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.

Edited yesterday at 02:46 PM by jazzbo

[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. 

[psu_13]

I have a cabinet where I have put most of the single and double CDs that I've ripped in very thin plastic sleeves. As I rip them I give them a number and put them at the end of the drawer. So the drawer is in "when I ripped it" order. I actually spent the last year or so ripping and filing because I had done some, but not most, of what I owned before and then sort of gave up. Now pretty much everything is in that one cabinet except...

I have various boxed sets (anything with 4+ disks) scattered around the house. But I isolate the ones I have not ripped yet in one cabinet so I can usually find them.

I keep track of the serial numbers in iTunes/Apple Music, which stores all the ripped files.

Now ... LPs are a different story.

[Holy Ghost]

Can't tell you how many times I bought a CD I already have. I think I know my collection until I'm at a store in another state and cannot remember if I have it. Most of the time, I don't, but when I am on the fly, I'm thinking, I am going to regret it, if I don't buy it now...then when I get home....

[felser]

I obsess when I can't find a CD I'm looking for.  Have probably rebought a dozen which I have found later.  Latest was a Hampton Hawes CD I misfiled.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I have all my cds ripped (and backed up) and have photos of all the booklets so I never have problems finding and listening to something.  About 20 years ago (when I spent a couple weeks ripping every cd I had) I alphabetized my single cd collection and put it into two or three plastic boxes per letter of the alphabet and kept it all in storage.  I then let things go for decades and just accumulated cds in random order in boxes which I would throw into storage.  I'm in my mid seventies and signs of aging and mortality keep turning up so I've begun to think about disposing of all the hard copies by giving some away and selling some.  But in order to do that I needed to get them back into good order so I can find things.  A landlord decided to take back the place I was living in a few months back (harrumph!) so part of my prep for moving included getting all my single cds back into alphabetical order by artist and mosaic sets by set number, which turned out to be a pretty big job.  Once I got everything together I took photographs of each plastic box of single cd's (spines facing up) and each cardboard box of box sets - I highly recommend doing that, even pics of your shelves.  You can do some types of search right from your desktop and in many cases the serial numbers are visible on the spine so you can confirm which edition you have.

Edited 20 hours ago by Stompin at the Savoy

[GA Russell]

I recently re-sorted my CDs into boxes.

New (unheard) box sets
New singles
New Vocals
Miles
Monk/Newk/Coltrane
EMI family jazz
Christmas
Surf Guitar and Surfing
Bossa Nova
Heard box sets
Heard jazz
Heard '60s rock
Recently Heard

[Ken Dryden]

I run into that from time to time, wondering whether I put the CD other than its assigned spot or if I mixed up the stacks as I shifted CDs around the room after so many new acquisitions. 

I've got a missing Misha Mengelberg and a Jim McNeely for starters that I need to find. It's not like either CD left the room. Denny Zeitlin's latest CD also turned up missing.

[mikeweil]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

Can't tell you how many times I bought a CD I already have. 

That happened to me only twice so far. They end up as birthday or Christmas presents for a befriended couple (they always say, they'd starve musically without me). No I alway checks before ordering anything. Baoque music bargains are a dangerous field in this respect.

[felser]

I have sections for sorted regular CD's (by artist within genre, with separate shelving for Blue Note, Strata-East, and a few other labels), for box sets (unsorted), for oversized digipaks which are not compatible with my main shelving (by artist within genre), but also some stacks of not-yet-shelved CD's, and many stacks of secondary/discard CD's in the basement.  So I sometimes need to look a lot of places to see if I have a title.  I always meant to make an excel list of everything I have, location, etc. during my retirement years, but life ended up throwing some curves, and I have a lot of (good) post-retirement responsibilities for family members that I had not anticipated.