How do you organize your shows?

[tke2002]

Hey everyone!! I have a random question but it is about trading so i thought i would post it here. I am starting to acquire more and more shows and the cd book style cases are starting to look pretty bad. How does everyone keep thier collection organized or is there some sort of universal way? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[dmb2much40]

i just keep mine in the cd books...i have nearly 3 128 cd holders filled.

[greppson]

i buy the little paper sleeves with the windows.
label all of my cds on the small clear plastic center like this: DMB 7.8.00 1, that way I know the band, the show date, and what disc it is.
I then make up these large labels I got for a really cheap price(about 3" by 4") with the Band, Date, Venue, and Setlist for that disc. This gets stuck on the back of the sleeve.
On the front I write the band, date and disc #.

I keep all these standing up in a plastic drawer thingy I bought from Wal*Mart for a coupel bucks.

[John Galt]

Currently, I keep all my shortens in paper and Tyvek sleeves (depending on how many discs the show is) in a shoe box. When I move out, they'll be transferred to clear plastic drawers. All my wav copies of the shows I keep in binders ordered by years. I use 12 264-disc binders right now. I may transfer them over to the drawers as well once I've finally collected all the shows, but for now they remain in the binders.

[dmb2much40]

Originally posted by John Galt
I use 12 264-disc binders right now.

:eek: wow, i thought i had a lot. i like greppson's idea. where do you find those labels and do you adjust your printer to print them or do you hand write them?

[ddale]

I do this: http://groups.msn.com/tradingtips/storage2.msnw

If anybody knows of a cheap place to get case logic or fellowes sleeves, please let me know.

-Don

[John Galt]

Originally posted by ddale
If anybody knows of a cheap place to get case logic or fellowes sleeves, please let me know.

-Don [/B]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2752406521&category=41798

I usually look through sellers on Amazon and EBay for mine.

[greppson]

Originally posted by dmb2much40
:eek: wow, i thought i had a lot. i like greppson's idea. where do you find those labels and do you adjust your printer to print them or do you hand write them?
i searched through yahoo shopping until i found the size that i wanted, bought like 2000 of them for like $5 or something. there are 6 on a page. i set up my printer to print them cause Avery had a label the same size. then, i just copy the setlist for each disc from either the text file or from the dmbta.

[Mark]

Originally posted by ddale
I do this: http://groups.msn.com/tradingtips/storage2.msnw


i like the idea of having a binder with the source files printed out like that. maybe i will start to do that.

[rhuss]

Originally posted by mark_s
i like the idea of having a binder with the source files printed out like that. maybe i will start to do that.

i was doing that for a little while, but the 2002 & 2003 sections got huge with the multiple sources ...

my audio cd's are in case logic cases

my shn cd's go back on a spindle

to keep track of the shn cd's i have an access database ... which i use for my show list linked at the bottom in my sig