How do you arrange the order of your records?

@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.

I have been using CLZ Music app to identify the ‘bin’ location of each album. It took me sometime to key in my library of physical media but it was worth it. Saved me a huge headache of physical organization :-) 

I keep them in order by how I know the album. Most are by artist but things like 1812 Overture are grouped together no matter who the artist is.

And I have a deck of punched cards where each card has the album info punched in it. I wrote a COBOL program to list the deck in different sequences. Hard to run the program these days. 😊

Like has been said already, I first organize by major genre.  Then by artist's last name if it's a solo artiest, or if it's a band, the first word of the band name, ignoring articles like "the".  Fortunately I don't own any albums by The The, because I'd have no idea where that would go...

Maybe a more important question is this: If you use outer sleeves, which way does the opening face?  Up, down, sideways same direction as the sleeve opening, sideways opposite sleeve opening... 😀

Alphabetical by band/artist, then chronological inside that.

Jazz are separate as is Classical.

However, Classical is a bit of a problem isn't it?

Do you sort by composer? By conductor? By performer?

I've inherited my father's 3,400 LP collection of mostly classical. This is now an issue for me!

Help! 😄

Happy listening...