favorite CD package format
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Topic: favorite CD package format
Posted By: terryl
Subject: favorite CD package format
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 01:43
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Hi, i don't know if it's just me or if anyone else here would feel the same. I usually frown when I learn that any cd i order would come in other formats than the common jewel case. Reason? the thickness is different when i shelvf a digipak cd with those in jewel cases. And it seems the more bands are using digipak! So, just want to check with if you guys have any preferrence for this or not. cheers ------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 02:00
| If is to choose Digipak/ Digibook for sure but also Anything will do if the music is good. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 02:08
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If I have a choice, DIGIPAK, but jewel cases are fine if I can't choose.
Has anybody gotten the Porcupine Tree re-released DIGIPAKS/DIGIBOOKS? They're seriously beatiful! ------------- 
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 02:19
Yep, that is a truism my friend. |
progkidjoel wrote:Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 02:22
Digipack/Digibook.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 02:33
Usually digipak, but if I buy online I prefer jewel case so that I can replace it after the guys at the post office have broken it.  |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 02:35
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The jewel case. Although it's all about the music and the thickness may become an important issue when the shelves are getting full, I'd rather stick to the old, trusted format. ------------- 
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Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 03:08
Agreed! I only buy music online and they break the damn thing every time. ------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 03:21
| Shiny plastic, not awful cardboard. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 03:31
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Digipack / digibook. Yesterday I listened to Repertoire's issue of Procol Harum's Grand Hotel, and the way the cd was packaged, is much more beautiful than if they would have used a jewel case. It has to be a nice, shiny quality package, of course. Something that won't be eaten by termites or paper worms.  |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 03:46
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Anything BUT jewel case, for me. Other than that, don't care if it's digipack, mini-LP or a nicely decorated plastic bag. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 03:59
Can't believe I forgot Mini LP's - I'd buy them constantly if they were more readily available... Recently bought a copy of CttE as a mini LP for my dad... GREAT nostalgia gift -------------
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Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 04:19
| In the short term digipak , in the long term jewel case I have put it to the test, jewel cases win every time when it comes to longevity and preservation of the CD itself. |
Posted By: Silverbeard McStarr
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 05:44
| Digipack/book. I like the smell when you open it for the first time, it smells different form the jewel case. And I always break jewel cases. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 06:46
| I prefer digipaks on the whole, as long as you can get the CD out without having to plaster your fingers all over it (e.g. Pendragon's last one and the new Beatles remasters). |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 07:20
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When digipaks first came out, I didn't like them because they stood out like a sore thumb among my collection of discs housed in jewel boxes. But I have enough of them now that I don't mind and they seem to be much more interesting from an artistic standpoint. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 08:36
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I prefer jewel cases because while the case may get scratched/broken, the artistic goodness underneath is preserved.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:17
Yeah, but most likely what you have there is a Mini Lp sleeve (all cardboard)
If I can still appreciate the digibook, i bloody hate the digipaks
I prefer jewel cases to digipaks anyday of the week. ------------- 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: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:19
| Jewelcase |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:39
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Jewels baby, jewels. I get so bummed when a CD I want comes in a digi. When a jewel breaks you can replace it. When a digi gets old your artwork is mucked up, when the spokes break it's a pain to fix or impossible, and worst, they have those awful little slots where the booklet goes. Sometimes that slot tears out too. Jewels rock.
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:40
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If there's a possibility to choose between a jewel case or a digipak, no difference in the content otherwise, I'm ready to pay an euro or two extra for the digipak. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:41
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Of course, mini-lps are the real king when they are high quality.
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:45
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Digipak, but there's nothing wrong with a jewel case with a nice booklet in it. The digipak ssems to be more versatile though... there can be done some cool thing with artwork in the digipak.
I've got the Metanoia and Up The Downstair digipak versions. They're very fine indeed! ------------- 
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:49
Oh hell yes, I've got some RPI classics in Japanese mini LP pressings, they're so cool ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA!
