How organized are you with your music

I have tried to make CD storage an 'art form' in our house. We had our home custom built with the audio system as a center piece. As a result there are no exposed wire and all CDs are organized into leather binders in wooden shelves labeled with brass tabs. All of these and the audio componets are in custom bifold closets which allows them to be hidden or displayed. Inside the closets are lighted antique RCA Victor and recording studio signs. I believe that music is one the greatest gifts in life and should be treated as such.

I can find a specific disc within 15 seconds.This has always amazed me because,for some reason, I can't seem to find anything else most the time.I guess some things are more important than others!!!!!!!!

Brauser, Any chance you can post some pictures of your collection? It sounds impressive. I would love to see them.

I have used 5 of the giant CD megachangers for storage and a Mac based software to catalog the music since 2001. This allows you to find anything instantly by "search", sends a command to the relevant player and plays the track - all of this gets round the fiddly jewel-case problems and physical filing of the jewel-cases (ever feel like an assembly line worker at a factory when listening to music - you know what they pay DJ's to do - well the system gets rid of that feeling).

Currently I am burning lossless to iTunes and storing the lossless on a NAS 1 TB Raid1 network hard drive - this will take me about two months to complete the transition.

I keep my vinyl, which I only started re-collecting a year ago, in alphabetical order. All of the records in MoFi sleeves, and the jackets in a re-sealable plastic outer liners. Only about 200.

SACD's and DVD-Audio's are in a large CD folder, no cases, in alphabetical order. About 100.

CD's are banished to the attic or somewhere else, I am not really sure where. I have ripped them all to Lossless files, and store them on a Drobo/Droboshare network storage. It's a 4 SATA hot swap-able array, with internal backup, and infinite (well how ever big 4 SATA drives can get) storage. Not cheap, but pretty much idiot proof.

I am in the process of deciding which Analog Digital Converter to buy to rip my vinyl to lossless digital files. I'm thinking of the Korg MR2000s.