Digipack

Digipacks are a type of CD packaging made out of card or other heavy paper material. Digipacks purpose is to provide information about the album. Digipacks can flip open like a book, or it can have three parts, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the center portion. Usually, the portion of the digipack that hold the CD is made of plastic like a traditional jewel case CD - the plastic part is simply attached to the paper background.

Ancient Shadows digipack

Pros and Cons

• They look nice, and many bands and labels like to use them for aesthetic reasons. The three section digipack sleeves opens up more design options because there is more room. However, they're more expensive than traditional liner notes and jewel cases.
• Digipacks don't crack like jewel cases do, but they will rip and eventually the paper begins to peel apart and separate.
• When the teeth of the tray break in a digipack, the CD falls out of the bottom of the digipack, because unlike jewel cases, there is nothing to hold it in.
• Digipacks can be more environmentally friendly than jewel cases because they can be made of recycled paper - however, they aren't always in fact made in this way.