@shotgunshane I originally had by last name as well, but due to matching Discogs and other services, I switched to first name a while back. Tried organizing by genre for awhile, but got to be a pain to decide for stuff that didn't fall into obvious category.
Sorted by Last Name and Original Release Date. I match this physical sorting in the sorting tags for my digital music, but the only software that seems to reliably respect that is the Sony Walkman. I also ignore articles like A, An, The. Where things get more contentious are ignoring articles in other languages (Le, La, El), or does Bonnie Prince Billy go under Bi, Bo, or O...
I have a dual system: one shelf, things I want to play soon, no specific order; then they rotate out to the shelves organized by first name.
During the 2020 lockdowns I had a moment of insanity and resorted everything alphabetically by primary color on the jacket/case. I didn't realize how many blue records I had...
I dunno why you guys bother sorting into *26 completely unrelated categories. I sort into three groups 1) good albums, 2) albums with one good song, and 3) all the rest. (sometimes the forth is "I don't remember")
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