Getting rid of my cds and keeping them on my computer

[akichan]

Has anyone done this? Where do you keep them all? On ITunes? On a separate external hard drive? I have tons of music and podcasts, and I just can't get rid of them . . . so I think electronic space is better than bins of cds, right? My iTunes is very full and I don't think it's meant to hold all the Harry Potter audiobooks, etc, etc, etc . . .

I'm new to the organizing/decluttering thing (as well as technologically challenged), so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

[sapientia]

We have so much music-we are really music nuts in this house. We store it all on itunes, with a music rescue backup, (online and it has saved us about three times due to the computer EATING itunes through the years) and burned back up discs. We have a folder of discs only (no cases, just sleeves) for some old cd's, which works for us.

(You can do a search for music rescue or something similar online-it's free and verrrry useful)

[EdnaMarie]

I would not save on itunes--that's essentially your hard drive and high-quality files take up a lot of space. Plus yes, your computer can eat them. I think an external hard drive, plus backing it up every six months or so on iBackup or similar, is your best bet. Most people I know do that. Good luck!

[LaughingHyena]

We have a couple of external hard drives which we use to back things up onto. We swap them round every so often so even if we get a problem with one the other will hopefully be OK.

For music we have a lot of stuff on the computer but we sill keep he discs partly so we can store compressed files but still get the originals if we want. Partly for copyright reasons, you are not supposed to keep a copy if you get rid of the discs.