How Do You Organize Your Music?


Depending on how much music you have, I'm sure everyone organizes their music a little differently. Do you separate by genre, then alphabetize? Do you have a chronological system? Do you tab where the next letter starts?

I'm curious to know how people with huge music libraries catalogue their music. Digital music can be very easy to organize if you have accurate ID3 tags, but what do you do with your CDs and LPs?
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My OCD (self-diagnosed) is cause for deep consternation in this area. I want to sort by genre, alpha, then chron, but each has it's own dilemma. For example ...
GENRE: Muddy is Blues, but how about Fleetwod Mac with Green? And then what if I have Fleetwood Mac without Green?
ALPHA: Reverend Horton Heat, none of which is his real name, so sort under Rev.? Horton? Heat? Heath (Jim, actual name)?
CHRON: Recorded or realeased date - could span years? Collections - again, could span years?
Arrrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!
I don't - every CD is available using a search function from listening chair...nothing is ever more than a "click" away.
Used to be alphabetical. After we moved into our new home, they just got placed in the cabinets to make space available to move around in. They're rather mixed up, but I know where the records are, and where the Cd's are. I'm actually starting to remember where most of the artists are in the cabinets. Should get organized, though...
Bibliomantically. Subsequent to listening, I toss each record like a yarrow stick and place it in whichever of my eight different piles it lands nearest. Naturally, each record is, itself, determined to be in one of eight different categories, according to whether its yin and yang are old, new, or some combination of the two.
Then, through divination achieved by scrutinizing this new configuration, I determine what to listen to, next.
Of course it takes years of training before one can do this, properly. Best to adopt Confucius' dictum and not adopt this technique until one's later years.
I hope this helps.