Keeping the discs
December 28, 2009
I don’t know if it’ll save me much space, but I’m replacing the binders I’ve used for years with paper sleeves and plain black boxes. Here’s what I got:
Even though I’m digitizing all of my music, I still want to keep the discs–the issue of the booklets aside, what if I need full-quality sound files at some point in the future? What if I the mp3s I’m making somehow become obsolete? I guess I could sell the ones I’m not too attached to… But that’s too much work right now. The problem with the binders was that it was impossible to keep an organization schema, because all of the CDs (and their booklets) were stuck in groups of four and moving them required a lot of work. So I got these boxes, in which I can file the CDs and their booklets, find them easily, and insert new ones when I have to. I always tried to organize the binders chronologically within classical and non-classical divisions. Which was nice for browsing–it meant that Bach was next to Handel and not Berg, and the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was next to Jimi Hendrix’ Are You Experienced? and not Prince’s Sign o’ the Times. But now that I’m mostly using iTunes to play music, I don’t need to browse the physical CDs anyway, and plain old alphabetical by artist (or composer) will be much easier to navigate. I do worry about the CDs deteriorating; by the time mp3s are obsolete, the discs might not play any more anyway.
