Are you the kind of
person that have
CDs laying out all over your floor? Are you always
stepping on one of them when you are in a
hurry? Do you need some kind of way to
organize your CD's? Fear not, for here come I with my brilliant solution.
(Note: no, this is not an infomercial :)
What this "
brilliant idea" is really all about, is printing out these small little paper
stickers about 5x5 mm width with numbers on them, conveniently ranging from 1 to whatever
arbitrary number of CD's in my
collection.
On each
CD in my
archive there is one of these small
stickers at the back. Then, if I would like to get one of my
records, I simply hook in the
database of
records I've created at my computer, or take a glance at the list sheet I've
printed out. This is also very
convenient if I think someone has
stolen my
records, as I can
hunt them down and
kill them take my record back.
With the
database solution I can
search for artist, album and song name (wow!), and with the less functional, but still valuable printed sheet solution, I can simply
let my eyes slide down the the alphabetically sorted list of artists to find the album that I so desire to listen to. However, the
database implementation I will
not discuss in this writeup (maybe for the best of us all?).
The only, maybe minimal, drawback to this method is that i have to print out more of these damn stickers with numbers every fucking time I aquire a new record for my already too large collection.
CzarKhan says "man, I've had a d-base of my cd's for YEARS but I don't do the sticker thing"
Well, that's the beauty of it, you just search your way through the CD's placed in a row, and rapidly find the CD associated with that number.