BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?

Subject: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 07:16 PM

I want to free up some floor space in our bedroom, so am getting rid of the metal, stackable, sit-on-top-of-something CD racks. I am looking for something decorative (boxes, maybe?) which I can still stack on something, BUT have it look nicer and more uncluttered with a more uniform look. Any suggestions? What's your fav. ways to store yours?

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 07:45 PM

After months of cajoling, Jacqui talked me into building one. It takes up very little space yet it holds dozens of CDs, tapes and Videos.
PM your e mail and I'll send a photo.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:07 PM

Uh...I do the stack thing....lol. A CD tower?

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:10 PM

In a pile.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:11 PM

That's not really my favourite way, but that's the way it ends up.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:23 PM

6' high, 2' wide, 7" deep pine shelf unit with each shelf 5.5" high (11 shelves). Naturally, I've outgrown it, so there are piles elsewhere. I do keep them in alphabetical order by artist/band name, except for those which are in the current listening pile.

Seeing the name on the spines, as small as that can be, is important to me. Unlike my kids, I keep them in their cases.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:24 PM

Toss them in a drawer.

Mine are with the linen napkins (less than 30 musical CDs (two from your pops in Utah) more than 100 napkins that need starch and ironing after each use.)- you might try stuffing yours in the drawer with your husband's drawers. Shoe boxes in the closet work well for computer programs.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:36 PM

"Unlike my kids, I keep them in their cases."

Fancy. You got cases.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:56 PM

You IS a case man!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 11:53 PM

200 gig, external hard-drive... ripped as mp3s.... I currently have 65.7 gigs of MP3s... (And way more on the way) If they were all plysical CDs, I'd be up to my eyes in them....

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 12:23 AM

I can tell you HOW NOT TO STORE THEM...

Joe left several CDs in the car one day
Above the sun visor, on a hot, hot day
Now Joe is much wiser, but also sadder today
He still has the CDs, but they no longer play

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 03:30 AM

The Ikea store does a great selection of CD storage options. We have the stacking drawers in natural wood which can be stored horizontally or vertically... being square, the drawers can go either way. We also have a selection of black ash/plastic drawers but I'm trying to phase them out.. they're ugly but they do the job.

Scroll down to small storage then click on media accessories.


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:01 AM

An old chest of drawers.
Different drawer of different size for different genres,lots of room tidy ,out of harms way.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 04:44 AM

Great suggestions, folks, thanks!

I like the idea of putting them in a drawer. I have my dad's old highboy . I think I could empty one of the drawers and try that; don't know if it will hold them all.:-)

CH, I like your idea, too! Rog has told me out PC has enough storage that I could put them all on there and there'd be room to spare. I'll have to think about that.

LTS, thanks for the link! I really like the wall shelf, but I'd have to get so many!:-)

Thanks, again,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:08 AM

I host a radio program and I have a rather large library due to almost daily submissions from artists.   Storage became a big issue, until I found a product called Jewel Sleeves.   They are plastic envelopes in which you can store the CD, the booklet AND the tray card. There is also a space for a small label in which you write the CD information. They take about 1/4 the space of a regular jewel case, and they don't break! I store all my CD's on shelves in alphabetical order, something that would be nearly impossible to do with jewel cases without constantly re-arranging the cases.

There are two "downsides", although one is not so bad.   Everyone gets used to looking at the spine of the jewel case when CD's are stored on a shelf.   Because the jewelsleeve is so thin, there is no spine to speak of.   However, because it is so easy to store alphabetically, it is simply a matter of running a finger across the top of the sleeves on the shelf to see the label and find what I want. I'm proud to say that I can find any CD in my collection within seconds, providing I remember how to spell!!

The other downside is the price, they are $.40 each. My library contains several thousand CD's so it was a bit of an investment.   Still, for me it was well worth the cost since it saved shelf space and keeps the clutter down.

You can check them out online at wwww.jewelsleeve.com

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 01:26 PM

" CH, I like your idea, too!"

Just remember, that all Hard Drives will ONE day fail... That's why I got an external drive... It's used for back-up and storage of MP3s, important files, and stuff your mom wouldn't apporve of!

And it keeps the main HD free to run faster

:-)

Ron... that's a cool piece of kit.... I have a few chums with HUGE collections that I'm gonna pass that on to!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Cluin
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 07:12 PM

You can also burn those MP3s to CD-R, fitting a lot more music on each one, thereby limiting the overall number of discs to store and organize. Your DVD player should play an MP3 disc, no problem.

A lot of work and then of course you'd have to get rid of the originals, or the whole original purpose will have been defeated.

