I was referring to listening to my own music/albums, which gets tracked on last.fm...not using their radio feature. So, I'm not going to skip my own music. ;) If something I play is already in their "database" in all lowercase, that's how it's going to show up.

Oh, oh. I understand. ^_^ That sucks. xD

The music on my computer is alphabetical, however iTunes or lala does it for me. I know what I want to listen to, so digital music is never a problem. As for my records, it gets a bit more complicated. Music from the current year I keep separate, sorted by how much I like it. Outside that, I have music from the 70's, music from the 80's, and music from the 90's sorted in a combination of alphabetically and how much I like it. My favorite albums (excluding from this year) I keep separate.

V That's how it happens usually, the colors play a big role in this.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...-capture-7.png

All my music is organized by artist then album ... i don't keep many single songs ... the ones i do have just kinda get lumped into the root of my Music folder ... i'm definitely an album kind of listener ...

What do your colours mean? I also do colour-coding on my mac :D

Always nice to not be alone :P I got so happy when I discovered the color markings in mac, cause I used to do them on paper lol.

I use Red - Orange - Yellow, and each section has its own explanation:

Full Discographies Folder:

Red >> Listened to all their albums [The albums in that case are marked in Red]
Yellow >> Listened to the ones marked [As 'listen' I mean more than basic shallow listening]

Unfinished Discographies:

Red >> The discographies I got nearly finished
Orange >> My 60s Psych Artists
Yellow >> In case of empty folders in my discographies, I mark the ones I have in Yellow

M [or my scattered songs, but still in Artist folders]

Red >> The ones I should seek

What do your colors mean?

Chronological.

Hardly at all...

all the rubbish albums I don't like anymore go in a draw out of the way, and my CD shelf is just in a pretty random order - except some bands are vaguely grouped together from ages ago when I got half way through organizing them and then got bored. Also, there are rubber ducks amongst my CDs on my shelf - dunno why, but it looks good.

As for digital, just the basic alphabetical layout that iTunes does.

You've got some capitalization issues going on there. :p:

Personally when it comes to digital organization, it's just artist folder and album folders within that. I don't see a need to complicate it beyond that (and I'm not criticizing those that do). Comps are in a Compilations folder, with the title of the comp for each folder. I keep everything nice and organized in iTunes and my actual folders reflect that same organization.