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+title = "Digipacks"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-11-13T21:15:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+Abstract = """
+  My gripe with "premium" CD packaging
+  """
+Listening = "The Cure - Songs of a Lost World"
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+
+With the resurgence of CDs, something had to break.
+We could not simply get a **great** format, they had to break it.
+My guess it went like this:
+
+> You know what people loved about vinyl?
+> Paper sleeves.
+> Let's put them everywhere
+>
+> -- some random CEO
+
+And so we got the digipack.
+They are not new, we had them back in the day.
+But now they are _in_.
+New CD releases seems to abandon that old, boring jewel-case in favor of paper.
+But even that was not enough!
+Yes, they may shred any minute but wait.
+What if, and this is very important, the would damagey the disc?
+Brilliant!
+
+Case in point, a _good_ digipack (as much as a digipack can be good):
+
+{{< image class="Centered" alt="Orange paper case for CD. The CD is locked in a plastic container." file="jazz-sabbath.jpg" >}}
+Jazz Sabath - Vol I
+{{< /image >}}
+
+CD cases were designed to protect the disc.
+And the one containing _Jazz Sabbath_ does this.
+We've got a plastic inlay making sure the disc:
+
+-   can be removed easily, without touching the bottom
+-   never touches the case with their backs, even if rotated like crazy.
+
+But here have we have a terrible one:
+
+{{< image class="Centered" alt="A blurry image of a long, paper envelope on cds. The discs are hidden inside the envelope." file="the-cure-songs-odw.jpg" >}}
+The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
+(yes, it is blurry. I have noticed)
+{{< /image >}}
+
+You will notice, that the disc needs to be picked with two fingers even after pushing it to eject from the envelope.
+Not only is any dust in the envelope scratching the disc, right after it escapes the (much to narrow) case, it needs to be cleaned as there is no way not to grease its bottom.
+And the bottom is what is important!
+That's where the laser goes lalalala!
+That's also where the finger grease and sand scratches will go.
+
+Argh.