Music Collection Tour - How I Display & Store 11,000 CDs & More
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2022
- Having recently moved from a tiny NYC apartment to my new house in New Jersey, as part of the renovations I built a music room. However, it doesn’t hold my complete collection that now has over 11,000 CDs, more than 200 boxsets, plus records, cassettes and more. Finding a place to store it all yet keep it accessible has been a journey in and of itself. Join me for a tour of how I display and store my complete music collection.
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I have over 16,000 CDs including several hundred box sets of various sizes all in one room and all on display with easy access to every title. Everything is in alphabetical order. I also organize each artist in order of original release date oldest to newest within the alphabetical order. Every spine is viewable. I custom built standard CD jewel case size shelving along each wall from floor to 10’ ceiling with the reachable top shelves deeper that are deep enough to hold any oversize box set. The box sets follow alphabetically by artist the standard jewel case CDs below them - all the way around the room. I added controllable lighting in eight sets around the room so that every title is lit and easily readable. The room is large enough to include on one end a top end audio system with 18 different playback and recording formats that are controlled in a central mix system. My 8,000 vinyl albums and 45’s are housed in this floor to ceiling system cabinet. At the other end of the room a current vintage large widescreen offers glorious video with awesome surround sound. My many music videos flank the big screen TV. The head in the system sends audio to all rooms of my three story home as well as to all sides of exterior of my home so that I can hear audio anywhere in my yard and garden. I have a custom German handmade 9.2 surround system in this studio room as well as stereo or surround in all of the rooms of my home. Been collecting since I was five starting in 1964 with “Introducing The Beatles”. May sound like a brag. Not my intention. I am a music nut like the rest of you and I assembled this piece by piece over these many years and I chose a profession in the pro audio industry that gave me the contacts and the means for assembling what I have today. I haven’t many years left but I will enjoy what is to come. Thank you for reading this.
Could you share an image or video of your epic collection?? Sounds unbelievable!!! With all due respect. 🫡 🎶 🔊
Amazing collection! There's nothing quite like having that physicality, putting it on display. I love it!
It makes all the difference!
Two kinds of people. 1.Gotta have the physical 2. Hate the physical. “ it’s just crap that gets in the way .” Is there a book about this? Substack?
This is just fucking amazing! And great great great!
The love of music is such a wonderful experience. It’s like a best friend that gets you through life’s trials and tribulations and never lets you down. Enjoy your awesome collection and cherish your faithful friend MUSIC! Cheers from the Captain
True! Music is my BEST friend! Always has been. 🤘
I have about 800 total and I struggle to listen to each CD once per year, minimum. If I had 11,000, I'd have to spend 20 hours a day listening to music, every day of the year to listen to each. I hope you're not like me. hahah. Great collection. Love your channel. Glad I found it.
Bigger house, bigger music room... But the best spot is still the floor right before the stereo 😉 thank you Brendon for this tour !
You’re welcome! Yes the spot I listen to my music in is my favorite too!
I am from NJ originally and now live in FL. Love your collection and how you have everything laid out in your home. If you ever come to FL, let me know and I can give you a tour of all the records stores here in the Orlando/Tampa area. You would love it. It is great to meet other music lovers here on RUclips. Physical releases are so much better than digital ones. I truly enjoy holding the music in my hands.
I’m originally from the Tampa area and grew up there before moving to NYC and then NJ. Been back many times to visit family over the years. Lots of great stores. My favorite back in the day was Aces in Tampa.
@@BrendonSnyder That's funny. It is like we are living the same life in opposite directions. In Tampa, I like Sound Exchange and in Orlando, there is Park Ave CDs and Rock-n-Roll Heaven. Your video of Record Runner brought back many memories. I loved that store, as well as Rebel Rebel.
Your music collection is very impressive. I love how you have it displayed. I love how organized you have your collection. Good to see the Wall of Wonder made the move! Rock on, Brendon,!
I found your channel and was immediately inspired to buy some of those bankers boxes and start organizing my haphazard collection with piles of CD's and DVD's scattered all throughout my room. Right off the bat in less than an hour or so, I could actually start walking in the room and instantly find a CD or DVD that I had filed away in the boxes. Great solution and very possibly, the ONLY solution if one wants to curate a large collection with limited space.
