when the center plastic thing that holds the cd in place splinters into little bits

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i hate that!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:08 (twenty-three years ago)

you may now return back to yr regularly scheduled ilm

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't mind unless it's on a digipak

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah that just happened to me! i can't do much about it cuz the cardboard is glued to the plastic part

also worst is when the little plastic things scratch the cd without you knowing

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm sure someone could make a packet selling little replacement ones that you can just stick in the hole where the holding bits used to be

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah but but why are they so shoddy in the first place?! they shd be made out of titanium!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god, Arabic CDs are the worst for this. They make the shoddiest CD cases in the middle east. Either that, or the cases are traumatized by the time they make it to the U.S.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Metal CD holders aren't flexible enough and tend to break the CDs.

Basic Channel used to put out their CDs in lovely metal boxes but most of the ones I encountered (3 out of 5) the CD had cracked all the way through.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

1 more reason to be felt up by your LP.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I've had this happen with a lot of Matador products.
Also, the staples in Magnet ALWAYS fall apart.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It's at this point (breaking spindle-things) that I curse all msuic and culture and go for a walk outside.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Every single copy of REM's Monster ever manufactured does that. I think it's something about the cheap orange plastic they used that makes it disintegrate to the touch.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

- W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Very annoying when you order a cd online, and right when you open it the thing is broken and the cd is kinda scratched from moving about.

― andy, Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

-- tigerclawskank:

Yep, my only Basic Channel purchase resulted in a broken cd after a couple weeks

― andy, Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was recently talking about this...someone could make a mint selling kits that would allow people to fix up digipaks by breaking off the rest of the inner clawtabs and sticking a sturdy self-adhering replacement where the claws used to be. It couldn't be THAT expensive to manufacture something like that...?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why I am thankful for a donation of a couple hundreds of empty CD cases from a fellow library employee who didn't need them anymore...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

It's especially annoying when this happens to double CD cases. This has happened to both G'N'R Live Era and Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Why have the same crap cases for CDs stuck around for so long. Seems like any idot could come up with a better solution. I mean regualr cases brake to easily and are a bit bulky, digipack are okay but you're screwed if they break (and I find they get a worn look too easily if you aren;t careful), purely flat cardboard cases as well. I mean, it seems like a simple design problem.

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 30 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

DVDs have the same size hole, and they managed to come up with a non-breakable solution. I suppose it's the extra $5 or $10 that you pay for those that makes it possible.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 31 January 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

nickn: there's several different designs for this part in cds... i will take pictures of the major types and people can report on failure rates

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 31 January 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Sound Circus's digipacks hold the CDs via a relatively firm bit of spongy stuff, which seems a decent solution.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 31 January 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the idea of using a CaseLogic-style insert in a plastic case. Patti Smith's "Land" CD almost did this right - but the plastic case was huge. But the inserts are replaceable and you can store 1 CD or 4. (Take the tray out of a jewel case & just put CDs in it - how many fit? 3 or 4 innit? So making a less-brittle case, like a DVD case the size of a CD, that has no spindle - just replaceable inserts.. And they need to improve on the inserts so you don't have to slide the CD to get it out...

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 31 January 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

dear jel,
It's especially annoying when this happens to double CD cases. This has happened to both G'N'R Live Era and Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits
man, you should be thankful, this is a blessing. you will praise later.

― chad (chad), Saturday, 1 February 2003 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie - Sound & Vision in that greenish tint thing from Rykodisc broke almost immediately without any real pressure.

and yeah, those cheap double cd comps are the worst with the hinges.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 1 February 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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