How do you keep your CD's?

darkshade wrote: Flyingsod wrote: Chris would want to put all the yes albums in the "S" section.

 I don't get that emoticon either but I gotta tell you about your avatar. That sh*t freaks me out dude.

Still don't quite get that emoticon. Ping?
Oh and I currently keep 30 Scandinavian prog rock records in my sock drawer, because I felt like it.

Chris would want to put all the yes albums in the "S" section.

CD's in jewel cases alphabetically stacked by artist ( not by the artist personally!). Then ripped on to PC ( which shamefully replaced my hi-fi ).....then...burnt onto a portable hard drive and stored in a fireproof box!!!! just in case...would cost a fortune to replace 1000+  cd's!

Catcher10 wrote: Even though I am a vinyl guy....I keep my collection of about 300 CDs in the cases and only grouped by artist, not in any order. Other than to keep my wifes separate from mine for her to find easily. They are all stored in an old wooden office file cabinet, 2 drawers for CD's the other drawers have assorted cables and audio stuff. Once ripped to my Zune software I load it on my Zune device for mobile listening or stream the music to my system from the software. I rarely play actual CDs anymore....but I am looking for a new CDP, current one is dying.

If you're not playing CDs much then buy a cheap $100 DVD player - the DACs in those are as good as any $500 CD player (because they are designed for 24-bit operations so are smooth as silk at 16-bit) and if you get the right one you can play DVD-audio, which is far superior to CD in bit depth and sample rate.

I keep them in the house.....


Alright bad joke aside, I have cds all over the place. Stacks in the kitchen, bedroom and all over the livingroom. I do keep them in their cases, but as far as order goes, the only ones I've bundled up together, as in stacked together in the same room, are my Krautrock albums as well as my Italian collection. Other than those, it is a complete and utter chaos. It's the same way with all my books, but somehow I know where everything is.

so for how much do they sell cd's out there guys?
it's really not easy to reach good original music in Turkey

Some of you brought up a damn good point.... Browsing. I too often end up with things in hand I had not intended to pick up. That and the idea that some things might not ever get noticed or listened to again has pretty much nixed my thoughts of a binder.
 My personal "System" is much Like yours Dean except I would never dream of organizing by colour... The way I find things (vinyl and CD) is by knowing what stack they are in and roughly knowing what colour they are. And sometimes knowing the one I want is next to a Blue/white spine that's under a gold scrolly coloured spine. Grouping by colour would KILL my system :)

TheGazzardian wrote: I also have a CD wallet, which is full mostly of CDs I don't care about / will never listen to again. I put them in there years ago when I lived in my apartment and didn't have space to keep all my jewel cases. I regret it because the ones I still care about, I'd like to have on a shelf, and the rest I'd like to sell. (Although, my experience with selling CDs is you regret it later, if you enjoyed the album even a little bit while you owned it, so maybe it's better that I can't).

 I have never sold a single piece of music. Not even that horrible Blink 182 cd I ended up with. Or the Magma cd which I have been threatening to sell for 2 dollars since my BBS fidonet days (20 years ago). Of course if you want the Blink 182 CD I would probably trade ;)

In jewel cases haphazardly stacked.

I listen to iPod most of the time anyway.

I try to keep them organized in their jewel cases. I just took off of work one day to organize them after purchasing a new storage case and letting my new cd's go un-alphabetized and random for far too long. procrastinating will kill me one day!