Thanks cool to hear! I’m glad my little way of doing things has work so well for you too! It does allow things to be organized and out of the way. Two things I very much enjoy! Keep on collecting!
Awesome tour of your cd collection...man so much music to listen to. Happy new years and hope 2023 is as good as 2022..if not better
Thanks for the music collection tour, Brendon! Also, this is very random, but I love that shade of blue on your walls! I think it gives the music room a bright vibe!
Thank you! Yes I quite like the blue as well.
Brendon, really cool set-up you have now. What a year it’s been. It was awesome to finally meet you in person!! Let’s keep it going in 2023. Happy new year my friend.
It has been a really cool life changing year for me. I’m grateful for all the new people I’ve met and fun we’ve had. I’m excited to see where things take us in 2023!
Always nice to see how others store their stuff. I had over 20,000 but have finally started getting rid of stuff. I use Tangkula bookshelves from Amazon and modify them. They are 80 inches tall, 60 inches wide and 13.5 inches deep. They come with 6 shelves but the way the brackets are you can cut some lumber and run them through and secure them to make the whole unit sturdy without having to use the supports and you end up with 11 shelves counting the top of the unit and then can put CD’s on both sides. Never counted how many it holds but it was the best solution I found and the bottom shelf sits about 8 inches up for any flooding.
Thanks for sharing Brendon! Great to see your set up!
Such a marvellous CD collection. Great house too!
I know this was posted last year, but I bet going from 350 square feet to 2000 was one of the better feelings in the world.
OMG! It was the best feeling! I love all the added space and of course it’s so much quieter too!
Wow, that's so awesome! I don't have near that amount of CDs, but our small house is challenging to store what I do have.
If I ever come into money, I'd do the same, just have a house or space for nothing but music (well, maybe books too).
Thank you for sharing Brendon. Great collection, love the videos!!
I hope you had a great holiday!
I love your channel you inspire me to begin a collection.
God bless you!!!
Wow man. What a great collection. I recently discovered your channel and have been watching a few videos. You’ve got a great personality for presenting in a way that’s just enjoyable to watch. I’d love to see you be able to get to that millionaire status and build that epic music room one day. It would be like a museum.
Man. You have organizing galore to do. Its enjoyable. The whole process. Have fun
I just saw your channel on my youtube feed, and checking out an 11,000 CD collection caught my eye. Very impressive! An excellent channel; thank you for sharing! Living in an apartment makes you buy only what you need or can't live without. My dream is to own a house one day, but at 59, it may remain a dream.
That’s how I was for many years. I’m glad to finally have the house. But like you I was getting to a point where I thought it might never happen. I hope you get your dream one day and can fill it full of music too.
What an amazing collection! I managed to get a few Pink Floyd box sets for Christmas.
Thanks for the organizational tutorial! Basements also have a higher level of dampness especially in the summer which does affect items stored down there. Have a Happy New Year!
Yes that’s very true as well and was a factor. That said I do have central air for the basement so it’s better than average. But I do plan to get a dehumidifier as well.
Very nice set up ! My collection is minuscule to yours. Made the conscious decision to only purchase my favourite genre on CD (thrash) the rest I just listen to on RUclips. This keeps my collection from becoming too large and eliminates filler too.
Thank you for this nice music room tour video Brendon. I love your channel, your videos and your collection. Awesome! Have nice holidays. Take care my friend 🤘 Cheers
It’s my pleasure Andy. I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying everything so much! Have a happy new year and a great start to 2023!
Awesome!! Great collection Brandon, congrats
Love the way you stored your huge collection Brendon. Pretty smart to keep it upstairs in case of flooding. I think I would've done the same. I have my music room also upstairs, but in my case that's the only option. Thanks for sharing. Keep on spinning that great collection. Cheers!
Do you sleep upstairs as well?
I’m always interested in seeing how other people store their music collection. When my collection was at its largest, (in the 9,000 + range) I stored in the Ultra Boxx from Bags Unlimited. all alphabetical. The Ultra boxes are quite strong and hold 100 CD’s. I could stack up to 6’ high without a problem. And having a large indoor room to store them worked for me. Thanks for sharing a peak at all your musical treasures Brendon!
I use plastic milk-style crates with the cris-cross open holes, I put cardboard inserts on all 4 sides and the bottom to prevent any potential problems and corners getting caught in the holes.
