Journey To Getting There Storing CDs & DVDs

[Queen]

Yeah, Popeye, I am a Luddite who, that one time, bowed to pressure to come into the 21st century and go digital. Now I'm happily back to being a Luddite, I only have paper books and important records, I make lists on paper with a pen, and still use stamps and mail things... as my college kids told me "you are so old fashioned!". My nod to the 21st century is the ancient chromebook I'm typing on and a cell phone.

 

[rvpopeye]

The digital age is pretty hard to ignore these days but you just have to be smarter than they think you are.

I'll never totally surrender but I still play.

It's amazing what can be done with it if you're not sucked in by the convenience hype .
Compression formats can sure ruin a good recording.

 

[ArmorAbby]

I dont keep CDs or anything because its just not worth the space to me. I have two DVDs but that was more of a charitable purchase to support the library during a sale one day.
I use bootleg sites and just stream music and movies.
I get tempted to buy DVDs but dont because then I consider the space and organization needed.. and it quickly turns me off.


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[ArmorAbby]

My books though.. I just cant read online... I keep my books... the non-fiction that I rely on.. and read continually... Fiction or quick reads I get from the library... I use a storage unit and bookshelves are in there.. those are valuable for me.. one day I will rebuild.. yet again.. and my books will be with me.. Storage unit though, has a good dumping place, so I dont mind paying each month.
Edit, also adding, I use Audio Books CDs and rent these at the library.

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[Putts]

[audio geek] 

This advice is just for who are a little computer geekish and have more than a few hundred CDs:

VortexBox is a Linux based music server. Basically, you find yourself a cheap old computer (not junk, but it doesn't have to be a screamer at all) and stick a rather large hard drive in it.  You download the Vortex box ISO disc image file, burn it to a CD, than boot the new music server computer on it.  It will auto instal and basically turn it into a file server on your network.  But it will also make it so that you just stic a music CD in the computer and it rips and stores it to the hard drive and make it available on the network. It also has a player in it. 

The reason I mention it here is that it's so cheap to set it up (old computer; free disc) and then so easy to rip the music into pretty much any format you want.  Just stick your discs in the cd drive and off it goes.  It does a good job of labeling and storing the files in a tidy manner; you have quite a bit of control of what file formats, directory structure, and tagging you want. 

Once you're all done, you can just move all the files to a computer that you'll use in your rig, or a portable hard drive.

[/audio geek]