Cataloging Question

you didnt waste my time....but if you look at my first reply, I mentioned to put all the albums together so it would be easier to find them when you want to listen to them.         
 then you made the comment of  the other artists and whether it be solo stuff or group stuff and where to put it......and again, just put it all under one artist.     
but I make the comment of that you are making more out of this and you got all bent out of shape.   

what I dont get is what does it matter how you catalog your albums or the next person does theirs.   if they do theirs a different way then you do, are you now going to change yours around to be like theirs now ?       

If its a group, it goes by the name of the group: ie, The Eagles under E.
If its an artist, it goes by the name of the artist: ie, Don Henley under H.
My parents taught me this, as their parents taught them. Kids in the one-room schoolhouse on the prairie learned this even before Sears & Roebuck started delivering gramophones. This is the extent to which our schools have dumbed us all down.

Well, not all.

Alphabetical order is good, but not really great for me. I don't want to look for Bryan Ferry knowing I can find his stuff in the Roxy music section also I don't want to look for just Chick Corea. I want to look first in the Jazz section that I have. My catalog is over 6000 records.

 I would put it under “R” —  but if I thought there was a likelihood of confusion, I would put an index card in the appropriate place with a cross reference to other locations. Yes, you could call me anal, but it works. 

Go to the Library Of Congress' website and see how they catalog their albums? (Probably cross referenced six ways to Sunday). That way if you forget where something is you'll at least have a reference to help you sort it out. And yes, I have been known to overthink things sometimes. LOL