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Started 2 years ago by devil
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devil

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Okay, so for those of you who actually buy CDs and have amassed a significant collection (I'm up to around 5,000) how do you store them? Are they on display-type shelves? Were they store bought, ordered online or built yourself? Have you given up (like I have) and resorted to boxes of CDs in the storage room? I have one friend who keeps all her cases in boxes and has huge CD books for all the CDs.

My wife has been nagging me about CDs everywhere in the house and I'm curious as to how other people deal with this.

Posted 2 years ago #
deadeyeinside

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Same problem here. Right now I rip the cds to a FLAC image w/ cuesheet & cover art embedded & organize them all via foobar2000...

the physical aspect (unfortunately) gets put in a box in my basement and will continue to until I find a suitable rack to put my 2000+ cds on... If you find a suitable rack or shelf system (and not something chincy) let me know.

Posts like yours I can point to & say to my wife, "see! I'm not the only person with a ton of cds lying around!" :)

Posted 2 years ago #
Plastik Suicide

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Damn, you guys have some CDs! :D i think i would use some sort of drawer shelfs.

Posted 2 years ago #
devil

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My wife gets random catalogs in the mail and one of them had really nice CD towers which spin on a sturdy base and hold about 1,000 CDs. Unfortunately they charge about $250 per tower, which means I would have to spend well over a grand just for storage. I'm not that desperate.

I've considered just building something myself. I've been fooling around with design ideas. I'm not the most handy individual so I'd have to keep it fairly simple.

Posted 2 years ago #
Siglo

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I see the problem not being the CD storage issue, but rather the wife :)

I lost that battle too....... My cds are in storage tubs in the garage. One day they will return to the main living quaters. I have to hide them from my 21 month old terror.

Posted 2 years ago #
The Black Oil

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http://www.racksandstands.com/

http://www.racksandstands.com/Venture-Horizon-2413-VHZ1035.html

I've gotten two of the above. Work pretty well and only a couple hours needed to put them together even for a total incompetent like me.

Posted 2 years ago #
mindphazor

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good to see that i'm not the only one with this problem!! i've gotten several smaller units, but really havent been able to find any that hold over 1,000..... fortunately, my wife let me take a room in the house to myself dedicated to my insanity, although its filling up fast!!

Posted 2 years ago #
Siglo

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Mindphazor....... next year you'll need an addition to your home. :)

Posted 2 years ago #
x-noize

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i have massive shelves i have around 2800 cd's i like for them to be on display id never box em up and hide em,that's just me =c) heres a pic

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs111.snc3/15859_1065720699600_1723514902_140068_6677466_n.jpg

Posted 2 years ago #
Brapley

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x-noize: That is awesome, exactly how I'd like my CD collection to look some day. :)

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x-noize

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@brapley continue to collect and you will get there,around how many cds do you have?

Posted 2 years ago #
disclaimer777cc

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I would suggest building your own it seems like the only really easy cheap viable option. You can really fit a great deal of cds into a small area.

Posted 2 years ago #
klondike

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It's really not that hard to find space. Walls are just sitting there taking up space. Fill them up with cd racks. Fill them all up.

Posted 2 years ago #
raedarius

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This thread is good evidence of the 'buy a cd, play it twice then file it' business model this scene depends on.

Posted 2 years ago #
epytoneC

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@ The Black Oil: I've been drooling over these http://www.racksandstands.com/Leslie-Dame-Enterprises-CD-288-C-LE1080.html for quite a while now, but I'd need a huge room, as I need to fit somewhere around 4000 CDs and roughly 1500 records. Uggh.

I have some of my CDs that aren't stored on these right now: http://www.racksandstands.com/Atlantic-63135237-AL0197.html. They are really heavy duty and are the first CD shelves that I have not broken while moving.

Posted 2 years ago #
devil

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A lot of people are recommending the racksandstands website and the cheapest configuration I can find to house my CDs is still going to cost over $700. I think I'm just going to have to build my own as cheap as possible.

And wall space actually comes at a premium in my house which is why I could get the revolving towers. We have a ton of bookshelves (and my wife, in particular, feels that displaying books is a helluva lot more classy than displaying CDs, like the difference between framed pictures and ratty posters) along with various displays, artwork and then, of course, the great big saltwater fish tank I wish she would get rid of.

Posted 2 years ago #
defaultet

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Well, @deadeyeinside has seen my setup, and I'm not sure he was that impressed..

But I have one main shelf that holds maybe 350-400 cds, not sure exactly. And then I have individual cd towers that maybe hold, I don't know, 75 cds or so each. The individual towers are nice cuz they can be moved around easily. All the stuff I got at Ikea for cheapo.

It works well for what me and the wife have, maybe a total of 800 cds max, probably less. I don't have any of my collection on digital (right now), so it is important for me to have access to my cd's.

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