bhr1439;380851 Wrote: > "Can't you get those CDs out of here?" she asked. "Why yes," he quickly > replied, sensing an opening, "all I need to do is buy a Squeezebox Duet > system with this nifty remote and this Netgear ReadyNAS Duo disk, and I > can take all the CDs out of the family room." > > And that's exactly what I'm in the middle of doing: uncluttering the > family room by ripping our 25-years worth collection of CDs (somewhere > well over 1000). The question is what do with all this physical media. > Sure, with careful backups, they will never be needed again and can be > disposed of, but, you know, the best laid plans of mice and men oft go > astray :-) > > I'd like to keep the physical media for archival purposes, not ready > access. So I'm curious: what kind of storage solutions are my fellow > rippers using for significantly sized CD collections? Convential > media racks and towers abound, but they're aimed at keeping the > collections on display and accessible. I'm more interested in simply > packing the disks up in a cabinet or something, packing them as > ocompactly as possible. While cardboard boxes are utilitarian, I'd > like something more durable and more presentable than a stack of > banker's boxes. > > What are your solutions? > > --Steve
Well Steve there are several good choices if one can store them out of site. I used the Rubbermaid tubs with the sealing lids because I know how much bugs like to make homes in cardboard boxes as well as eat and lay eggs on the artwork. The tubs seal for safe storage, have good handles, a smooth surface to write A-C and so on, and are designed to be stacked. My neighbor backed all his CDs up on CD-R so he used the empty media spindles to store 80 to 90 CDs on each spindle. They were using numerous 400 CD changers for all their CDs so the wife made him get rid of the Jewel cases long ago. He was maxd out on the number of chainable changers and saw my Duet at parties and decided to make the move to Squeezebox. There was a guy on TV the other night (retired radio DJ) that built some shelves out of 1 by 6s from floor to ceiling the whole length of his basement wall and had some 20,000 CDs in alphabetical order along the long wall. My cousin used 3 bookcases from Staples to store his CD in the storage room of his house. The CDs are vertical two rows deep and two high on each shelf with very little wasted space allowing about 1550 CDs per bookcase. He has about 4500 CDs stored that way. He covered the fronts of the bookcases with those plastic drop clothes from Home Depot to keep the dust off the shelves and CDs. And many, many, other ways to handle it. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57846
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