For awhile I used only the plastic crates sold from The Container Store that were large enough to fit records. Those were discontinued about 8 years ago, they were called Superior Milk Crates or something like this. Now that store sells some weak transparent plastic boxes with wobbly handles, but they look even weaker and those are extremely expensive at $38 a piece. A very bad deal, if you have over a thousand records it would cost $800+.
I now buy the Farmplast Super Crates from New Jersey. They're at least 3-4x sturdier than The Container Store's discontinued "superior milk crates" were. I have 16 of them fullly loaded and still have 6 Container Store crates. They're basically the same size and can fit the same amount of records, something like 60-70 regular sized jackets. I can't stack the different crates with each other. The discontinued ones are incredibly flimsy in comparison, I've even read some users online claim that their "superior milk crates" broke when they were loaded full-up with records and that sounds like a horror story. I suppose I'm fortunate that never happened to me when I've moved them at least 5 times in moving trucks between apartments, houses and storage units all over the east coast. That said I still haven't bothered to replace the old ones yet because they're functional and aren't falling apart on me.
If anyone knows a good plastic box that I can use for 10"s and 7"s, or even cassette tapes I'd be happy to know. I've seen some dopey cardboard ones but I don't want that. I'd prefer a nice sturdy plastic box that's perfectly sized and is nothing too expensive.
Bags Unlimited has The Ultra Boxx for 45’s too which is corrugated plastic. I’ve found them to be quite sturdy and stackable.
woooow this is SO COOL!! looiveee your music room, or music house since there's music in every room ahaaha. So cool man!! seems like an an amazing space to listen
Thanks man! Yeah I like the sound of that..my music house!
What an awesome collection and video! Lots of inspiration for many of us with storage issues - Phil :)
Thanks Phil! Glad to hear the video is inspiring. 👍
woahhh look at all this music ! Very well organized !!! Congrats!
Fantastic man, which I have quite a lot of music too, on CD most not as many as you do here but, still I can relate enough. My favorite format too always was. Someone who knows how I am told me about this video and, yeah I liked it for sure. I could stand to do better than my, chaotic way I have my CDs but I like how you've gone about it.
This is absolutely awesome, i think I found someone who has more cds than I do. Great video and great cd collection.
Great, nice & tidy too. Glad you look after them well. 👍
Organized is the only way to go! 👍
I love this so much! You explain things so well. And you're a very nice dude 👍
Thanks, I’m glad you appreciated the episode and enjoyed it so much!
What amazing collection you have. Cheers. 🎉
Thanks! 🙏
Just amazing, thanks for the tour. I didn't realise you still weren't able to display the entire collection, lol.
Yeah that’s what happens with such a big collection.
Hi Brendon, Great fantastic collection. Shock for me. Happy New Year from Poland.
Collectors collect & I get it but I don't do it anymore. A very impressive collection Mr Snyder! If we average an album at 48 mins and you were to listen 8 hours a day every day; it would take you 3 years just to work your way through what you have today! 😅
This is the only music channel I have subscribed to as you're a music fan first & foremost and I'm hoping to find some new additions for my tastes through your channel. Great content, thanks fella...
Be careful of disc rot, keep a check on humidity, it's a thing for the supposedly indestructible CD.
i've had many CDs from the early 90s become ruined by disc rot as well as CDrs from the early 2000s despite keeping them in air conditioned homes or storage units the whole time. I've lived on the east coast below the 77th parallel for my entire life, that's south of DC for the philistines.
it's funny how zoomers don't even believe it happens.
Love the tour. Happy New Year to you and your Mom!!!
Thank you! Happy New Year to you as well!
@@BrendonSnyder thank you
as someone who has ocd, it's deeply satisfying to see your top cd boxed sets sitting flush against the corner on the ceiling in the first parts of the video-- 🤘😍🤘
Then you know how I feel and why I did what I did! Haha 😂
Great tour! Very enjoyable. Love the Dokken shirt also!
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I love your cd collection & Music is relaxing. I've jamming to Xentrix cds I finally finished collecting last week.
Thanks! And Xentrix is great! I’ve got their first 3 albums.
I really admire your way of organization! Great video!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
Wow! That is a lot of cds! Great musical taste too!
Thank you Christian! If you like the same stuff then we’re in good company! 👍
That's an awesome collection 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤓🧑🏫🤠👍😷 I wish I had a collection similar to yours. Great video.
