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Flyingsod
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Topic: How do you keep your CD's? Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:35 |
I'm looking to shrink the amount of space my CD's are taking up. I don't mind the records taking up tons of space but the CD's are starting to annoy me. There's plenty of way to store them I guess. If I missed any add them in the comments.
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Textbook
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:49 |
I don't. Went digi-tal.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:54 |
Neatly stacked beside my computer.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:58 |
I keep them in their original packaging which isn't always a jewel case and alphabetized by artist.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 18:06 |
All of the above, I think.
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GrimbleGromble
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 18:09 |
original cd's are in their original jewel cases. but the most valuable two (Mirage and 2112, i couldn't find them in Turkey and my bf ordered them from Amazon for me) are also in plastic bags. cd's are divided into band-based groups and ordered with their dates. and the large part of my archive is in digital... (i don't know how to vote =(
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Man With Hat
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 18:30 |
Haphazardly stacked for me, in cases.
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 20:29 |
Neatly stacked.
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The T
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 21:44 |
Neatly stacked and highly organized.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 22:05 |
In jewel cases on a large shelving system from IKEA. Alphabetized by artist, all genres mixed together. I like to keep them filed away as much as I can. Easy because most of my day to day listening is on the iPod.
Edited by HolyMoly - May 03 2012 at 22:06
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 23:55 |
CDs? In a cabinet under an ever thickening layer of dust.
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JJLehto
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 00:09 |
I can't vote because mine is a combo of the first 2.
All in jewel cases and half are very organized (artist and release order) the other half is neatly stacked.
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darkshade
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 01:07 |
JJLehto wrote:
All in jewel cases and half are very organized (artist and release order) the other half is neatly stacked.
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irrelevant
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 02:45 |
Mostly in jewel cases and organized.
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Flyingsod
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 16:41 |
I assumed most proggers would be pretty organized about them. I am surprised no one keeps them in binders though. That's what I was thinking of doing... binders and cd changer. mine are haphazardly stacked and strewn about but all are in their jewel case.
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Dean
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 17:26 |
My CDs are disorganised by apparent pseudo-random chaos, though there is a little method in the madness, not enough to call a system - all Pink Floyd and Philip Glass are contained in their respective grouping, though there is no special catalogue order within those groupings, some CDs were by spine colour but that looked too neat, all Peaceville label artists are grouped together and ... erm, that's it - the rest are more or less random and located in the living room and dinning room (I have all my 45s in a suitcase the 3rd bedroom - no rhyme or reason to that, it's where the removal men placed them and I just haven't felt the need to play any of them since moving house 9 years ago). I don't need a system because I know roughly where they are, and in looking I may find another CD that's more interesting. Neatness and order bugs me - like reverse OCD (which has probably got a fancy name and a cool TLA but it's really just liking being untidy and messy) - and I'm also too lazy to catalogue and file things - I tried it once ... then bought one more Tori Amos CD and had to shuffle every CD from Anathema onwards along one place. Nah, that's not for me.
Edited by Dean - May 04 2012 at 17:29
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Gerinski
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 03:00 |
GrimbleGromble wrote:
(i don't know how to vote =(
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Just select the option you want and click on "cast your vote" at the bottom of the list
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 03:07 |
I had a girlfriend who kept her CDs in one of those books with plastic sleeves. I just can't do it, it defaces the disc and trivializes the notes. Reminds me of when people used to stack their wax or put their 45s in those metal racks. Shameful.
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Gerinski
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 03:29 |
All in jewel cases. Yes they take a lot of space but it's the only way you can visually survey through them without having to physically search. I feel that if I had them in binders, many of them would remain unlistened for very long simply because I would not take the time to search through the binders. Having them in their cases allows me to just go through visually through them and pick some to listen to, frequently not the one I was thinking of listening.
They are more or less organized by genres, there is the area of symphonic, the area of jazz-rock fusion, the area of prog metal etc. Genres are of course fuzzy so there is no objective ordering, another person would place some bands in some other place, but I know in which area each band is. Within each genre area there is no particular ordering of the bands but broadly they go left to right from the most prominent bands (or the bands I have most albums from) to the least, so for example in the symphonic area I have first from the left Yes, Genesis, ELP, PF, Camel etc and on the right end the obscure bands of which I have only one album. Related artists are usually together, so for example Squire or Howe solo albums come after Yes.
And within each band or artist the albums are ordered chronologically.
Having said that, there's always a pool of quite many CDs scattered all around the place, not to mention my car which is a real mess. Many jewel cases are cracked because I always have a lot of CDs thrown in the trunk of the car, then I go shopping and put something heavy on top and... voila, cracked case again
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irrelevant
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Posted: May 05 2012 at 04:42 |
Gerinski wrote:
GrimbleGromble wrote:
(i don't know how to vote =(
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After you have 40 posts.
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