How organized are you with your music

Organized? Absolutely!

Everyone of my discs are in my house.

Somewhere.

I'm a heck of a taker outer, and very bad at being a putter backer.

Consequently, switching into hard drive based music playback has been uh... better. Apart from the 3 or 4 ROM Drives I went through ripping everything.... a few times. Backing up? see putting backer. But I'm backed up now. Definitely!

But I still have a mega changer and will add another.

Same way for DVDs... my latest gig is putting all my top/fav DVDs onto a pair of hard drives. One is a NAS, and it's cool to fire up the laptop and watch a flick or play some music whereever.

Mac.... tex
Do consider ripping those records into 24/96 or better.

by geography....sf, la, northwest, texas, boston, new york, michigan, chicago, sotheast, midwest, germany, etc.

Oregon...by FIRST name...really? That's a first. Don't you have gobs of different artists under common names like John or Steve?

Synthfreek,
Yes. Lots of John Lennon, Coltrane, Mayall, Johan, etc. A Clockwork Orange is the first one, ZZ Top last (I just looked). The beauty is I can find them within a minute.
I tried genres, colors, moon phases, mothers maiden name.
What's nice and truly remarkable is when I host an audiophile session, and an Audiofoo member asks, "hey, you got 'Fire' by Arthur Brown, mannnn?" Before the slobber hits the carpet, all the other foos will tell him it's under A because Mike keeps all his LPs in... and the dude, or dudienne (not dudette, a friend wrote a research paper on this very subject) can find it themselves and I can sit comfortably sipping, smoking and working on a pressure sore.
Just living the life, baby.