How do you arrange the order of your records?

Chaos.  Hunt and discover.  1500 vinyl and 3500 cds,  all CDs displayed horizontal so the titles can be read in the storage drawers and rack.  If I want a specific disc, I stream it via Quobuz or Idagio.  Hi-rotation CDs make a small pile in a shelf.  I do not have the energy to create an organization.  Having search the vinyl so many times, I have a rough idea where some records are. 

Three groups, single album by Artist/alpha, and multiple albums by Artist/alpha/order of release all mixed genre. Jazz in its own territory.

My LP collection I divided into categories: Comedy/Spoken Word; Folk/Ethnic Music; Show Tunes/Original Cast/Soundtrack Albums; Classical; Jazz; Rock/Pop, all alphabetical within each section. From the start with my CD collection, I just lumped all music CDs together alphabetically, the only ones separated out into a separate category being spoken word. I store CDs in Leslie Dame spinner towers that hold 1000 discs apiece, of which I now have four, the fourth half full at this point. My greatest eccentricity is that I sort discs alphabetically right to left instead of left to right like a Christian, as if you stacked them on top of each other and turned them on their side. I sort my books the same way. Why I started doing it this way is lost to the fog of time except that it just seemed logical to me.

This topic comes up here fairly regularly. Over the years of amassing LP’s (and/or CD’s), everyone finds what works for them. As long as you can find what you want, it doesn’t matter, does it? Unless you want your arrangement to make a statement about you. ;-)

When I started out I separated Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz, ---and of course Classical (how could one not?). That didn’t last long. What’s the point of separating by genre? For those moments when you’re in the mood for, say, Blues, but don’t know what to play, needing to "browse"? That’s not how I relate to music.

My racks are genre-free: alpha by artist, then chronological. Various artists comps by title. Classical alpha by composer, then composition title and number (concertos, sonatas, symphonies, etc.), and finally performer (for those compositions of which I have multiple interpretations).

The only exception I make is for the catalogues of certain audiophile labels, ones known more for the sound than the music: Sheffield, Reference Recordings (some titles are exceptions), Chesky (ditto), Wilson, etc. "Audiophile" reissues (MoFi, Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, Intervention, etc.) are in with the non-audiophile pressings.

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...