CD Sleeves

No good; you can't read the spine (side). ...Not a good way to organize and quick pick a selection from your music CD collection.

I keep all my CD jewel boxes, and all my audiophile CDs are inside a clear plastic wrapper, including the jewel box (no dust can enter), just like serious music LP collectors do with their albums (the entire album's art work is inside a clear plastic).

As for space, yeah, just rip your walls apart and build inside CD shelves. It looks super cool, and a 20' by 8' wall can have a lot of CDs.
And five of those walls (spread here and there in your mansion) will take care of roughly 40,000 CDs!
...Including all their jewel boxes.

And! You can find easily what you're looking for by reading their spine (side); when your collection is well organized (music genre, alphabetic order, etc.).

That's my opinion Jeff (for me, in my own space at home).
 
You have to wonder really how much space will it save?

Right now, I'm building custom shelves from ceiling to floor for my LP's, CD's and BluRay's.

Here's the work in progress.

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This is in a little 5 x 5 at the back of my room.
 
Mike said:
You have to wonder really how much space will it save?

Right now, I'm building custom shelves from ceiling to floor for my LP's, CD's and BluRay's.

Here's the work in progress.

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This is in a little 5 x 5 at the back of my room.
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Looks good Mike but unfortunately my space is limited......The space I'll need for my 4000 CD's will take up 75% less space and that will give me more room for LP's :)
 
A/V Solutions said:
Looks good Mike but unfortunately my space is limited......The space I'll need for my 4000 CD's will take up 75% less space.
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What about ripping them all to a NAS, backing up to an external drive and then selling all the CD's?

I know it would take a long time, but if you did them in batches of 100 - you would be surprised how fast you get through them all. That's what I did.

You could then buy something useful like more LP's! :)
 
NorthStar said:
No Mike, your idea is a good one; ripping all your CDs (and albums too) on hard drives.

That's living in touch in 2013; digital music servers.
...Put Picasso and Dali and Monet and Gauguin paintings on your walls instead.
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Or Ella, the Stones and Beatles. :)
 
In all seriousness, buy a Synology 1812+ NAS (or similar) and 8, 3TB Western Digital Red drives, rip the CD's slowing but surely to lossless FLAC using DBPowerAmp or similar. Then, add a Linn Klimax or Akurate (read: no computer required) or the new Sony DSD player: http://presscentre.sony.co.uk/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=8820&NewsAreaId=2 OR something similar like the new Lumin.

Add iPad, and stir. ;)
 
Bob.....My listening is about 75% LP and 25% CD even though I have many artists on both formats, most of the time the LP is what I prefer. When I built my listening room I had the CD's in the room on the back wall, it screwed with the sound having all that hard plastic reflective surface behind the listener (me) so out they went and sound improved. Fast forward to today and all my CD's reside in one of our spare bedrooms taking up wall space I could use for other things plus I'd really like all my music in my listening room. Yes the ripping thing is a possibility but its something I have no desire for at this time, it still sounds like digital no matter what, its good but not LP sound and that's what I'm after, to each there own Yes?......My goal is to replace my CD copy with the LP copy as this will rid about 3000+ CD's I have. For the time being getting the sleeves solves my spare bedroom issue, I can have all my CD's in the listening room or at least the one's I desire to listen to and they will be in nice cd storage boxes and yes it may take a few more minutes to find something but with an outer label with the artist and title on each sleeve and good organization its no big deal to me. So yes the direction of the thread is fine by me as I wasn't asking for approval merely sharing......I hope all is well and happy Listening.
 
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