I got to thinking about the order of how I've been ripping my CD collection (since it was completely unripped before buying the empeg), and I'm curious to know how you all ripped your collections. Did you go alphabetically? By genre? Random according to mood? Reverse date of purchase?

I found I was going in a pretty random manner -- I'd just pull a CD off my shelf, and go rip. My CDs aren't in any particular order on the shelf, either. The only exception to the randomness has been with my classical CDs, which I saved till the end because tagging them was going to be a pain in the butt (which I'm going through now).