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a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


I'm an old and I still buy CDs too.

Any suggestions for a more compact storage method than just sticking 500 CDs on a shelf? I'm in the process of ripping but loving A I've got a long way to go. And right now they're all either

1. stacked up on the floor after ripping, or
2. in a heavy duty contractor bag in the corner of our study waiting to be ripped.

And no I don't want to toss them all after they're ripped, but the contractor bag is pretty lame.

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a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


All good suggestions, thanks! I have basically all the artwork and booklets, so I'm not sure if I want to really pare that down or not. As I'm ripping I'm keeping an eye out for any unique or rare stuff. Probably nothing, but who knows. Maybe the 2-disc edition of NIN's Broken? I dunno.

I'll take my pristine Wax Trax Black Box to the grave though. :colbert:

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


IUG posted:

Here is an old picture of my CD collection before I boxed it. I probably had 100 more albums than this picture shows by the time I took them down.


I use these sleeves and put them in these boxes.






I only get rid of the jewel cases. If they're digipacks or have a nice sleeve with artwork different from the booklet, then I put them in the box. 2+ CD releases go with the album cover/booklet with one disk, and the back page with the second CD. According to iTunes, there are 168 albums in that box pictured above.

Was going to go with a few big plastic bins, but after filling one up about 75% and realizing I have a whoooooole lot more to do, I'm switching over to sleeves and boxes. Way more compact, which is what I'm looking for.

Plus, as I randomly research how much CDs are worth... they aren't worth poo poo. Bye, jewel cases (i'm keeping the super cool ones though)!

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