My ~1000 CDs are still in the jewel cases on shelves (2 bookcase-style units, one for Classical, and the other for Rock/Jazz/Misc). With three Squeezeboxes in use for several years, my home CD players have long been retired, except for one compact unit I hang onto for "emergency" situations, like when I'm doing maintenance on my Squeezebox Server.
Until a few months ago, the only place I had been using the physical discs was in my year 2000 car, which had a 6-disc changer but no reasonable way to get decent sound quality from an MP3 player. Then I bought a new 2010 Mazda and installed an optional iPod dock connector interface with full control from the stereo head unit and steering wheel buttons (not just an Aux input jack). All the FLAC files for the Squeezebox are now duped as VBR 240kbps MP3 files for the iPod, and my CDs are soon destined to become dust collectors. They'll probably stay on the shelves until the next time I move homes, at which point, I will switch to an archival storage solution like the sleeves mentioned in this thread. Of course, a few of the box sets (Miles Davis, The Beatles, etc.) will remain intact and on hand for display and reference purposes. By the way, I have to say that the Miles Davis Complete Columbia Album Collection is itself a model of compact storage: 71 discs with full (but small) artwork in a 9-inch long box. The sleeve approach would barely take up less space. -- TiredLegs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TiredLegs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
