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!