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miTunes75

i'm curious...

for those of you who have 1000+ cds, what do you do with them all. What I'm trying to ask is how are they stored?

I can imagine someone's room (or) a room on someone's house that is nothing ball wall-to-wall cds....

what do you do?

any pics to share ??

baggss

Actually, 1000 CDs is not that many. My wife and I have 1100 CDs total and they sit on a CD shelf in the hall collecting dust...

kevmakara

Buy a massive HDD, rip all of them to your comp., then box up the CD's and stash 'em in the attic. Digital audio is the way to go.

I only have 506 "albums", but alot are live shows I downloaded that if burned to CD's would be at least 3 CD's each. So, in terms of CD's, I have ~1000 CD's. Again, box 'em up and safely store them in a closet/attic.

papayaninja

I have a friend (actually, my mom's friend, but whatever) who is about 80 years old and has just about every jazz cd ever recorded. SERIOUSLY. He has a room in his house, probably 8x8 wall to wall cds. He must have thousands.

Doug Gilmour

A cousin of mine has 5,000+ classical albums, all which fit on a large shelf, above his home theatre setup. The shelf takes up the entire wall.

I have around 2,000 albums, but they're digitized and stored on my external HDD..

-Dan

miTunes75

do you still have the cds that you originally purchased or did you eventually sell them, dan?

papayaninja

lol, Dan, one of us is going to have to change our name. It's bad enough in one of my classes where there's a Dan, and someone says our name and we both look around like lost dogs, but when it starts to happen online... Yikes.

Doug Gilmour

Originally posted by miTunes75.

do you still have the cds that you originally purchased or did you eventually sell them, dan?

Well, I didn't exactly buy all of the albums...

But for those I did buy I store them all in my room.

papaya,

I believe you're going to have to go by something else then, as I have seniority around here...

-Dan

bigshot

I have over 8,000 CDs. I take the booklet and back card out of the jewel case and tuck them into Case Logic books. This way, I can fit my whole collection in a single bookcase.

See ya
Steve

iTel

Originally posted by bigshot

I have over 8,000 CDs. I take the booklet and back card out of the jewel case and tuck them into Case Logic books. This way, I can fit my whole collection in a single bookcase.

See ya
Steve

Thats a pretty good idea, might have to consider that.

PHiX

8,000 cd's? Holy crap. I think my 100 albums are a lot already! I can't even think of 500 albums that I would even like to have.

You could have bought a BMW 7 series with the money if you wouldn't have bought those albums.

Or maybe even the new M6.

skateboarderx24

wow 8000... im keeping all my cd's so when the grandkids ask what a cd is i say its like a record.. but smaller and better.. then they will ask what a record is .. and ill reply.. i dont know

jwc110869

Originally posted by bigshot

I have over 8,000 CDs. I take the booklet and back card out of the jewel case and tuck them into Case Logic books. This way, I can fit my whole collection in a single bookcase.

See ya
Steve

I've been meaning to do the exact same thing. But I couldn't imagine how many of those books you need for 8000 CD's and booklets

Blackmane

I have abou 800 ~ 1000 and they a stored in bredrooms with family and cars etc, but i have digitzed my collection so i can acsess it easily. It was hard finding all the CD's in the first place.