In the not-so-subconscious preparation to get back to my real desk before doing a huge edit on two manuscripts that won’t happen if I don’t finish the second one, I finished another task.
Dating back to 2016, I’ve bought CDs that have been piled everywhere in stacks, either because I wanted to upload them to my computer music library or because they needed to go into my CD books.
What needed to be uploaded has been, and now they’ve joined the other CDs.
Although some are in sleeves I want to keep them in, so they’ve joined the box of random CD collections (I still have a Frank Sinatra disk missing out of a 4-CD set) and other sleeved music.
This was one of the cool surprises when we moved into Houndstooth Hall: a built-in stereo cabinet that’s connected to speakers in other rooms of the house. We couldn’t believe everything still worked. In winter, if we use the fireplace, we have to keep the door open though, or that cabinet gets a little toasty.
Now what do I do with a sack full of plastic CD jewel cases that aren’t recyclable… Maybe I’ll figure that out by the time I read that book on loan from Timothy J. Lambert or hang my signed Justin Tipton poster. TINY STEPS!
I used to use the binder CD sleves, but I found it hard to move them around whenever I bought more. For those binder sleves, I just kept the booklet and the CD. I have vinyl JewelSleeves now and two sets of drawers for CDs and DVDs now. The Jeewelsleeves allows a space-saving way of keeping the book, CD and the back page.
Over the past year, I’ve been finishing the vinyl-to-CD project and working on a backup archive of all those in FLAC which is a lossless compression of audio, saving about 1/3 of the normal wav pcm CD size. The hope is that I can recreate the CD if lost or damage (as long as the archive isn’t!)
It is quite the task though, and I pretty much gave away the CD cases to work, libraries or whoever wanted them. But the space savings makes me wonder why we did all those plastic boxes anyway. Remember those useless cardboard longboxes they came in that everyone toar up and threw away?
That is a daunting task.
At least the longboxes would decay in landfills. But they were still way too much packaging for CDs. On the other hand, I used a CD longbox to get an autograph from Warren Zevon after a concert once, so that was a win. =)