Finding room for all those old CDs from high school and since are real pains in the you know what, but no fear because there are plenty of CD storage options.

One of the best options is to store all your music on a portable hard drive, which will allow you easy access and save a ton of space over having all those jewel cases in the house.   My wife and I own around a thousand albums, but have now burned them all onto a drive and run it through iTunes on an extra computer we have.  With our iPod touch and WiFi network we can easily access any song from any CD in a matter of moments and listen throughout the house.  In case are wondering how large of a drive you need, figure around fifteen songs per album and four megabytes per song if you are saving them in MP3 format.  We bought a 120 GB drive for just fewer than seventy dollars; it holds our entire music collection of 17,000 plus songs and is only half full.  Who needs a big CD storage tower after all?

If you do feel like displaying your music collection you may benefit from one of the many models of CD storage cabinets there are on the internet.  By visiting different media storage companies that are easily found through Google you will find all kind of CD storage styles that also do a great job of displaying your collection for all to see.  One CD storage cabinet we saw held over a thousand discs and sold for less than five-hundred dollars.  It was made of solid oak and included glass insert doors that allowed anyone to browse the collection when they pleased.

One of the more creative CD storage ideas we have seen is what I call the “coffee table book” method.  Get large CD booklet at any Target or Wal-Mart that holds two-hundred discs or so and fill it up.  Place this on your coffee table and you will be amazed how many conversations it starts, and how much your guests will enjoy browsing through it.  If you don’t like the sort of industrial look these books have, try searching some of the online CD storage companies.  There are many different kinds of books that provide DVD CD storage, and some are even made to look like encyclopedias or other books on a shelf.

The next idea is somewhat like the cabinets, but rather using CD storage racks to cover an entire wall of a room in your.  This is obviously for people who would like to display their music collection and have easy access at the same time.  You can purchase racks that hold anywhere from ten to a hundred or more discs and they easily hang with just a few screws and a drill.  Depending on the size of your collection this can really create a unique look in any room you choose and can become part of your entire décor.

Finally, one of the best ideas we have seen for CD storage is also a kind of wall mount system, except in this idea you take the discs out of the jewel cases and hang them individually.  We have seen this done in several college dorm rooms, or dedicated music rooms in larger homes.  There are several online CD storage wall companies that sell CD holding “sheets” that you can easily attach to a wall.  You do want to do some online research though before attempting this on your own.  It can really change the way a room looks, and you should probably decide how it would look in your home before committing to go this route.

For a consistently growing CD collection and CD storage cabinet may be one of the best ways to keep your music collection together, easily organized and in a contained space.  As you will find there are many different CD storage options and cabinets is just one.  But it is one of the most popular, especially for larger collection, for a variety of reasons.

CD storage cabinets come in a variety of sizes and styles, with the most common being one with a wood finish and two large doors on the front of the cabinet.  This design makes it easy for you to set your stereo or any other items on top of the cabinet and still hold your discs inside.  In addition many of these cabinet style CD storage options allow you to also keep DVD movies, VHS tapes or even old cassette tapes inside as well.  If you want to keep little hands, or nosy hands out of your collection many cabinets come with a small lock much like you would find on a file cabinet or medicine cabinet.

The sizes and prices of CD storage cabinets is all over the range from some models being available for around fifty-dollars or less at stores like Target or Wal-Mart, while more durable and longer lasting fixtures can be found online.  At one website we visited while writing this article we found a solid oak CD cabinet that holds up to 612 compact discs or 298 DVD movie discs.  The unit included closing doors and stands forty inches high.  From the outside it looks like a TV stand or even miniature wet bar.  The cost was a very reasonable $269 when considering the unit is made of high-quality oak.

However in many homes or condos that have created a more contemporary style a wood cabinet or CD storage tower would be out of place.  For locations like this we recommend searching online for a metal CD rack or cabinet.  Many of the models we saw still include closing doors, but often with glass inserts, which allows for a display like look to the cabinet.  The metal accents on many racks and cabinets found online allows for good strength and quality, while keeping both a minimalistic and contemporary look to the CD storage racks.

Now as with many different furniture pieces there are always some very unique and expensive units.  One of these we found is actually a DVD CD storage cabinet that included an electric motor.  You could easily rotate through discs and movies with a simple push of a button, and stop when you reached the desired album or movie.  This unit cost well over a thousand dollars, and only held around four-hundred items, which may be a bit small for serious collectors.

Finally we should at least mention the several different CD rack storage options that can be expandable for collections that are still growing.  These cabinets or cases sometimes will be part of an easily put together set that maintains the same aesthetics no matter what piece you choose to add on to your system.  We have seen several “music rooms” that actually have created a CD storage wall effect by covering an entire side of the room in music racks.

No matter what kind of CD storage system you decide to buy, make sure you check several websites for the best prices and look for specials or discounts!