How do you arrange the order of your records?

If you were here and let’s say you wanted to hear Miles Davis kind of Blue LP, better give me at least an hour, maybe 2, to locate it lol...records all stored randomly with absolutely no rhyme or reason. There are just too many of them and it would be too daunting a task to organize them all. I could basically open my own record shop with all the LP’s I own. Whenever I say to myself to stop collecting or buying, I see something else that I like or have been looking for and buy it. It most likely will not end. It's not as if my collection is strewn about the floor in a chaotic mess, they are in fact neatly stored in a variety of ways. Some on wall hanging shelves, some on floor standing shelves, others in countless record crates on the floor in several rooms etc...

@mikelavigne 8 tons of records! My hat is off to you sir.

My organizer of choice is Roon.

I have only 2 categories….Classical, and Everything Else.
Classical is alphabetical by composer, with solo instrumental followed by chamber, concertos, symphonies, choral/oratorio/opera for each composer. 

EE is by band name or artist last name, and release date.

Only 3K or so, so I keep 'em in random order (with the exception of a few set runs such as Venus Jazz and Music Matters, which I keep together just for the heck of it).  Otherwise I just ignore everything more than a year old unless I really want to find something, which I might be successful at before I die.

@mrskeptic Thank you! I'm not the only one! 😀 I call it my OCD. The only downside is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ends up separated from Petty, Tom. I can live with it.

Yeah I have oddball things in their own little sections (Box sets, cleaning queue, 7", the few Rap or Classical LP) but the rest in alphabetical order.

As mentioned above, putting 78 Shellac records in their own section seems like a good idea as well. They require different playback gear. I don't own any but that was good food for thought.