don't touch 'em.

One things that REALLY GETS ON MY NERVES is yes, when my friends come over and take the books out of the cd cases, getting fingerprints all over 'em. Also, when they put the dang book back into the case and don't thread it through the little thingies that hold it in place... when they close the case, it puts a half-moon indention into the book... ooooooh, I get mad when that happens.

Grrrrr. =) Gosh, that felt good.

Jeron,
the money tree in your backyard I would love to have in my backyard.

No body touches my cd until they have been certified in handeling them properly.

Scott

hand a CD to someone, and it's liable to become their new coaster for the coffee table.

Any ways, I just line the top of the cases with paper towels, and replace them every other month or two. Am I anal or what?

As for other people handling my discs. I don't think so!

If they want to listen to the music, they can listen to it on my stereo, though I will handle it myself. I like the CDs took care an certain way, that's just the way I am.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

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Originally posted by Jennie:
Hehe...I was reading this thread again...and I can't help but laugh again.
Heehee...but I know everyone has their own opinions and pet peeves. But I didn't realize all you guys were so picky about those plastic cases. hehe...but ya know, I'm still confused on those fingerprint smudges.
Haha...they're so easy to get out! Have you guys tried using a kleenex or towel or something like that?

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That's the way I clean them, since it's not really that big of an deal. I pretty much *only* replace the cases when it is either broken, has deep scratches or cracks, or the case does not shut properly. Other than that my only pet peeve would be about the slots I mentioned before.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

Maybe all these guys eat a lot of chocolate while they listen to music so they have chocolate laden fingerprints all over the CDs.

I expected someone to say that they have about 3 or 4 of those huge Sony 200 disk capacity CD changers. That way you would never have to touch your CDs.

Before I invest in such an endeavor, I need some sort of guarantee that they will in fact be safe. What I need from you are statistics showing exactly how many orbiting satellites have been struck by micro-meteorites or other orbiting debry, and if struck was it enough to destroy the vessel? What are your contingency plans for such an event? Maybe we should all make copies of every one of our scores. That way we can store back up copies on the bottom of the ocean just in case the Armageddon like Asteroids take out our orbiter.

This entire project would probably be expensive, but hey - I'm almost sure NASA would fund such a noteworthy and humane effort. If you have any questions, please post them.

Jeron

We should buy four copies of each score. Why four?

One: backup copies kept at the bottom of the ocean (this project is still in Alpha stage).
Two: a copy that gets actually (UARGH!) opened (CAREFULLY! VERY VERY CAREFULLY!) and played to make a few CD-R backups. Just in case. There will be problems with either the submarine or the spacecraft.
Three and four: two copies of every score get blasted into space.

Now why two? Well, here's why: several of you are understandably worried about micro meteorites, small paritcles, asteroids and what not. Heaven knows I am. Chances that any satellite vessels of ours will get hit by anything like that are small, BUT we can make 'em even smaller. I propose the developement and construction of a huge cocoon in which all of the CDs are stored and caried safely into orbit. NOW comes the clou: as soon as the cocoon has reached standard speed, a small and exactly calculated gas explosion will open it up and spread out all of the CDs for miles and miles, each and every one of them on a slightly different path around the sun. Similar to the asteroid belt in our solar system. There are enormous advantages to this. Just imagine, the chances of a single small CD getting hit by any kind of space debris are minute, but since we have two copies each floating around at different locations in our solar system, the chances that BOTH of them get hit are remote as can be (exact numbers are on their way). We should all be able to finally get a good night's sleep.

NP: Vivaldi/Piazzolla: Eight Seasons
Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch)

I guess having the CDs flying around the sun vastly increases their safety, but if we really need to get one of them because all of our other backup copies get lost, we may have to wait several years for them to come near the Earth. Maybe every CD should be equipped with a little remote-controlled homing device, so they can return by themselves.

Also, due to limited durability of CD-R's, we should make weekly backups of our CD-R backup collections. This will result in a fast growth of our CD piles, and may occasionally produce so much mass that the gravitational field created by the many CD-R's could affect the Earth's path around the sun, which in the end could result in a collaps of the Solar System. Thus, our "floating collections" would be lost, as well. So we'll have to destroy the old CD-R's once we've made backups of them.

Sorry to add a little seriousness to this topic, but I recently heard that in the next five years, the top hard drive manufacturers expect to have a hard drive with a one terrabyte capacity, that 1000 gigabytes. Initially this technology will be very expensive but maybe 5-10 years after its development it will become affordable. So eventually this may be the best way to back up all of our CDs. With that huge of a capacity we could record all our scores as .wav files and store them on the Hard drive, that will hold nearly 1500 cd length scores.