Thank you Roger! I hope one day your collection is as big!
OMG.....THis is off the charts!! 💯🤗
Haha…thanks! 🙏
Not sure why we enjoy seeing someone else's music system and storage system, but we do ! Thanks for the tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My goodness dude I said wanted to see your stones stuff ..o man the mother load. Bravo. Rock on n on n on haha. Thank you
Very nice setup for everything. Thanks for the entertaining videos.
My pleasure Michael!
Very nice! Eye catching when you come up the stairs.
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I went for aesthetics over wall to wall CDs.
thanks for the update! Very nice!! I like sitting in the floor as well! I totally agree with you about the basement. I have a bedroom upstairs that I turned into a movie room. I have over 4,000 movies plus posters and collectibles. When my daughter moved out of the basement, my wife wanted me to move everything to the basement. I told her no for 2 big reasons. One, the chance of flooding, and two, the humidity is higher down there and thus it could ruin the covers of the movies. Long story short, we had lived in the house for over 10 years and no flooding. Can you guess what happened? Yeap, it flooded down there shortly after my daughter moved out. So, my choice to not move my stuff down there paid off!
Thank goodness you didn’t move your collection and thank goodness it happened after your daughter moved out so her stuff didn’t get ruined either. Now you should suggest your wife move her shoe collection or something down there and see what she says 😂
@@BrendonSnyder ha!!
you seem like a super cool dude! love the collection, its quite impressive.
It made me laugh when you showed your walk-in closets and your music comes first priority, clothes storage second 🤣 hell yeah, thats dedication to music 🤘
Haha…yeah you know where my priorities lay! 😂😂😂
Wow wow wowwie that is impressive super jealous, Rock on man!
Thanks man! 🙏
Awesome keep it up I love the videos and albums on cds are amazing too listen to listen music the best quality
Thanks Johnny!
Great collection. I own over 3000 and I am finding a bit difficult to manage it now and I moved in a new place less than 6 months ago. I have not arranged anything yet but I have got some ideas from you. I keep them in the staples boxes but I never cut them, so I am going to do it temporarily. I think keeping the out the basement is the best thing to do because in my case the watertank is there and even when this is not a flooding zone accidents can happen. Sunlight is an issue too and I try to keep them off the sun. I am concerned about the weight on the second floor but distributing them along the wall is a good idea instead of piling them up in a closet. Thanks for sharing your ideas and collection.
Hi Miguel, glad you were able to get some ideas for your collection.
Thank you Brendon, great video :^)
From South America.
You’re welcome!
Thank you for letting us invade you space very interesting gives me ideas for my albums n CDs though my house is smaller I'm sure your enjoying you elbow room I don't keep them in my basement living in northern Indiana one day snowing next day 45 gets kinda musty not mold at all but afraid of warping my house is old great video ✌️
I hear you. Yeah I don’t want anything to happen to my collection so I keep them close to me and out of the basement where there is potential for problems. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Excellent collection Brendon! I struggle as well with trying to figure out how to display everything, although my collection is only a third of yours 😉
So you’ve got it easy! Haha 😂👍
I love what you have done so far!
I used to live in a basement apartment...and it flooded! I don't blame you for keeping your Hifi and music out of the basement.
Thanks I’m glad someone gets it! Sorry you had to experience the flooring to understand how I feel.
@@BrendonSnyder Thank you.
Awesome collection, music is so addictive 😊😊
Congrats on the new house! It’s so nice to be able to display so much of your collection!
I’ve wondered where I rank in the world for my cd collection in total units. I believe I have about 4,000. It really is an addiction. Haha I am reaching a capacity maximum in my 650 square foot apt.
Hi Brendon, I just happened upon this video and have no idea who you are but I just wanted to say that the collection is awesome and you’re even better.
Peace and love to you brother.
Thanks so much, I appreciate it! 👍
love this
👊
Thank you for the tour.
It’s my pleasure!
This video is so calming
😂
SUPER COLLECTION, !!!! , before I watched this video i thought im cd maniac , :) WOW
It’s great to be a CD Maniac!
Wow realy big and great collection.
Thanks! 🙏
Incredible!!
Thanks David!
wow, that's an amazing collection mate :D I only have a small collection, but I hope one day I will have a giant library of music for myself when I'm older. from my favorite type Hardstyle to rock and pop :)
Hehe, you wish for more space to display your music. Most of us probably wish for enough music to fill a room!
