Help !

A lot of fuss about CDs that really don't take up that much room. At least I've learned about a lot of storage methods with 3 and 4 letter acronyms that I never heard of before.

As long as they’re stored vertically 🔝 I have no comments. 

Can’t thank all you guys enough , so many intelligent answers !
I decided to go the roberjenman route, at least for now.Just ordered 5 wallets each holding 250 which will fit into my condo storage closet easily . 150 $ from Amazon .

Almarg
Let me clarify as I must have explained poorly.

I sold the Vault a while ago.
I made a USB hdd copy of its contents.
Connected this to a Win10 PC.
JRiver was able to read, play,catalog etc everything on it.
I was then able to copy albums from this USB hdd, using JRiver through the win10 pc to another USB thumb drive.
I was able then to take said thumb drive over to my Ayre EX8 and insert unto one of its USB ports.
Using MControl ( Ayre app to control) I could read and play albums on this thumb drive through the Ayre EX8.

Hope that helps.

@Uberwaltz, thanks for the clarification. I was misinterpreting that the thumb drive you referred to was connected to the Vault, for copying to, rather than to the Ayre, for playback.

I don’t know, of course, if the USB HDD you connected to the Vault, to which you copied the Vault’s files, was formatted in FAT32 or NTFS, but JRiver running on Windows 10 would have been able to read its contents either way.

And the Linux operating system that is presumably running in the Vault would presumably have no problem writing to a FAT32-formatted drive that is connected to one of its USB ports, regardless of whether that drive is a thumb drive or an HDD or an SSD. I’m uncertain, though, if that copying process would work if one of those drives is formatted in NTFS. The answer in that case might depend on the specific version and configuration of the Linux installation.

@Schubert, very good practical decision, and a very good suggestion by @Roberjerman!

Best,
-- Al