# Do you still have your CD collection "on display"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106 "2007-08-27T16:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/21 "2007-08-27T21:04:29Z")
All my CDs got transferred to my dedicated Mac Mini multimedia system, uncompressed. The originals are in several crates in the garage. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/22 "2007-08-27T22:04:06Z")
I have my CDs totally stored on my PC hard drive and on my 40 GB Zen player. The actual physical CDs are tucked away in a back room. I’m like psycat90. I buy a CD (I’m still a Luddite that way, I’ll buy the discs rather than download them) then rip it to PC, then upload to portable player. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/23 "2007-08-27T22:40:17Z")
Before I moved a year ago, most of my my cds were in two 400-cd-capacity carousel players, with the boxes in a 4-foot tall 4-sided lazy susan rack, all arranged alphabetically by artist. I boxed the cds and boxed the boxes when I moved and haven’t unboxed them. I now have DirecTV and rely on that for entertainment. What’s an ipod? (just kidding on the last but don’t plan to get one) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/24 "2007-08-27T22:46:17Z")
Oh yeah, [definitely](http://www.wretchawry.com/gallery/HomePhotos/photos/middleshelf2.jpg). There are a few hundred more that aren’t shown in that old picture, taken just after we moved into the house. I’m sure I have over 1500 CDs (and over 1000 LPs). I don’t consider them to be “on display” though because they’re not there to show off, they’re there to access. Much of my music is ripped to my computer, and that’s how I listen to music most often, but I can’t imagine not having the physical CDs. I learned the hard way that if your hard drive crashes, it’s nice to have a backup via the actual CD. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/25 "2007-08-27T22:47:06Z")
What few CDs I owned were stolen with my car nearly ten years ago. All my vinyl just returned to its rightful, prominent position yesterday, following completion of a remodel. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/26 "2007-08-27T23:38:03Z")
I have around a thousand or so CDs, all out. Two reasons. 1. Conversation. There are many here who posted this already, but looking over someone’s music collection is great fun. It’s not a macho thing about who has the bigger/better/more tasteful collection (though I assume that there are those who feel that way). Rather, I bet **GargoyleWB** would be amused to see that I really do own a copy of _Freedom Rock_ (albeit burned from the vinyl). 2. How the mind works. I can’t explain this one too well. But there is just something about being able to gaze lazily around sections/categories that can’t be duplicated on a computer screen. This is especially true when you know you want to listen to _something_ but you just don’t know what. The best analogy I can come up with is to ask yourself how many times you have ever found yourself standing in front of the open 'fridge door just looking for something. You _know_ what’s in there, but that doesn’t stop you from looking. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106/27 "2007-08-28T01:33:30Z")
My collection is still on racks in my living room. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-cd-collection-on-display/417106.md?page=1)