When my truck’s cd player broke, I got a cd burner and loaded everything onto my laptop, then moved my favorites onto an ipod which plugs into the truck.
I think the cds are in a box somewhere in the garage now…
At some point I came across a card-catalogue-esque (if you remember what one of those are) piece of furniture made for storing CDs. Twenty-four drawers of 20-ish CDs per drawer, sits in the corner of my office. All been ripped years ago, but my kids get a kick out of listening to my "retro" music in their cars which still have CD players.
i burned all the stuff i wanted to MP3.
sold the good stuff that i didn't want to record store and/or garage sale
donated the crap to goodwill
and i STILL have a three foot long stack of CDs
i make mix CDs for xmas and hand them off to friends and now people say "i don't have a CD player..."
SOUNDS LIKE A PERSONAL PROBLEM TO ME
merry xmas