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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:42
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Have you ever tried making a pile out of CDs in those nasty little plastic wallets? Everything starts out all hunky dory, then it all starts to get a bit unstable and the whole lot comes crashing to the floor. It's bad enough trying to remove the nth CD from a stack of say 50 without playing an impromptu game of 50 CD pick-up, doing that with CDs in nasty little plastic wallets is a recipe for disaster before you even start. This is before you consider how you ever manage to find anything at all if you can't read the name on the spine because CDs in slipcases don't have spines. No, CDs in nasty little plastic wallets would require a whole new storage solution that would involve some method of intelligent retrieval system, something like the selector in a pre-1970s Wurlitzer juke-box, but with some form of mainframe processing power, probably water-cooled and over-clocked and roughly the size of a family hatch-back, but without the seats. For 29,000 CDs in nasty little plastic wallets that mechanism alone would occupy an area that is beyond the spacial visualisation capabilities of my meager brain to envisage.

Well my friend has chuicked out all his jewel cases.

It depends on the wallets you use i think...he's got big 'uns that take about 6 Cds a "page"......I tyhink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 14:46
Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 15:41
What about taking into account all of the albums that are only available on vinyl?  Those take up a decent bit more space than CDs. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 15:57
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

What about taking into account all of the albums that are only available on vinyl?  Those take up a decent bit more space than CDs. 


An idea that I suggested. But LPs packages are thinner than CDs packages.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 16:01
Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Oh jeez, the homepage says that there are currently 28,795 on PA.

In CD form that would fill up my entire house and then some.


Actually I think it may fill up only a room.
It'd be totally filled, like you cant go in and would have to take off the door.

If anyone would like to get me that many CD's I'll test it!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 16:06
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2010 at 19:41

Convert 'em all to digital and you could store the whole lot on one of these....



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