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 10:32
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Digipacks, I hate brocken jewel cases. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 10:39
Totally agree, if only more labels would take a leaf out of BTF's book. What wonderful lp sleeve reproductions they make.
My next favourite is digipak/book. far preferable to a horrible plastic box.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 11:10
Oh no, absolutely not. That's my least favorite package, where you almost have to use your bodyweight to get the cd out of the sleeve. No, it has a holder like a jewel case, and you can unfold it like a book, pull out the booklet much more easily than with the jewel case. Elegance, beauty and easy to use. I do think they call it a digipak. I just saw it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digipak - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digipak |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 11:16
The good thing is, you usually have to pay less for the digipack.  ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 12:38
It doesn't matter to me, as long as the finished product is of great quality. 
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 16:33
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I love digipaks and digibooks because of all the nifty little extras that usually come with them. I think it's often a real asset to the album and its artwork, and they can be used really creatively (see 10,000 Days by Tool) Now on the other hand, jewelcases don't get all torn up around the edges, they don't fold, etc.
But they also break. So yeah, I'll go with digipaks. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 18:19
| I'm a jewel case man since they can easily be replaced. They aren't as fragile as advertised if you regularly handle cds. It amazes me how often I'll buy a second-hand disk to see the center tabs (holding down the cd) broken off. How much force do people put on these things? |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 18:34
That happened to me with a NEW CD
But I easily replaced it -------------
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 06 2009 at 20:52
Same here. |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 10:18
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mmm... I like the Jewel case anytime... though the smell of digipack is great while is new and has more space for artistic graphic and all that... but like the special edition of O.S.I. first album, is digipack and I had never seen an album so great in concept of art like that... but still prefer the jewel case... it last forever... ------------- |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 10:54
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Digi-pacs are the closest thing to an album cover. Jewel cases have a
tendency to break when dropped or put in my computer bag. Although, if
the Digi-pac gets damaged, you can't buy a replacement like a jewel
case. Nope, Digi-pacs it is!
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Posted By: Anguiad
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 11:09
That special edition has one of the greatest packaging I've ever seen. Besides it supported the concept of the album itself, so it wasn't made beautiful just for the sake of it. Other cool packaging is Chroma Key's Graveyard Mountain Home. It's a digipack but with a different material used on the cover, more resistant and elegant. I also love (not prog) Pearl Jam's No Code and Vitalogy album design. Quite innovative to use snapshots as lyric printing. So...digipack it is. ------------- "Tis your birth and faith that wrong you...not I." |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 11:12
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^ I think the OSI special edition was a custom digibook. I love digibooks ... I just bought the Guilt Machine special edition digibook. http://www.amazon.com/This-Perfect-Day-Deluxe/dp/B002LMOCI6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1254931881&sr=8-1 - http://www.amazon.com/This-Perfect-Day-Deluxe/dp/B002LMOCI6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1254931881&sr=8-1 ( *think* this is it - it doesn't say "digibook" specifically, but I'm not aware of several "deluxe editions" for the album) ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 13:58
Yes... Vitalogy... what concept of art man..!!! Pear Jam has the taste for it... you see the "B" sides collection of them... is called "Rearview Mirror" and seems like a mirror... and of course... is a digipack... but I still prefer the jewel cases... I mean... for all the standard albums... yes... the only ones who deserves the digipack are that big art concepts that we're talking about... jejeje... ------------- |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 14:00
| I got a mCD from Familha Artus in a packaging you can't visualize. I will take some pictures. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 14:04
I love digipaks, they are prettier than jewel cases but are a bugger to store - they don't fit in my wooden cd racks 
a tip - i have all my digipaks in acetate sleeves commonly bought from jewellery suppliers, they are cheap and will keep your badly stored digipaks in mint condition!
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 14:23
| Digipak for me. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 07 2009 at 14:35
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I actually prefer jewel cases. I got some "eco-pack" when I ordered 2112, and I really dislike the packaging. Then again, I really don't care, but I'll go with the standard jewel cases if I get a choice.
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