How do I convert a NEW cardboard CD sleeve? Can inserts be moved/fitted into a standard jewel case?!

APennySaved

Have just bought a great CD album: Harry Connick Jr "True Love". Sadly now can't store it.

It it has arrived in the new idea for storing CDs: a cardboard sleeve.

These, we find, are sadly useless as:
(1) the CD always slips out of the open end, as there is nothing to hold it inside the case!
(2) Plus as the spine is slim, the sleeve is unreadable
(3) Again as the spine is slim the sleeve can easily get lost on a storage shelf or CD rack.
(4) And as these sleeves are made of soft cardboard, the albums get squashed on the bookshelves. Again, more unreadable spine labels!

They are yet another step down from another new'ish case design: DigiPaks, where although part of the case was plastic i.e. firm, many of the above problems occurred & the CD again used to fall out of the plastic base. Hey-ho! ,-)

Whatever next will the album makers sell us?! Perhaps NO case at all! ,-D

The answer is to return to a closable case like the rigid plastic of the old standard plastic jewel case.

And, yes, we DO recycle: all the time when it comes to plastic, glass, paper, etc., etc. So it's a grump to have to return to plastic cases. But this is one design where something firm & closable - like the old jewel case -  appears to be the only storage solution. We've had enough of CDs rolling all over the house!

Have checked & this album - and many other new albums - is not released by the record label in any other type of case. :-(

So what I am hoping iis to find a way to transform the inserts to fit in an old-style jewel case.

I can't find anything online to guide re this. (Except info e.g. on these newer types of packs at: www.musicgateway.com/blog/music-industry/music-production/digipak-cd.)

And cutting up the inserts still leaves them with an unreadable spine. We tried that idea!! And none of the inserts fit well enough to stay in place, as they are smaller than the inserts for a jewel case. :-(

Any ideas by you crafters out there??

twopenny

When I did mine I used a jewel case and printed off the insert on the usual A4 paper with - from right to left - 

the title going down the spine, front cover a photo and title,and then a list of what was on the disc.

This last bit would fold over to view inside the case.

I just used Word I think. Taking the letters down the spine by using Tabs or spaces. I may have used columns to keep them in place. Can't remember but the result can be very professional.

You can scan in the actual cover from the cardboard one and use that as the front. Choose a font for the spine to match.

I still like to see these done as it's more like an album that something saved to a computer in a bog standard icon in a computer list and I still love my CD's. There's something personal about them.