CD Cases - Grrrrrrr!

[cloughie]

Good points. Moving to sleeve-only would would solve the space problem but it must be less convenient when trying to locate a specific CD. The good thing about the space issue for me is that in my old age with an already huge collection and now with downloading and streaming as an option, I have more or or less stopped buying CDs and the collection has reached its terminal state (a bit like its owner?). I did buy the latest Bob Dylan. It seemed appropriate to to be able to add it on the shelf to the rest of the CDs in his canon. (Also he won't be producing that many more).

Yes, what you say about Dylan is true - there maybe a couple of new ones but I think they must surely be running out of Bootleg Series fodder at this stage!

[gurnemanz]

Yes, what you say about Dylan is true - there maybe a couple of new ones but I think they must surely be running out of Bootleg Series fodder at this stage!

I wouldn't bank on that (cash cow for Sony).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I wouldn't bank on that (cash cow for Sony).

The CD jewel case was a misguided attempt by Philips to adapt the tape cassette design to fit the new format. It was a big mistake, and we’ve been stuck with it ever since.

[richardfinegold]

I am a bit neurotic about CDs which don't look good and always keep a few unscratched, uncracked spares as replacements. You can of course buy them, also twofers. When I used to buy Gramophone and they had a sampler CD each month. I used to discard the CD after playing and recycle the case.

The new cardboard ones, eg from Harmonia Mundi, alpha, Pentatone are stylish but if they do get damaged (eg the plastic sprockets which hold the disc in place) you can't replace them. The all-cardboard ones where the disc slips in and out can get torn and the cardboard will surely wear out over time.

The problem with rationalising down to paper or plastic sleeves is how to store the sleevenotes.

I can’t read CD sleeve notes without the assistance of magnification, so I’ve bought labels that I stick on the sleeves. Of course, I also can’t read my own handwriting...

[Pulcinella]

I can’t read CD sleeve notes without the assistance of magnification, so I’ve bought labels that I stick on the sleeves. Of course, I also can’t read my own handwriting...

Well, you are a doctor, and they're notorious for having poor handwriting.

[Bryn]

The CD jewel case was a misguided attempt by Philips to adapt the tape cassette design to fit the new format. It was a big mistake, and we’ve been stuck with it ever since.

Eddie Prévost's Matchless Recordings transitioned to smaller versions of the old LP card sleeve with paper/film inner sleeve in for some more recent issues. So you still get an, albeit slim, spine with identification information on it. Then there is BIS, https://bis.se/introducing-bis-ecopak

[Serial_Apologist]

Well when plastic CD covers break I just resort to transparent plastic pouches, and stick any liner notes in with the CD. If the back filler is too large to fit in, I just trim it to size; usually I find the script can be fitted in. No fuss with me - simples! The pouches take up less room on the shelf than do cases, of any manufacture. The above-mentioned problem of locating a particular CD is solved by arranging them like my vinyl, in chronological order of composition. That only causes potential problems with multiple works on a CD, which is where I go for what I consider to be the main work defining the date.

[Lordgeous]

As with many of you guys I have a pretty large collection of CDs purchased over many years. Now with memory not being what it used to be I occasionally find myself purchasing CDs which I already own (anyoneone else done this??) the only beneficiaries being my friends! Going to start work on a database!!

[Cockney Sparrow]

Mea Culpa... Thankfully only a few times.

[MickyD]

As with many of you guys I have a pretty large collection of CDs purchased over many years. Now with memory not being what it used to be I occasionally find myself purchasing CDs which I already own (anyoneone else done this??) the only beneficiaries being my friends! Going to start work on a database!!

Guilty of that too, but more worryingly I have recently found myself coming across CDs on the shelves that I don't even remember buying!

[Bryn]

Guilty of that too, but more worryingly I have recently found myself coming across CDs on the shelves that I don't even remember buying!

Been there. Done that.

[Lordgeous]

Yes, that too, and recently many that I've not even played! I buy them because I THINK I ought to have them in my collection. eg Recently, 2 versions of FIDELIO, a work I hardly know (apart from the famous bits!).

[Parry1912]

As with many of you guys I have a pretty large collection of CDs purchased over many years. Now with memory not being what it used to be I occasionally find myself purchasing CDs which I already own (anyoneone else done this??) the only beneficiaries being my friends! Going to start work on a database!!

What usually happens is that I’ll see something that looks interesting in a charity shop and, not recognising the cover, buy it. Then I realise that I’ve already got it in some box set.

[Bryn]

Yes, that too, and recently many that I've not even played! I buy them because I THINK I ought to have them in my collection. eg Recently, 2 versions of FIDELIO, a work I hardly know (apart from the famous bits!).

Ah, Fidelio. I have at least 3 copies of the EMI/Warner Klemerer recording, the first CD version with its cumsy editing over the two discs, the revised issue with more sensible distribution over the two discs, and that in the big Warner set of boxes. For once, all were purchesed in full knowledge of having the previous versions, though I would not have got the second, has I known the third would be released. I admit to being a little fixated on the work, also having three different recordings based on the first version of Leonore and one of the second version of Leonore, in additon to various other recordings of Fidelio.

[jayne lee wilson]

I can’t read CD sleeve notes without the assistance of magnification, so I’ve bought labels that I stick on the sleeves. Of course, I also can’t read my own handwriting...

Maybe find the notes (or apt alternative info) online and read them there suitably magnified? Often works well for me...