How organized are you with your music

The majority of my CD's (2400+)are in boxes in storage. Everything is ripped to a music server which feeds several squeezeboxes including a highly modified SB2. Organizing, alphabetizing got to be a real PITA. Now, I can find any disc in seconds and don;t have to worry about putting it back. (see above). FYI - my music server, and it's two external laptop drives, is totally silent, cost pennies a day to run and takes up about as much space as the average paper back book.

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.

Not organized at all. The artists are grouped, but that's about it. I find that when I'm looking for a certain one, sometimes I have to go throught them all, maybe twice, but during the search I'll run across something I haven't listened to in a long time, and will give it a spin. I may forget about who I was trying to find initially. I know it's crazy, but where most people know right where to look, they may never play others because they weren't looked over.

I have around 800-900 lp's, I'm guessing 400-500 cd's. One cassette tape.

What do folks do when bands or flicks are named A... ?? or The... ??

I'm always torn between keeping or dropping the A & The from the names... yet thereafter I can fail to remeember I did..... but there's sooooo many A's & The's.