More than I'm willing to do. I'm considering devoting a whole wall to build a storage unit for all my CDs. Love to get around to converting all my old vinyl to CD, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:04 PM

First of all, the "jewel cases" have to go... I ordwer these clear plastic jackets that have two slots on the bottom which run on two tracks... I can store a hundred CD's in less space than a shoe box takes up... Plus, since each CD has these slots in its jacket, I can move them to keep them alphbetized...

Seein' as I'm in the midst of movin' I can't lay my fingers on the name of the company that sells these but they are the bee's knees.. I have well over 500 CD's, prolly more, that take up very little space and are easy, easy to keep in order...

Yeah, I keep the jewel cases in boxes in case I ever want the back cover artwork but to tell ya the truth, the front cover works just fine and has all the linear notes in it...

One day, I'll probably just ditch the boxes with the ol' jewel cases...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 08:06 PM

Does anybody know where to get those plastic clip things that they build into furniture to slide the jewel cases into?

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 09:21 PM

www.jewelsleeve.com

The link to the website that I mentioned earlier.    Jewelsleeves are different from any other plastic sleeve that I found because you can store the disc, booklet and traycard without having to lose any of the pieces or trim them.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 09:28 PM

Ron, those are really neat! Thanks.

Bobert, I would like to see the ones you use, too, when you get the time.

For now, I've got greg to thank for being the first to suggest a dresser drawer. I've cleaned out one drawer in my dad's old highboy and most of CDs fit in there okay. They are kind of heavy for the old thing, so I will be chucking the jewel cases and looking into some kind of sleeves, soon.

CH, I hear ya, thanks. Rog just bought me a Dell laptop, so our budget is kind of spent, for now, but I like the idea of saving them to an external HD, too. Just time-consuming. I've got vinyl we want to get saved, first.

Thanks, again,
kat

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: open mike
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 10:50 PM

the main thing is to keep the spines going the same way so
I can read down the row without having to turn my head/
this means some of the cases have to be shelved up side down.
and some of the ones with low contrast color (background/text)
are not easy to read quickly...this is not good thinking by
the producers and "record" label...the album info should be
written on the spine clearly and in easily read font..

Ikea has some cool rubber storage trays that i use on my
radio show...one on each side of the console...and the
discs go from one to the other so i can easily see if i
wrote each one in the play list, and back announce them
by looking at the tray. i think there are 10-12 slots in each
tray...usually just the right amount for one hour's worth
of material on the air.

i have some discs stored by genre--celtic in one rack,
cowboy and wild west in another, swedish in another,
and someday hope to alphabetiZe them all, but so far
only Greg Brown discs are all in the "B" section .
there is always more work to do to organize my life
and it's contents...

some of the racks i have are made to stack with pins
that connect to adjoining racks but i do not have the
matching stackable parts...so seperate racks sit here
and there...not very effeciant....

the radio station has color coded labels which indicate
the style of music contained in each disc and they are
stored by color and then alphabetically. this is a bit
much too organized for a home collection !!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: emjay
Date: 12 Sep 05 - 11:36 PM

I keep mine in loose leaf notebooks meant for cds. Each book holds about 100. I leave empty pockets every 3 o4 4 so adding new ones takes relatively little rearranging. The cds are always easy to find, I keep information, album covers, etc. on the back side of each pocket. The whole collection takes a lot less space than they did in even the slimmest jewel case/pocket and it easy to pick up a book or two to take along in the car.
Although I usually burn copies if I want to have them in my car so that I don't risk damaging the original there are times I want to take a lot of them with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 03:48 AM

Thanks, open mike. I had thought of stackable boxes/trays, and may still.

emjay, I have one of those. It is really nice and was a bit pricey. It holds over 300 if I remember correctly. It is like a zippered three-ring binder. I found it too heavy and awkward to use when filled.:-)

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 03:12 PM

How to make an origami CD envelope from A4 paper.

http://www.papercdcase.com/about.php

(Sorry, blickifier not working)

Look very neat with a little practise.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 03:15 PM

http://www.papercdcase.com/about.php

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: akenaton
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 03:20 PM

Very usefull stuff....starch....Ake

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 04:54 PM

Here's a little tip; Don't buy racks or boxes that have little grooves to slot the cases into. They take up more room than is useful. You can get almost twice as many CDs/DVDs in without grooves than with.

