subject: How To Organise A Cd Or Dvd Storage Tower [print this page] You probably have CDs and /or DVDs that are tossed into a basket or a large drawer or perhaps they are stacked on the top of your desk. Having your CDs and DVDs stocked haphazardly all over the place does not make for an easy way to find the music or movie you are looking for. A storage tower is a great way to get organised and make it easier to find exactly what you are looking for without having to rummage through piles of disks.
Your favourite music and movie disks provide you with hours of enjoyment and relaxation. Regardless of your taste in movies or music, chances are you have managed to accumulate a fairly large collection of disks. Having them properly stored can be a great way to keep track of them. A storage tower will take the searching process out of finding the music or movie you want.
Having a disk storage tower allows you to look organised and neat, but if you have the disks placed in the tower any-which-way then you won't have any more success at finding them then if they were thrown in a basket on the floor. It is a good idea to get organised as soon as you bring your new storage tower home.
The entire concept behind a disk storage unit is to get things in place, so there are some steps you should take to actually make this happen. If you are using the tower for disks that have your computer files downloaded on them, or you have disks that have generic cases (meaning they don't have the official case with the commercial art and cover information on them) then you will need to label your disks.
It is a good idea to purchase a label gun that prints out information onto a small plastic label with a peel off back that makes it possible to affix the label to the disk case. Using the label gun makes your covers have all the same style of lettering and provides a neat and easy to read label. Writing the label by hand may not provide a neat and professional look.
When labelling the disks for placement in your storage tower you may desire to label them in a way that makes them easy to identify, such as the recording artist and the album name or perhaps if they are back-up disks for your PC then you may want to label the date and a little general information to identify them.
Once they have been labelled there are several ways you can categorise your disks. You may want to separate them by the type of disk, such as DVDs in on section, CDs in another section and PC back up disks in a third section. You may desire to break up your movie and music disks by the theme.
You may want to separate rock music from country, or jazz and then subcategorise them by the recording artist. If you have several disks from the same artist then you may decide to store these in order of the year they were produced. No matter how you decide to categorise them, a disk storage tower can be a great way to get organised.
