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.
How do you arrange the order of your records?
I guess some alphabetically. Some by genre. By quality. Etc.
My preference is keeping them randomly arranged. This way I get a nice variety and I don’t have to choose. And it’s always a nice surprise.
I take them out about ten at a time and place them in a dedicated space between my mono blocks.