CDs that you know you have but cannot locate right now ....

[mikeweil]

I don't expect any help in locating the diplaced items, but I find it somewhat interesting, and it takes some steam off my mind  as it bugs me.

Right now I just can't seem to find these three:

The 2003 CD reissue - doesn't bug me that much, as I recently bought the new deluxe edittion.

I sorted out the latter two for a birthday party of a friend who asked for favourite "songs" to be played at the party, but obviously never put them back into place. 

[optatio]

4 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

I don't expect any help in locating the diplaced items, but I find it somewhat interesting, and it takes some steam off my mind  as it bugs me.

Right now I just can't seem to find these three:

The 2003 CD reissue - doesn't bug me that much, as I recently bought the new deluxe edittion.

I sorted out the latter two for a birthday party of a friend who asked for favourite "songs" to be played at the party, but obviously never put them back into place. 

 

Oh yes ... 😅

[jlhoots]

Happens sometimes. I just wait & try another day.

[jazzbo]

I have thousands of cds in storage and so that qualifies often. I know I have them, I assume they are in storage.

[mikeweil]

Now which discs are y'all looking for right now?

[jazzbo]

My collection is generally not organized--I do have most of my Miles, Dylan, Blue Note, Impulse! and Bethlehem cds all in one location but the rest are pretty much just willy nilly, and stored in bookcases mostly with two rows of discs stacked two high (i. e. there are two rows of discs behind and two rows in front of those visible). I was looking for my Capitol Woody Herman Mosaic lately. . . and still haven't located them. . . I will eventually--I have not yet moved all the discs around in three bookcases. I know they are not in storage! In the process I did discover two duplicate cds I am sending to my best pal in Austin.

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[ejp626]

I don't do it often, but sometimes I would swap CDs and not put it immediately back in the CD case.  (I know, it's a dreadful habit...)  Which means endless searching later on.  😟

There are at least 3 or 4 like that, including a very good recording of Mendelssohn's Octet.

As it happens, I have also misplaced a few DVDs, though these are at least still with their cases...

[JSngry]

Check the linen closet.

[John L]

Luckily, I have everything ripped and don't play CDs much anymore.   But this is still a problem.  If I had everything is alphabetical order, I could find stuff a lot better.  Instead, I have this fetish of having everything in complicated suborders that approximate the chronological, stylistic, and geographic significance of each artist.  I have no trouble locating my CDs of major artists who made lots of them (in my collection).  But it is the more obscure artists, or artists for whom I have few CDs, that can be hard to locate.  

 

[Aggie87]

I moved from TX to NJ in 2019, and then NJ to AZ in 2023.  Both moves involved a moving companies, and relocating my music collection.  

In one of the moves at least one large box of CDs disappeared.  I am assuming it accidentally stayed on the truck and wasn't offloaded at my new home.   In both moves the truck was shared with other customer's boxes for their cross country moves too, and the shipping company puts moving stickers on the boxes that are color coded for each customer.  But it seems like this opens you up to some level of risk, and that hit me.  So either some other customer got a box of cds that they probably weren't interested in, or the box ended up left on the truck after the final delivery and was discarded.  

There are specific titles that I decide I want to listen to and can no longer find, but I didn't notice until well after the timeframe for making a claim had expired.    Oh well.

[jlhoots]

There's a Gene Shaw Argo CD that I can't find.

[Stonewall15]

I have my CD/CDr collection on an excel spread sheet. That way I know I have a particular CD or CDr but still have to find it. Generally, I file by artist or by label but sometimes I have to hunt for a while.