What do you store your music collection in?

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I have been looking pretty hard for a good solution to store my music collection. Most of the cases/shelves on the market store up to about 300 CDs. I'm sure there's a lot of people on this board who own well over 1000 CDs and some vinyl to boot.

How do you store your collection?

Right now it looks like I may have to build my own shelving because either the stuff I like is in the wrong colour (i.e. Ikea), or it's just too flimsy (i.e. an 800 cd shelving units I've seen). You'd think that somewhere out there, there'd be something like a book case, but only about 7" deep.

― blutroniq (blutroniq), Saturday, 31 May 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

An iPod.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.allmultimediastorage.com/10Browse.asp?Category=CD%20Capacity%3A%20Above%20500&ReturnTo=/10Browse.asp?Category=CD%20Capacity%3A%20Above%20500

Nice units are out there, but they're not cheap.

― Paul Cox (paul cox), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Those black 40 CD boxes you get from Argos for £9.99. They look impressive stacked 10 on top of each other, but there's always the worry that they'll collapse one night and crush me to death in my bed.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Cds won't kill you, they're not heavy enough. I used to have my record shelf next to my bed, though, and there were some nights I feared for my own safety.

― Paul Cox (paul cox), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

LPs - 1/3 fit in a great thing i got from Ikea a few years ago, 1/3 in a closet, on the floor, making it impossible to reach my clothes, and 1/3 (mostly dollar records and junk) in the garage

CDs - BIG problem. about 1/6 fit in a nice shelving unit that takes up an entire wall, the rest are disperesed in about ten or eleven milk crates, stacked two high, making finding things an ordeal

7"s - in 6 crates, neatly stacked on top of one another

tapes - milk crates.

My whole goddam house is full of milk crates. You can usually steal them from the back door at 7-11 or your local deli.

But generally, it's a huge problem, especially when yr a poor music journo and yr wifey is a poor artist / nanny and you have no room for anything. This is the business we have chosen.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Those Allmediastorage wall storage things look fantastic (I must get this one, 1520 CDs woohoo!), anyone know similar products available in the EU?

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My LP shelves are almost full. The guy who built them actually went out of business; when I went back to his shop for a second, smaller shelf he was closing up and agreed to sell me one that was in his personal collection. When I need to get another one I'll need a bigger apartment.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a nice deal on one of these 600x2 metal racks from Boltz a while back. I've done a couple of selling binges to clear space but it's nearing capacity again. The other, snarkier answer I have is "my Linux box", 100 gigs' worth and growing all the time.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the tip on the Boltz stuff... that's the kind of thing I've been looking for. I'm not so sure I'd want to buy one of those massive cases made out of "engineered wood".

― blutroniq (blutroniq), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You're welcome. I should add, for the benefit of other readers, that the neat thing about the Boltz racks is that you can take them apart and put them back together fairly easily, which is great for me because I seem to move around a lot.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 1 June 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The CDs I don't listen to often are in a skinny dresser with a bunch of small, CD-sized drawers: 2 columns of 6 drawers each, so it holds a lot. The rest are in Ikea bookshelves with wooden grid dividers in the shelves to sort them. They might be kind of flimsy, but they're really cheap, and they match my cheap Ikea computer desk.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

half of my LPs are in a liquor cabinet, the other half are in crates. my 45s are in boxes. CDs are in another part of the liquor cabinet. tapes are in various places: bookshelf, desk, briefcase, bed, liquor cabinet, floor, practise room, piano...

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Good thing you quit drinking otherwise there would be no place for your liquor!

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to note all the milk crates I've tried to steal in and around Providence, RI have only been 12" across including the sides, making them useless to store LPs in.

I store my 7"s in a stolen "US Mail" bin (you can fit a few rows in there depending on what size bin you get). I store my LPs in cardboard boxes and my CDs in a bunch of towers which I'll hopefully be replacing with a nice rack when I move to school. Casettes and boxed sets are in a row atop the stereo. In a separate, smaller cardboard box are CDs or CDRs that do not fit in my CD tower (stuff packaged in sleeves, slim cases, paper, etc as well as 3" CDs.)

I have a spindle of home-burned live sets (mostly indie/hardcore and noise).

― Ian Johnson, Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

CD's are stored in these cheap and ugly Ikea metal CD holders that each hold 20 and are stackable. They're stacked 10 across and 2 rows high across a wall length built-in shelving thing.

Albums (over 450) are stored in the same built-in, in these shelves that must have been designed for albums because they fit perfectly.

The above describes the ideal - the reality of the situation is that there are some CD's stored in the holders and piles scattered throughout the house. Some are by the stereo, some are down in the basement studio where I paint, some are in our home office at the computers, and some are in the car. There are also about 20 albums in the office waiting as I transfer them to digital.

I hardly have any cassettes anymore.

In the future I want to build CD shelves that are the perfect size to store all of my discs and ones I'll own in the future in a nice neat system that I can alphabetize, catagorize, genre-ize, pasteurize and sterilize to my heart's content.

― Davlo (Davlo), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Spread out in an expansive diaspora across all reality.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

An old bookshelf houses probably about 450 of my 700+ CDs, three shelves each with two layers of CDs on, the bottom layer with empty casette cases placed behind them vertically to make them easy to pull out. I also have about a half dozen of the Boks shelves you can pick up in Habitat for about a tenner; half these have CDs in them (two layers high, plus one has all the digipaks and odd-shaped things [Metal Box, etcetera] that would get damaged if shelved with jewel cases) and the rest have books (my other books and my DVDs are in my bedroom in a bookshelf), plus the unit my hi-fi is on has room for two rows of about 40 CDs each, which are obv. full, and also has room for about 80 pieces of vinyl, which I have about half full because I am under 30 and not a DJ. I dread to think how many CDs I'll have in a few years and where I'll keep them then. I know a very good carpenter and I once talked to him and he said he'd make me some bespoke shelves if I ever needed him to (he may be good but he's an alky and unreliable hence = cheap).

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

my ass

― testest (testest), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"I have the biggest CD collection in the world. Perhaps you've seen it. I store it on most of the shelving units in the world."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the problem i have with most storage solutions is that the spines are vertical. i like being able to scan through the racks quickly and pick something up if it suddenly takes my fancy. when they're vertical it's more difficult to do that. so i use a whole batch of mismatched cheap cd racks that hold around 50-60 each. ofcourse i no longer have any room in these and the available floor space is filled so it looks like a custom solution is going to be the only way ahead for me.

― phil turnbull (philT), Sunday, 1 June 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

inside the hollowed-out corpse of a dead hooker, of course.

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...err, rather, SEVERAL dead hookers.

Don't ask were I keep my vinyl--you really don't want to know.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 1 June 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

shoeboxes

― minna (minna), Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

my brane

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 2 June 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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