Where do you keep your music?

At the moment the bulk load of my CD's are still sitting in 5 large boxes in the corner of the living roon
I am still looking for the right storage solution, or a new house

John

Close to my heart.

Physically, in purpose-built shelving next to my "desk" (actually my dining-room table - which is where my iBook resides), next to my bookshelves; this location is five steps away from the CD5X.

Hey, I've never noticed that my dining area has mutated into a library of sorts; as a bachelor, I tend to feed my face around the microwave and the (all-important) coffee machine. With only 600 sq. ft. of living space, one makes adjustments according to priority.

My music is only 6 metres from the main system at the other end of the room in some ex-book shop shelving that fills the end wall.

Second system, in other sitting room has a limited number of vinyl and cd's there, as does kitchen system (cd only).

Car 1 (wife's) has 10 cd changer, car 2 (mine) uses iPod when on the go so choice is pretty big.

All systems have adaptors to plug in iPod for shuffle function when I am too busy to change i.e. when cooking.

iPods are brilliant for for portability and shuffle function, but serious listening always done with originals. One of your recommendations on now in fact Haim.

Regards

Nic

I keep my collection in France.

I live in Switzerland.


Do I win ?


Nigel

Beats me. The prize is yours.

Regards

Nic

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Do I win ?

Depends whether your house straddles the border.............

Nigel

The living room, where the main system resides, on a purpose built wall unit spreading to the floor, the coffee tables, the TV table, the lid of the LP12 if no discs spinning and a small CD rack by the Fraim. I begin to see why SWMBO thinks I may be a little untidy. Then there are those discs on my bedside table, under the table and the bed. Next key location is my study at home, a CD shelf and various hard drives and a couple of iPods. The basement for some older vinyl that currently can't find a home upstairs. In the car. In my office at work are CDs and another hard drive.

Rings on his fingers, bells on his toes, Huw shall have music wherever he goes

Huw

P.S. There are also some discs at my folks and one old girlfriend has a collection of old vinyl that I would love to have back, regrettably they're probably in pieces now.

Since I moved into a rented flat, there are CDs on most of the flat surfaces, especially windowsills! They are of course highly translucent, which I hadn't thought about when they were all racked in my former home.

Worst part is trying to put my hands on a particular album! As a result, I am selecting music at random, which is reintroducing me to some old friends that I had almost forgotten!

Everywhere in the house, lounge, dining room, kitchen, all 3 bedrooms, in the car and on the iPod Mini.

Not because I have so much its just the way of things.

Also very close to the place I am at any given time.

Jono

In the Ikea CD racks in the dining room. In the record cupboards in the dining room. And CDs under the said record cupboards. I keep Current Cd's on the window sill by the Hifi. Current Lps on the floor by the Hifi. Less current but still current CDs in a wooden cabinet by the HiFi. Lesser, less current but still current CDs in a storage unit accross the room from the Hifi. In the Cd racks in the study. On the shelf above my desk in the study that I put up for PC software. In the Cd racks in the garage for all the CD singles. In the boxes in the attic for all vinyl singles and last clearout. In the cupboard by my bed and on the shelves on my missus' side of the bed for late night... In the car. In the other car. By my CD player in office at work. In my coat pocket. On the covers of Mojo and Uncut. Oh and I've just noticed I've about 30 sitting on the desk next to me as I type this. And my wife thinks I need to be more organised. Told her to get on with the ironing.

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Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
Worst part is trying to put my hands on a particular album! As a result, I am selecting music at random, which is reintroducing me to some old friends that I had almost forgotten!

Inviting friends over does the reintroduction thing for me.

All my CDs are stacked into piles on the floor about 3m from where I play them. Cds to the right, listening sofa in the middle and overdraft to the left

Here, there and everywhere.

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Originally posted by kuma:
Here, there and everywhere.

At least you could give us a zip code..

Haim

My music is in the music room on the wall opposite of the equipment. Records on one side in a bookshelf and cds on the other in a cd case all alphabetically.

Charles

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Posted Fri 06 January 2006 18:03
My music is in the music room on the wall opposite of the equipment. Records on one side in a bookshelf and cds on the other in a cd case all alphabetically.

Well you clearly don't belong here...

In the broom cupboard....approximately 1800 on shelving

I have a heavy wood coffee table about 6 foot long between my speakers, the drawer has two lines, front is classical back is R&R. Roughly alphabetized. Right cubby hole has favs that get played often. and current ones sit atop my speaker next to my system. LPs are in my bedroom in a heavy bookcase I got for free from a friend who wanted the garage space. 13 inch shelves are perfect fit for them. R&R in middle shelf is alphabetized with cards between them, I'm quite proud of that effort. Classical above are not in order and I'm not really clear on what I have, but there is an end spot where I keep favs. Boxed sets are on the right.

I organized them because I was tired of the mess on the table top and not being able to find favorites. Tho I do pull out a few LPs and CDs and keep them handy near the players till I get tired of the mess or want to rotate some. I'm at the point of no more in my collection till I get rid of equal amount. but I live alone and don't have to worry about what someone else thinks.

Where do I keep my music? In my head and in my heart.

I keep my music in the following fashion.

Living Room, (Main Naim system)
About 100 vinyls lent up on the subwoofer
Several 10s CDs on floor in front of system
A few 100 CDs between the speakers
A few 100 vinyls lent up on these CDs
A few 1000 vinyls in a bookcase, with more lent up against.
A few 100 CDs in the top shelf of the bookshelf.
A few 100 vinyls stacked up againt the wall behind the sofa, two levels deep
A few 100 vinyls stacked up againt the wall behind the chair, two levels deep

Dining Room:
Floor to ceiling cube unit with many many 1000s vinyls. 6 - 7 stacks of 100s of vinyls in front of these
Two level bookcase, 1000s of vinyls.
Plastic crate with 100s of vinyls in front of cube units
Several plastic crate with 100s of vinyls in front of bookcase
100s of vinyls on top of the crates, resting on wall
2 CD towers 100s of CDs
Rack 10s of CDs
3 - 4 piles of CDs 3ft high on floor

Study (Mini Naim system)
2 CD racks 100s CDs
Bookcase, 100s CDS

Breakfast room (Linn system)
2 double bookcases, 100s CDs + cassettes

Under Staircse Storage Room
Wall to wall, floor to ceiling racking many many 1000s of vinyl
2 level Bookcase 1000s vinyl
Several plastic crates with 100s of vinyls in front of bookcase
100s of vinyls on top of the crates, resting on wall

Landing
2 double bookcases, 1000s vinyls
Several plastic crates with 100s of vinyls on top of bookcases

Upstairs 1
4 bookcase cubes, 1000s vinyls
7 - 8 purpose made 7" singles crates

Upstairs 2
Rack 100 CDs

Upstairs 4 (Mid Naim system)
Wall to wall floor to ceiling racking 1000s vinyls
Several plastic crates with 100s of vinyls in front of bookcase
100s of vinyls stacked against crates
100s of CDs on top

Garage
100s of cassettes in crates

Car
6 CDs in changer
12 - 15 cassettes in box & loose

So I have a selection of music wherever.

DS

okay, you win

peter

Music in Tours, I'm in Parma
662 miles or 1059km
Does that beat bananahead?
ciao

hi all,
this thread gives me the perfect chance to ask you all if you would be so kind as to post some links to sites selling cd racks/storage.
my collection has outgrown bookshelf type design
and really needs to be replaced.
am even thinking of asking a carpenter friend to make me one.
scotty