Dear Dvd Talk Community,

My name is Chad, and I am a physical media nerd researching how physical media collections (dvd/blu-ray/vinyl) are stored and organized. I'm conducting this research through a program called Venture Devils at Arizona State University. My goal is to take the research and be able to create storage and organization materials for the physical media community.

I have a survey that I use for my research to see if it is going in the right direction. I have received permission from "IBJoel" in community support to be able to make this post and make the survey available.

To address privacy concerns and too keep the survey anonymous, please use the link below. Please remove the extra space after “https” and the link will take you to the survey. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

****The survey period is over as of August 30th, 2020, and the survey link has been disabled****

Thanks for taking the time,
Chad

Greetings, Chad!

Survey complete. Do you plan to follow up here with the results and/or what you plan to make available for others to use?

I replied, the way my stuff is organized makes sense only to me.

Completed.

Vinyl collection questions but no CD collection questions.

You need some "N/A" answers on some of those questions. I just left those blank when it didn't pertain to me.

I filled it out. Interested in the aggregate results.

Filled it out, hope it helps. I noticed about five years ago that the companies in this business started pulling options and paring down their product lines. It became noticeably more difficult finding well-built CD storage solutions.

Thank you to everyone who took the survey and took the time to post in here. A couple of notes

• I am going to let the survey stay up for another week
• I will be sharing the results
• I'll work on the N/A option as an answer
• Somehow I overlooked CD's. Sorry about that one.

Thanks Again
Chad

Since I started buying CDs I've obsessively kept them in slotted racks, but those seem to take up more space than they need to. I will probably just replace those with regular shelves eventually. Sadly I don't buy nearly as many as I used to.

Again, Thank You to everyone who took the time to answer the survey questions. I was on vacation recently and I apologize for my lateness. As a vinly/dvd nerd, my respective collections are my pride and joy, but when I started to organize them in earnest, I was frustrated that I was unable to find shelving that fit my needs for dvd's or vinyl. The main result was to find out (If any) what type of wishlist of needs a collector would want to see in a pre-built shelving unit for either vinyl or dvd. I was thrilled that the survey confirmed that there was a shelving "problem" in the first place, that many of you had similar frustrations, and the result with help me to create shelving to address many of the concerns brought up in the survey. Now I get to prototype!

The second result was to see if an app or software could/should be created. The results showed between Collectorz, Discogs, DvdProfiler, spreadsheet users, and a decent amount of folk who made their own apps (didn't see that coming) showed that there were plenty of options for cataloging a collection. I was was also told to "burn that idea with fire." I agree, it was a crazy thought When the survey was boiled down, these were the big takeaways, it might be a little dry, but it did put me in a better direction, and I can't thank you all enough and any future progress of the project will be posted here.

Thank you so much!
Chad