What is the best method of organizing your cds? tell me how you do it

[cladinblack]

I have like 3000 cds of which i have all on my computer but i am still left with cds i dont want to part with ...how would you guys arrange or store them??

[Eric]

Get an external hard drive. I have a limited amount of space on my laptop, I am going to have to get one for myself since I have too much music and I need the space for other things.

[Andrew]

Alphabetically by artist perhaps

[Ryan Downey]

I have them in drawers.

[Nathan]

I only have 500 or so cds. I keep them alphabetically organized by genre on separate shelves... I'm a little OCD goddammit...

[GITTER]

I have a vast library myself -- let's not talk vinyl either. I just do it alphabetically. Ikea has some great CD storage shelves if you have the wall-space in your domicile.

[Ogre]

Alpha by artist, then each artist chronologically. And I'm all about the Boltz steel cd racks. Expensive, yes, but they rule. http://www.boltz.com/productinfo_item_9-deptcode1_500.htm

Or you could go with the Rob Gordon method...

[GITTER]

Ogre-

Please. Please. This movie bears a striking resemblance to the past year of my life. I cannot watch it anymore. It's scary in the dark. Give me a collection of Peruvian snuff films and it doesn't match up to the personal horror evoked by this movie. Page by fucking page it couldn't have been better scripted.

[Ogre]

All will be well, Gitter, as long as you do not wear Cosby sweaters.

And, if/when the guy who stole your girl comes into your record store to "ask" you to stop calling her, you must go with the beatdown option and smash him with a portable A/C unit. Nice.

[Izzy]

Yes!!! I love that movie. Beatdown option's the only way to go.

[chubbiesquirrel]

I prefer the CD wallpaper method looks cool and easy to deal w/ then having to use shelves or racks and it makes it so much easier for you when u need to move.

[Chris the Mad Scientist @ WSOU]

I have my CD's alphabetized in CD books, because I don't have space for a rack. However, this also leaves me with boxes and boxes of jewel cases that I'm holding on to while I save up to buy a big rack. So that may not be the best method.

You could always go with the route my sister went, and just build a large shelving system yourself. My sister got my dad (who's a professional carpenter) to build her a six-shelf bookcase-style shelf set, and it's served her well thus far.

[Rev Ciancio]

Alphabetical, no exceptions.