History:Next Generation Schema/Release Packaging

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  • Jewel Case
  • Slim Jewel Case
  • Digipak
  • Japanese 8cm CD single long style package ex.1 ex.2
  • Cardboard Sleeve -- (note: in the current ngs database, this is listed as "Paper Sleeve". If we're actually going to have this much detail, some users are going to list "Other" for cardboard or plastic sleeves. Maybe we should just go with "Sleeve" or "Slipcover".) Torc 03:03, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Keep Case
  • Ecopack
  • Funny/Fancy/Novelty pack, perhaps as "Custom Case" (I've got a penguin shaped CD box)
  • CD / DVD as part of a book, common with training CD/DVD's (in fact this isn't a packaging)
  • Clear vinyl sleeve (picture disc etc.)
  • Picture frame (very rare but as a collector you come across strangest types of packaging)
  • Wooden box (some Connoisseur Collection CD's came in a wooden box)
  • Double Case
  • Triple Case
  • Quad Case
  • Lunchbox
  • miniature milk crate (I've been seeing a bunch of these milk crate CDs at sites I've worked at; they have the CD and a t-shirt. BrianSchweitzer 18:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC))
  • Tin box containing Jewel Case -- jacobbrett 01:35, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
  • None (no packaging: essentially standard for digital media releases.)
  • (please add new types here)


for cassettes:

  • J-card case (aka "standard" cassette case)
  • polybox
  • cardboard sleeve
  • double case

for wax cylinders:

  • canister