Jewel Case vs. Digipack
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Topic: Jewel Case vs. Digipack
Posted By: BigHairyMonster
Subject: Jewel Case vs. Digipack
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 07:41
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Since Big Hairy Monster is trying to decide on packaging for our debut release "View", we look to you for guidance in making our decision. Let us know what you think! Also, include what you like and don't like about the various formats. Thanks! ------------- Big Hairy Monster's debut CD "View" coming soon! www.bighairymonster.com |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 07:56
| I prefer digipaks on the whole, providing you can get the CD out without getting your fingers all over it. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:09
standard jewel case, providing they don't arrive with the centre plastic holders smashed in.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:10
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Standard jewel case - it's so easy to replace it. Mini LPs and digipacks are nice. The only problem with digipack - sometimes trays can be broken. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Casartelli
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:16
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Digipacks are too fragile overall and they don't stand straight in de cd-drawer. Hence, normal jewelcases for me. |
Posted By: Hamfari
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:19
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I prefer digipack, you know if it stays intact, which it has to do ------------- Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:22
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I voted the mini-lps
But I prefer jewel case to digipack. If the prongs are broken, you can replace the tray
and the cardboard of digipack can get scratched? Mini-lps, ythere are protection sleeves. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:22
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I prefer jewel cases, they can be replaced if they get broken. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:53
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Jewel case only.
I have no idea who invented the digipack and what for???
Useless and short-lived. Bad... very bad.
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Posted By: paloz
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 08:58
| Digipack. But I don't care a lot |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 09:07
Mini LP for sure. If that had been the standard rather than jewel, my collection wouldn't take up so much space. I have hard floors and can't tell you the number of jewel cases I have messed up. Even if they're well packed for shipping I way too often get damaged cases. Jewel cases are pure evil, I say.
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 09:09
I like the more retro, "warm" feel of the cardboard.  It evokes fond memories of the old LPs, and doesn't break if dropped. Classy and less generic! 
More artists seem to be opting for them, especially older acts. The last Tom Petty, and the recent Plant & Krauss are good examples of this stylish, pleasant-to-touch packaging.
  I think that's a "digipak"? Cardboard with a thin plastic tray glued to the inside? (I prefer those to the all-cardboard ones -- it's easier to remove the disc without touching the playing surface.) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 09:27
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Although I love the look and feel of the digipack, the tray can be broken. So it's standard jewel case for me due to the ease of replacement if needed.
Terry
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 11:50
God, I HATE that! Or when they fall apart right after you open them! I like Digipaks, I just think they're a little nicer than standard jewel cases (not all the time though). |
fandango wrote:Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 14:03
Why are so many people voting for standard jewel case? FOOLS! 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 22:51
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I liked digi-pak best until I got a couple mini-lp sleeves: Semeranis and Area's Maledetti. Pretty freakin' sweet.
And yes, I am absolutely sick of jewel cases breaking in transit.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 23:13
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Jewel cases all the way. I won't stand for getting an inferior piece of cardboard instead of solid slabs of plastic. |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: November 23 2007 at 23:17
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Digipak, much classier IMO. ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 24 2007 at 03:05
Digipacks all the way. I won't stand for getting inferior slabs of plastic instead of a solid piece of cardboard!  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: November 24 2007 at 03:23
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How do you stack digipacks or organize them properly? They're a nuisance. They're just an example of record companies trying to save 3 sents by defrauding the consumer with vulnerable pieces of paper. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 24 2007 at 04:12
Exactly the same way as jewel cases.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: November 24 2007 at 04:16
| Sizes tend to be inconsistent and the packaging doesn't lend itself to either stacking or shelving in the same manner than jewel cases do. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 24 2007 at 04:22
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Hmm, interesting so far that no one likes the slimline jewel or download only, but I'm still not getting this preference for the "jewel". And oddly enough, I've never had and digipacks break on me (in being shipped to me or dropped), I just don't care as much for them as mini LP because of the space they take up. The one good thing I might say about the jewel and digipack cases is that it is easier to see the title on the shelf. Which may prove itself to be better as I get older and blinder. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 19:48
 Same here. -------------  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 20:37
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None of the above
 It beggars belief that in this day and age we cannot design and fabricate something that carries, protects and houses something as frickin' simple as 12cm disc of ruddy plastic without damaging either itself, the user or the disc. I mean for pity-sake, each of the solution in this poll has faults:
The Jewel case is fragile - it breaks when you look at it; the hinge is pathetic; the booklet either falls out all by itself or you have to use a spoon-handle the prize it out; the prongs snap off, or more often than not - arrive pre-busted; it scratches and looks old in a mater of days; Multiple CD jewel cases just don't work - while you are attempting to remove CD-1 from the tray, CD-2 falls out and rolls across the floor and they ain't green.
