I'm wondering what collectors do with the great artwork that is out there.

If you, like me, have amassed a seriously vast collection of live Prince material over the years on CD-R, you might have the disks stored in spindles for the sake of space. I see lots of very cool artwork produced and mostly I just save it on my hd and use it for reference. If I printed artwork and put it in jewel cases for every live Prince CD I have, I'd have to rent a house just to store them.

Do many of you actually print and make CD cases for your disks? Just curious.

That art's handy for iTunes.

I made a kinda crappy artwork cover for Rick James and Prince's Fire It Up Tour audio

When I began using the interwebs to obtain bootlegs I burned my downloads to cd-r's, but I never did faff around printing art. I would put the discs in a cd case and write the tracklist on the cd case with a gold ink pen. Crude, but it was all I needed. I would keep the art along with my download on an external hdd.

These days I do not have the space or inclination to burn anything to cd-r's. Most of the art these days on the free labels is fantastic and of a very high quality (though I can think of a few exceptions), and while it is nice to read and look at, it's not what is important to me......the music is. It's great to have the art, and I don't like having a release without the art, but it's something that gets looked at a couple of times and that is that.

Some years ago, I used to burn everything and to print everything.

Nowadays, with well over 1400 titles in audio, it became nearly impossible space/price wise.

Still hope to burn and print everything I didn't yet but in this very moment space is a big issue.

vitriol said:

Some years ago, I used to burn everything and to print everything.

Nowadays, with well over 1400 titles in audio, it became nearly impossible space/price wise.

Still hope to burn and print everything I didn't yet but in this very moment space is a big issue.

So it does boil down to the storage. Proper or not.

In your case, I would suggest a few sata harddisks, 1 or 2 TB a piece, to put the music on them in flac or other lossless format. That would ba a good midterm storage.

Then you can burn whatever you like, copy to sd-card, or convert to mp3 to make it usable for whatever your wishes need.

mikeyaddict said:

I've framed the symbol from the Viage 1 artwork,it's at the top of the stairs - also had it made into a stick on cover for the back of me iPhone.

That is nice artwork indeed, but I think the art from the Viage2 boot is even better, that symbol looks great against the black background.

vitriol said:

Some years ago, I used to burn everything and to print everything.

Nowadays, with well over 1400 titles in audio, it became nearly impossible space/price wise.

Still hope to burn and print everything I didn't yet but in this very moment space is a big issue.

Please don't waste your ink and CDRs on a lot of the recent bullshit that's made its way to the boot world.

^That's another thing that detracts me from doing the task: why should I waste a lot of money and space on things I won't be bothered listening to?

I have well over 600gb of video audio and i listen 2 it on ipod, archos or stream it 2 tv. i take no time in trying 2 burn it all. i also love the viage cover very much. the people taking time making the art and giving us the music r doing a remarkable job for us