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...
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...