Slimline cases are just wrong.
Digipaks trays do break - they split in two straight down the middle; the tray can come unglued for no apparent reason; for the first week you need tyre-lever to get the CD out of the tray and by the second week they fall out unaided; the ones with the DVD style button break the CD if you push too hard, which you have to most of the time; the cardboard case gets dog-eared far to quickly; they don't stand on edge, so fall over in the CD rack when you remove the CD next to it and you normally end up damaging the pocket when removing the booklet.
Mini LP cases at first glance look good, but they actually look cheap and like something given away free, which is bizzare since they have been the most expensive CDs I've bought; it's impossible to get the booklet and/or CD out without damaging something; since they have no spine, you cannot see what it is when it's filed in a rack; nobody makes plastic protection sleeves for them (yet)
I almost like boxes - they have the advantages of both the Jewel Case and the Digipak, but they are too big to fit a standard CD rack.
If we can design and build quad-core pentium based PC's, cars that can do 250 miles an hour, a machine that allows you to carry 1000s of songs in your pocket and pop-corn you can cook in a microwave what the hell does it take for some "packaging expert" to come up with a design that works and a "materials expert" to find the right plastic or laminated cardboard to make it from? ------------- What? |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: November 30 2007 at 23:36
| I agree with Dean. Digipacks are flimsy and jewel cases are fragile. Overall, jewel cases are better, but nothing is worse than opening a CD only to have the damn disc tumble out cause those little prongs that hold the CD in place have broken off and now the CD is being bounced on and off the remaining prongs, scratching the disc. Oh, I could strangle a baby when that crap happens. |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: November 30 2007 at 23:41
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I like the digi pak, much classier. -------------
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 30 2007 at 23:42
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I smashed PT's Up the Downstair digipak in the car door. Broke both discs. The same would happen if it were a jewel case. But it hasn't yet happened with a jewel case, so I vote for that. The real culprit is the damn car for no having anywhere but between the seat and door to put my album.
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Posted By: SoundsofSeasons
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 00:13
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What is the packaging for Rush's Snakes and Arrows called? Whatever that is I really like that the most; as opposed to the antithesis which was the Rush in Rio packaging...the three cd's get scratched every time I slip them in and out of the stupid cardboard. ------------- 1 Chronicles 13:7-9 Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 00:22
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I like the digipacks for aesthetic purposes. They look better and I think they work better. I hate buying a cd to find the case is cracked. I've never had a digipack be in less than perfect condition.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:27
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wow Dean, now that's a rant... perhaps particle beams dense enough to suspend the discs in the air but not enough to damage them I prefer the digipacks, best of both worlds.. I like sleeves too but I don't like how unsafe the disc is in the paper |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:43
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i disagree with digipacks on the whole. it doesnt seem classy to me, just cheap an i come into the album with that in mind. cheap, easy, no thought and i get worried the music will sound the same. the trays break, and the inserts are never interesting (not the the digipacks fault, i know, just something that has yet to happen). you kinda have to chose the lesser of the evils here. i dont really agree with anything accept vinal but i voted for the jewel case here.
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 01:46
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What i dislike is when the CD is directly into the cardboard, without paper sleeve. So the CD is scratched each time you pull it through. A shame!!!
"Multiple CD jewel cases just don't work " Indeed, and they don't product double Cds boxes as in the beggining. Another shame!! |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 03:34
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Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 07:08
| Digipacks for me. They generally look more attractive, they are more durable than jewel cases and P&P costs are less when you order them online (unless the seller offers the option of sending the CD and sleeves sans the jewel case, which sadly very few do). |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: December 05 2007 at 17:16
| Agree with Dean but if it has to be the standard jewel just make sure it is the design with the reinforced centre. There's nothing more frustrating than receiving a CD with the unsupported centres all caved in and rattling around. I don't think these loose bits have damaged the CD but it is so frustrating having to obtain another case just because the centre is broken. Be environmentally friendly. |