Organizing my DVD's & CD's Whew!!!!

I’ve put up with mountains of sliding Jewel Cases long enough. Not to mention the fun of balancing them in my lap as I look for a specific DVD or CD. 90% of the time I’ll drop a lap full on the floor while I’m searching.

A lot of my Audio CD’s have been ripped and I carry them easily on my mp3 player. I’m still digging through 25 years worth and trying to keep up with what’s ripped and what’s not. I’m ready to create a spreadsheet to organize this process a bit. Yes, I should have done that first. :wink: I sort of jumped into ripping without much of a plan. I ripped my favorites first.

I have a couple 50 cd wallets for my software and some copies of audio cd’s that I made years ago before mp3’s were available.

I didn’t want to lose my CD or DVD title/cover sheets. That’s always held me back from organizing everything into CD wallets.

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. :smiley: I found some organizers on Amazon that have a pocket for the CD or DVD cover/title sheet and two pockets for the discs. I ordered one CD organizer and one DVD organizer. Each holds over 300 titles. The DVD organizer has bigger pockets for the DVD cover/title sheets.

I’m jumping into my DVD collection first. There’s been three DVD’s so far that had the title info printed directly on the cardboard dvd cover. Those I can’t put in my organizer. All the other titles have a printed sheet that slides out of the case easily. I got a hundred empty dvd cases already going in the trash. :smiley:

Later I need to go back and organize the titles in my organizer by Genre and Title. For now I’m just happy to get them out of those slippery cases and off my shelves. I found a few duplicates. That’s what happens when they aren’t organized. You lose one and buy another.

<sigh> my 25 year audio collection will take months to go through. <sigh> I will get there eventually.

I’m going to tentatively move this to Cafe Society for you (since it seems to fit better in there).

Good luck!

I did that with my cds. It was satisfying to pitch all those cases, where most of them had a crack or break of some sort.

I have always been a fan of file servers and ripping everything onto them. With the cost of terrabyte hard drives turning affordable there is no reason not to. Heckfire, I even found a case I liked, it is designed for a file server, holds like 10 hard drives … though I have toyed with the idea of gutting out my sperry univac 1616 and filling it with stuff turning it into a file server, for that retro SF look =)