How Do You Organize Your Music?

As I'm disorganized the best system for me is a simple one. I have one of those IKEA cubed wall units where each cube represents a letter of the alphabet. The key to making this work is NOT to organize alphabetically within each letter as it's way easier to put albums back on the shelf at the end instead of trying to find the exact spot.

This sometimes forces me to browse through sixty or seventy albums to find the one I want, but during the process I often see and take out another old album that I haven't played for years.

This is a fine question.

Thanks, Mariasplunge.

I personally don't have a huge music library yet, but I'm trying to set myself up for success by starting on the right foot. Right now I have the records that I've cleaned so far organized alphabetically by artist, then alphabetically by album. The records that still need to be cleaned (hundreds and hundreds...) are loosely organized by importance of getting cleaned. I constantly have an "on deck" section, and I'll pick whatever strikes my mood from that pile to clean.

CDs are alphabetical by artist, and CDs with more than one artist are filed by the artist that I like more.

-Dusty

I use the 'collectze' software. Each disk gets assigned a number when it is cataloged. I have pre printed numbers on 'dot' lables. Dot lable goes on the disk case. All the disks are shevled in numberical order by number assigned. this way I sort the data base, not the disks. When I pass the 500 mark in each thousand, I print the list. Data base is bakced up to flash drives. The software lets you sort every which way, including all the song titles. wonderful!

Does anyone use color-coding by album cover?