How are you storing your CDs/DVDs?

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This has been a giant problem of mine recently, since none of my shelving is really made for any media, and VHS/CDS/DVDs are all over the place. Its gotten to the point where I've been looking at $600 steel CD racks to try and get everything together. How have you managed your collections?

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Raggettstacks yet thrive.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

After helping a friend move today I realize that: everything must be digitized. Please, we need to reduce to two good chairs, a cpu, speakers, and a screen. Maybe a table, maybe a lamp.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

In cases.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What about CDs that don't have cases? I've got thousands, and they just sit around in stacks, most of the time. Cases are incredibly expensive, and not very practical if you're using an organization system.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

They're all in those CD/DVD-size cardboard boxes held together with press studs at the corners. 99p per box from Poundstretcher, so the whole lot cost me about 25 squid. It looks a bit tacky, but it's the cheapest half-decent looking solution I've found to fit my shelving.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The only annoying thing about those boxes is that they fit CDs only if you store them with the spine facing to the side, which is no good for scanning through and picking what you want. I've had to turn all the CDs spine-up, so they stick out of the top of the box a bit.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I love these threads.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I could post a picture of my (modified Billy-from-Ikea) storage but Jerry the Nipper is in the foreground. He has, literally and figuratively, turned his back on physical media.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

How did you modify it?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ikea furniture. Loads of CDs have ended up on the attic. More in the future cause... well... I don't listen to'em much and I can import'em in Itunes anyway. THe DVDs are easy to store as I don't have that many (yet) and it ends up in the TV-uh thingie.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

How did you modify it?

I put Jerry the Nipper in front of it.

(I just glued/screwed painted lengths of 2x4 into the bookshelves to turn them into CD shelves, with some extra space at the back for hiding embarrassing stuff).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bust ti kelemou

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 27 May 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

With this bastard:

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=3151&productId=125353&clickfrom=image

It cost me £70 but it was almost worth it. I've had to stick two smaller racks on top of that and I'm running out of space already. I have another extra-deep shelf that holds dvds, books and a stereo speaker.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a pretty good price. Shame about the antique pine finish...

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of these:

http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/20491_PE105639_S4.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You can get lots of shelves individually to make CD-height or LP-height space as appropriate.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i have two of the 500cd carousel things that ikea used to sell before they got sued by all the people who suffered industrial injuries trying to get the bastard things home. overflow is in two cheapo towers from argos. i need another but they've stopped selling them in black. time to download knoppmyth and get that media server working i guess, archive the actual disks, er, somewhere.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

three different bookcases. some of them are muddled up with books and there are also five higgledy stacks in front of the cd player. i would quite like a better system but i'm familiar with this one.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

CDs in tall skinny IKEA towers (Benno?) Other CDs in some small plastic Sterilite toteboxes that stack up (the lids have snap latches and handles). DVDs/videos in clear Rubbermaid boxes (also with latching lids). I like the boxes because I can use them to organize sections of the collection.

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

errr obviously. I mean the tote handles on the boxes make it easy to take a whole section out for doing a radio show or whatever.

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to buy these cheap pine racks that Ikea sold (they look like a tic-tac-toe grid) but they stopped making them. I have 9 of them mounted on the wall. Recently I finally made my own shelves for my huge amount of overflow (cds sitting on the floor everywhere) so that should hold me for a couple of months. I have all of my CD shelves mounted on the wall so I don't have to take up any floor space. I totally recommend it for people with too many cds, or not enough space to spare. When I got all of that shit up off the floor and onto the walls it was like a revelation.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread reminds me of an Onion Infograph.

How are you storing your CDs/DVDs?
37% Alphabetically: Ass-to-Mouth Vol. 7 to The Zuccini Endeavors
28% In girlfriend's Kia
17.5% Horizontally
17.5% Vertically

― harshaw (jube), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

In milkcrates, boxes, three cd towers, various zippered cases, under coffee table, on coffee table, in computer desk built-in shelf, stacked on floor in bedroom, albums are mostly in my grandmother's old record cabinet, and there's also a box or two of old cassettes in the kitchen pantry. Takes some kind of good luck to find anything.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The jewel boxes are going to get tossed and were going to keep everything in books.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

One stud finder.
A bunch of these upright shelf tracks (five four-footers, three six-footers):

A spirit level.
A variety of 8", 10" and 12" shelf brackets.
A variety of 1x6, 1x8 and 1x10 unfinished pine boards.
Some blue paint, a bunch of 3" screws, a 1/2" drill motor with phillips screwdriver attachment, and done.

Totally adjustable for almost no wasted space between shelves. 7" is perfect for CDs, 8" for paperbacks.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

CDs in tall skinny IKEA towers (Benno?)

I have two of these - twin towers

But they aren't quite enough. There are a lot stashed in my desk at work.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have two CD storage bookcases, one has fancy glass doors, so they store about 500 or so between them. I got some of those Case Logic bags, so I have around 300 in them sans cases. DVD's are on a book shelf. I have more CD's in boxes on top of a wardrobe, and under my bed.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 May 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have seven wooden IKEA towers, and another "cheap" plastic one I picked up somewhere - it looks cheap, but I think it cost more than the IKEA ones did.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 28 May 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

My CDs are on two £25 Argos bookcases, with a few quids worth of extra wood used as shelves with rawlplugs subbing for the metal pegs you get. That gives 2x10 shelves, about 2.5 feet wide each. Boxed sets piled on top. It'll last me a few months yet.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 28 May 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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