My wife and I own ~350 CDs and they’re still in their cases and they take up a lot of room — a whole CD shelf. My question to dear readers and random passersby is, should we just rip and get rid of our CDs? Should we buy a compact, CD organizer thingy?

Points to consider:

• My wife and I both have MP3 players, but they have different stuff on them and occasionally, they have issues (like sometimes, the computer won’t recognize the player, so you can’t add new songs for a few hours/days/weeks).
• Sometimes it really is easier to just grab a CD (especially if it’s a compilation and you know where the CD is but you don’t quite remember how to find it on a player*) and pop it in a CD player.
• Album art, liner notes (do I really ever look at those?)

Suggestions?

* For example, on my player, the Smiths don’t appear under Artists, and “How Soon is Now” is filed under “Wedding Singer Original Soundtrack”.   :-/