How do you keep your CD's?
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Topic: How do you keep your CD's?
Posted By: Flyingsod
Subject: How do you keep your CD's?
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:35
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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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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:49
| I don't. Went digi-tal. |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:54
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Neatly stacked beside my computer.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 17:58
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I keep them in their original packaging which isn't always a jewel case and alphabetized by artist.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 18:06
All of the above, I think. 
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Posted By: GrimbleGromble
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 18:09
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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 =( |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 18:30
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Haphazardly stacked for me, in cases. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 20:29
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Neatly stacked. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 21:44
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Neatly stacked and highly organized. ------------- 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 22:05
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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.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 23:55
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CDs? In a cabinet under an ever thickening layer of dust. -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 04 2012 at 00:09
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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. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: May 04 2012 at 01:07
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JJLehto wrote:Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: May 04 2012 at 02:45
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Mostly in jewel cases and organized. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Flyingsod
Date Posted: May 04 2012 at 16:41
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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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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 04 2012 at 17:26
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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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 03:00
Just select the option you want and click on "cast your vote" at the bottom of the list
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 03:07
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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. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 03:29
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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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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 04:42
After you have 40 posts. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 04:59
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My CD's are in jewel cases and highly organized. -------------  
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 05:08
I have these wall mounts, but they got filled up and I never bothered to get more...so the rest just started accumulating on my desk. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 05:27
Oeps
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 05:32
| What I can't stand is those shelves or racks with individual slots for each CD, in which if you want to keep some order, everytime you buy a new CD you have to move half of them to make place for it. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 05:36
| In jewel cases and strewn about my apartment. Got Czukay's "Movies" and Mahavishnu Orchestra's IMF in my bedroom drawer, the Mac's "Rumours" and a collection of Bach's pieces right nearby, The Temptations, Bob Marley, Moz., Beet., and Bach in a cell of a "shelf" unit, and Andrea Bocelli in my CD case. What did I forget? |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 06:19
| In a safe, with a gun under my hand. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 06:40
I'm sorry, you keep one of your hands in a safe? (Pardon my dark humor.)
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 06:57
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I have a few hundred CD's, but all the stuff's on the computer and that's how I listen to music mostly. These days I usually buy digitally- the CD's I want are all overseas usually, or are just unjustly expensive here in Israel, so I just buy from Itunes or Bandcamp or what not. The CD's are in shelves in a general clusterf**k, though there is some sort of section for prog and non prog and stuff. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 07:09
I have a rare medical condition which made me born with a third hand that was removed when I was a newly-born. Yet, this hand was kept by the medics as my parents asked them. A few years later, this hand was given back to my family in order to be bewitched. Then, my parents learned me how to use telekinetic powers so I could use this hand as it was my own "Thing", a bit à la Addams Family. So, yes, my third hand is in the safe, armed with a gun. And it DOES know how to aim, thanks to my cosmic third eye. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 07:47
Stuff you gotta do.  I wait until I've got about 10 new CDs to put up though. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: HarmonyDissonan
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 08:09
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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! ------------- Harmony and Dissonance |
Posted By: progresssaurus
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 08:27
| In jewel cases and highly organized (time after time, because it is self-deorganising hussies and I must made New Order periodically) |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 10:24
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In jewel cases haphazardly stacked. I listen to iPod most of the time anyway. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: May 05 2012 at 10:49
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I'm a CD guy and also a bit of a neat freak so every CD has a place. The majority of my collection is on a nice CD spinner in my music room, which has 4 sides. One side is pop/rock/folk/alternative country, one is prog, one is avant/prog / experimental music + a few odds and ends, and one is classical/jazz/electronic/musical/metal/more prog. That's my "display case", I have some more CDs that I still occasionally listen to but don't care to have on display (for the, um, 0 people that have cared so far), it's on another shelf in my closet. I'm going to have to move some more into there soon, because I acquired some new CDs and there's no space left in the spinner. 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).
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Posted By: Flyingsod
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 12:57
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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 :)
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 ;) ------------- This space intentionally left blank |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 13:03
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I've had my Zappa CDs in a separate box for a long time because I ran out of shelf space. Today I found a nice wooden crate to keep them in. Yay! ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: GrimbleGromble
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 13:14
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so for how much do they sell cd's out there guys? it's really not easy to reach good original music in Turkey  |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 13:22
First option. I'm at about 760+ CD's now, and i have 10-20 or so coming in the mail next week 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 13:25
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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. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 15:31
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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. -------------   
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 06 2012 at 16:11
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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: May 10 2012 at 15:05
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In jewel cases neatly stacked.....in cardboard boxes in the attic. I'm renting a room , looking for an apartment, have to wait until I move to an apartment to unpack the cd boxes.
Me too. I had sort of like a "B section" stacked in the wardrobe, the stuff that I rarely listen to.
I had the cds sorted randomly by artist, not alphabetically.
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Posted By: DaveyByTheSea
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 05:18
| 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! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 05:28
"not by the artist personally"  Oh what fun that would be... "Oi! Anderson, your Yes albums are in a terrible mess, get your backside around here immediately and stack them alphabetically or they're not going to get played"... "I don't care how long he's been dead, if someone from the Hendrix Foundation doesn't come to my house and stack his CDs alphabetically then they're going to the Oxfam shop."------------- What? |
Posted By: Flyingsod
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 19:14
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Chris would want to put all the yes albums in the "S" section. ------------- This space intentionally left blank |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 19:22
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 19:39
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Still don't quite get that emoticon. Ping?
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 19:57
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"On display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
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Posted By: Flyingsod
Date Posted: May 17 2012 at 19:05
I don't get that emoticon either but I gotta tell you about your avatar. That sh*t freaks me out dude. ------------- This space intentionally left blank |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 17 2012 at 19:44
| ^ Aye, aye agree. |