How organized are you with your music

Ignore "the" and "A".
If you can't figure that one out on your own, I suggest Audiofeil's recommendation.

1. Alphabetical. "The Beatles" filed under B; "50 Foot Wave" filed prior to the A's; "Bob Dylan" filed under D.
2. Date of album's original release
3. Date of that copy of the album's pressing (ie original first, reissues after)

I don't classify by style or any other method, and use the same system for both CD's and vinyl.

With that system, I can find anything in a flash. Only problem is...when things are so well organized, it can be easy to skip over that one Folk Implosion album you have in there and pay more attention than you'd expect to the big collection of Belle & Sebastien albums. But then there are days that I just get in a mood to pick out one-off albums, like today when I pulled out Fishbone's "Truth and Soul" for the first time in a few years...

Mine is organized in a simple fashion by name or last name of an individual artist by category:

Rock
Jazz
Classical
Show
Country/folk/bluegrass

Does anyone have a good electronic cataloging system. I was using "cardfile" but the software was discontinued.

When I first started dating my future wife, she made fun of how organized my LP & CD collections were. So I thought she has a point and let them get completely disorganized. I then found myself wanting to listen to piece X and spending literally ten minutes looking for the damn recording. So I went back to organization. It just saves time.

I just have them in a special box, and also a backup on computer hard drives. Ordered by size.