I'm a happy bunny because I managed to lose 2 of the black ash CD boxes today, after purchasing a 'media shelf' from the Ivar range at Ikea, as in the link above.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:40 PM

I've worked up a sort of little howdah thing on the backs of the 3 dachshunds here. Each dachshund carries a number of CDs neatly stacked in the howdah. When the dog walks by, I pick out a CD at random, and replace it with the previous one. This has helped me listen to music I might otherwise have neglected, and it gives the dogs a useful function around here, which they most certainly did not have before.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 06:58 PM

ROFL!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Mingulay
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:17 PM

The only sure way to get them out of the house is to tie them to sticks with string and place the sticks in the garden. This not only frees up house space but keeps the birds off the crops. Two for the price of one!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Sep 05 - 07:24 PM

You can get them out of the house with food too. They'll do anything for food. You just throw a bit of cheese out the door, and then shut them outside. The only problem is the incessant barking and howling after that. These are first class couch potatoe dogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 06:10 AM

Surely being that shape, they'd be couch sausages rather than couch potatoes (ignoring your Dan Quayle spelling.....)

Will it work with cats or am I more likely to be pulling CDs out of the plant pots or from the top of the curtain rails?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:39 AM

Cats? Cooperate with their owners like dogs do/

Hahahahahahahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:54 AM

Cats are hopeless. They have their own priorities, and that's that.

So do dachshunds...but...they can easily be bribed and they're highly predictable in their habits.

Like I said, they'll do anything for food. Anything they are physically capable of. They would sell their souls for food without a moment's hesitation. Every dachshund's fondest ambition is to die by extreme overeating. Preferably spareribs, steak, or something like that...but really, anything will do.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: Pauline L
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 01:46 AM

Don't you folks read the newspaper?

Stolen Stradivarius Cello Found Damaged in L.A.

By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles nurse found a stolen $3.5 million Stradivarius cello next to a dumpster and was going to have it turned into a CD cabinet until she learned it was an instrument the whole town was searching for, officials said on Tuesday.
The "General Kyd" cello, made in 1684 and named for the man who brought it to England, suffered only minor damage and will be returned to the musician who lost it three weeks ago after forgetting it on his front porch, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association officials said.
The cello was stolen from the porch of the Philharmonic's principal cellist Peter Stumpf by a thief riding a bicycle, police said. Three days later, nurse Melanie Stevens found it beside a dumpster about a mile from Stumpf's home on her way to visit a patient.
Stevens, 30, turned the cello over to police last weekend after seeing a TV news report about the theft -- the first in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's history, police said.
"Last night, the Los Angeles Philharmonic was reunited with a member of its family, our great General Kyd Stradivarius," Philharmonic president Deborah Borda said at a Tuesday news conference at Walt Disney Hall. "When I announced this to the orchestra there was an enormous cheer that went up."
Stumpf said General Kyd's return made him "probably the happiest man in Los Angeles today."
"I'm just incredibly relieved the cello has been found. It's been an enormous weight on me for the last three weeks," he said. Stumpf, the orchestra's tenured cellist, will continue playing General Kyd as soon as it is repaired, Borda said.
The cello was returned with cracks that string repair technician Robert Cauer called "routine."
Cauer, who has worked on the cello for 20 years and helped identify it at the police station, said the instrument would be restored to health by October.
"There's no reason it can't be restored to the way it was," Cauer said. "The sound will be as good as before."
Stevens remains eligible for the $50,000 reward offered by the Philharmonic but LAPD (news - web sites) Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell warned that the "case is by no means solved."
After rescuing the cello from the garbage heap, Stevens took it home and asked her cabinetmaker boyfriend, Igal Asseraf, to fix it or hinge the top to turn it into a CD case, her attorney Ronald Hoffman said.
"We are very lucky that Igal was not a person that works real quickly," Hoffman said.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 02:11 AM

Ohmygawd! How idiotic, in the first place and how fortunate that she did not get it done!!! What a travesty that would have been!

Thanks, again, to all who have posted. There are some great solutions here and I appreciate it.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 04:10 AM

I store them in the oven.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 07:02 AM

Spur Shelving does the trick. I needed fast, off the shelf, access to about 500 CDs. I don't like boxes. I loose either the box or which box the desired CD is in.

It's adjustable.

Cost me about £30 for brackets and the timber.

It's the densest system I can find.

Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite way to store your CDs?
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 07:09 AM

I've colour coded the Spines of my CDs

Red - I-tunes

Orange - Pre 2001 Recordings

Yellow - Post 2001 Recordings

Green - Applications

Blue - Non musical Backups

Indigo - Samples

Violet - CD-ROMS and DVDs

It makes me look organised.

I'm not.

But my CDs are.