Quote from: Cranial Blast on December 14, 2025, 08:10:36 PMI agree, I don't like the empty wall space either, but it is getting very difficult now a days to find proper shelving for media it seems. It almost like you've got to make the shelving yourself or have it custom made. Book shelves are still some what available, but not so good for the sizes of things like CDs and tapes. I definitely like the idea of having stuff on display and also agree it would be a better experience, instead of scrolling or searching via screens for something, as opposed to looking on shelf. I'd imagine with such large collection would be certainly beneficial to have some sort of alphabetical order or one could go crazy scanning through ones own collection to find something, haha. I do that now with my unorganized DVD collection, I'll sit and look for something forever and then finally it will jump out at me, so now I'm wondering do peoples collections have a sequence or specific order for easy spotting?
I've actually managed to find some pretty good and large shelving units on Wayfair of all places. Just do a search on "large shelving for CDs" for instance. Of course, you still need a room with enough walls and length for them, but it beats spinning towers or just having them in boxes or whatever.
My CDs, vinyls, and tapes are all arranged alphabetically (comps before A), and then for each band in chronological order of release, at least as best as possible (especially with acts that put out a ton of stuff and the discogs info is sketchy, it can be hard to find EXACT order of everything).
Was quite the endeavor doing it originally, but once you do it, it makes everything so much easier. Have made several moves in that time, and keeping the organization intact wasn't the easiest, but I managed without too many mishaps. CDs and tapes (at least in J-cards) its typically pretty easy to notice if something is out of place with the spines. Vinyls not so much. I thought I had lost an MSBR record in one move and couldn't find it for months. Finally, I found it randomly in a bunch of Ps.