It's always nice to see room/collection tours. They give ideas!
Haha…yeah I built the collection first without the space. I’m doing it a little backwards I guess 😂😂😂😂
Very Cool!!!
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Nice T-shirt! First album I ever bought with my allowance!
Absolutely love the title track - the live version on BEAST FROM THE EAST is excellent also.🇬🇧🤘🤘
That’s a big journey!!
Yep! And I love every bit of it!!
You rocks dude. Awesome
Thanks! 🙏
Dreamhouse!
Thanks!
I forgot how fun it is - to sit on the floor and listen.
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Respect! You've invested lots of Time and Money for this huge Collection. I have about 2000 CDs, 100 Vinyls and a few Tapes and not enough Space to store it. I have a big Ikea Rack called "Kallax" which is quite practical and has lots of open Shelves. To reduce a little Space i put all Cds in small Sleeves and keep them in alphabetical Order in little Cover Boxes (also from Ikea in different Colours). The main Problem is that i can't stop buying new/old Stuff so that my storage Problems may not stop til I get more living Space in the Future. I also like to separate all Kinds of Genres (Metal, Alternative, Black, Rock/Pop, Dance/Electronic, World,Soundtracks). Keep on rockin on
I like to be able to read the spins on the wall which is why I don’t put them into sleeves. But yes they do save space.
All my music is very similarly done to your setup. I have CDs in my bedroom and those are the albums from artists I love the most and albums I listen to a lot, where as I have many CDs in plastic boxes in a tower of drawers, and some albums left at my Dads also, which are mine, and I am trying my best to keep hold of them, and I have my Vinyl stored in a dark place in my cupboard under the stairs, where my other CDs are in there too, so no sunlight will get at them, and I am happy with my collection, but once my Drawers are full of CDs, I am going to stop buying them and be happy with what I have, and I also download most albums from certain artists also, to save quite a bit of room as well, but your setup videos also inspire me for when I get my own place, in the future, I am thinking of putting my CDs on shelves in different places, and keep my Vinyl as they are, and that's what my setup will be in the future.
I don’t think I could ever stop adding to my collection. There always seems to be more that I want. 😂😂😂
You earned a sub just for having the Samhain box set alone.
Cool! Great minds…
Fantastic set up.
Thanks Gary!
Awsm..just love it
Cool! 👍
Excellent video!!! I am collecting vinyl now too. Aprox 9600 cd no were enough :) Dining room is now full with LP's. Will rent another small place to store them.
Pseudo Echo!! Love that band 💕🎶
Nice space aka your house enjoy your music
Thanks! I’m quite enjoying it all! So nice to be in a house and not an apartment anymore.
very nicely displayed Brendon.
Thanks Charles!
Awesome Tooth and Nail Shirt Dude Great Album
Thanks bro! Keep Rockin’ with Dokken!!
@@BrendonSnyder you as well
Great set up Brendon! That is a lot of cds lol
Good on you Brendon. Doesn't it feel wonderful to go from a little matchbox apartment to a real house? Enjoy it. I did the same thing as you but my move was 3000 miles to the west in Seattle. Envious Music collection you have. Thanks for the video.
When I was in my tiny apartment, it was all I knew so I made it work and was ok with it. But yes, now that I have house and can spread things out for easy access it’s so much better!
looks awesome
Thanks James!
Great collection!! 🤘👌
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Thank you for posting
My pleasure!
thank you for sharing!
It’s my pleasure Hugo! 👍
Dude THAT'S WILD!! 😁
Thanks man!! 👍
Man this is dope af
Thanks! 👍
Thanks for turning me onto the love/hate ep. No idea that came out. Your like my lost brother kinda weird. I got to check out all your videos now.
Cool, I hope you can track one down!
I am moving in 15 months. Those white boxes are very convenient! (Ps: I noticed you own all the -excellent- Smashing a pumpkins boxsets)
Yes and I’ve got the other albums as well.
This guy is a Man in the Box
As long as it’s a box of CDs then I’m fine 😉
Impressive collection..
Thanks! 🙏
Awesome tour. I like to know how you can remember what you have and what you want. Do you buy a lot of duplicates? Bottom line you have a great collection of music and that's COOL!!