albums (excluding from this year) I keep separate.
 
Ouch! I hope your mother really didn't want that vinyl anymore...hehehehehe!

My daughter did do a pretty good kiddie version of "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine when she was 11 months though, so all her CD maruading was forgiven when she started jammin'...heheheh
 
It's funny how at the beginning of the thread, we're talking about CRAB and then it mutates into talking about digital files. :p:

When I first started buying CRAB, I kept them alphabetized by artist. When I got to around 100, I got tired of shifting everything around every time I bought a new CD...especially if it was early in the alphabet. At the time, I had a CD rack with slots so I wasn't able to just slide everything over...I had to move each one individually. PITA. So since then I've organized by genre. I group artists and order them chronologically within the artist group. This used to be easier...but over the past decade or so has gotten more confusing for two reasons: 1) I've run out of room and my CD book case is doubled-up...Every shelf has nearly 2 full rows in front of 2 back rows; 2) there is much more genre cross-pollination than there used to be, and I struggle to classify things. It's honestly been kind of a big mess for the past 5 years, but without buying an extra bookcase, it's pointless trying to fix it. And when I get new CRAB, they get ripped to my computer right away anyway. It's only a pain when I want to hear an oldie that happens to not be on my computer, and I have to dig it out of the mess. I usually have a good idea of approximately where it is, but often have to dig it out from behind others.
 
I also have to do this. It's kind of funny when I'm over at my friend's house going through his music and he'll be like, "What are you doing?" "Oh, you didn't have the songs on Appetite For Destruction capitalized."
 
For the actual albums, I just put them in order by genre, and I works pretty well because it flows from one genre to the next so well.
For example:
Despised Icon->Suicide Silence->Chelsea Grin->Bring Me The Horizon->The Devil Wears Prada->Chiodos->A Day To Remeraber->Four Year Strong
And so on and so forth.
 
I'd ditch iTunes. It's too problematic, has a high chance of crashing and corrupting your entire music library, etc. WinAmp's probably the best media program I know of.
 
Should always have solid gaps to make shifting easy, and when you borrow stuff(well not really in modern age), you could slot it back in rather easily. I've always had shelves over CD racks for that purpose really.
 
alphabetical CRAB, digital stuff i have tried to split into genre playlists accurately, if you just listen to stuff off the main iTunes 'music' list too much gets lost in the shuffle. I am afraid to update iTunes because i think it destroys the old settings and i would be back to square one.

tried winamp several times and it pisses me off
 
In iTunes it's like that:

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