I store my CDs standing up like boooks but pushed to the back of the shelves. This way the jewel case can remain in the correct position just pulled forwards whilst the CD is being played. BUT what is the correct position?

I have long stored my music (since LPs) alphabetically byartist surname or group name and within an artist chronologically by album. A few years ago I converted all my CDs to mp3 format and have these filed in folders “\CDs\\\”. My mp3 tags are a real mess due to my having accepted whatever CDDB had assigned.

Now I have not managed to organise the mp3s in the same order as I used to keep the physical CDs and last year I took a step I now regret. I reorganised the CDs into the mp3 order. I did this by writing a small script which printed out a list of the mp3 filenames including directory names in alphabetic order and using this to reorder the CD cases. The end result is I have a set of CDs that are not in a natural order as far as my mind is concerned and I have a whole shelf of “The …” CDs.

A partial solution to this is that I have installed the Simese streaming media server on my PC and I connect to this using a Pinnacle ShowCenter (a dumb web client with a lot of nice audio and video outputs). I can now search through my CD collection and select tracks to form a playlist and listen to them via my TV surround sound and HiFi system.

I can of course still enjoy the pleasure of handling the physical media although with age my eyesight is making locating the CD I want harder.

Regards
Steve