{"id":18343,"date":"2016-01-06T16:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18343"},"modified":"2016-01-07T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:59:39","slug":"the-worst-cd-case-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/06\/the-worst-cd-case-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst CD Case Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_8764.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Broken Project Pitchfor Live '97 CD from one of the storied, horrible metal CD cases.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/109608-2\/IMG_8764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the late 1990s some electronic\/industrial labels\u00a0were fond of using nice looking metal boxes instead of the typical <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_disc_packaging#Jewel_case\">jewel case<\/a>. These cases look great\u00a0(photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_8824.jpg.html\">closed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_8825.jpg.html\">open<\/a>), but their design resulted\u00a0in almost every disc they contained breaking.<\/p>\n<p>In this case\u00a0design the\u00a0disc was pressed on to a crimped metal protrusion in the center of the case. Due to the tight fit this caused almost every CD in these cases to crack on removal, or sometimes simply when being stored. As shown above, radial crack running out from the center was the result. Sometimes this would result in what was effectively a very scratched disc,\u00a0other times it&#8217;d cause the\u00a0entire disc to split in half. It&#8217;s a terrible, terrible design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the late 1990s some electronic\/industrial labels\u00a0were fond of using nice looking metal boxes instead of the typical jewel case. These cases look great\u00a0(photos:&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/06\/the-worst-cd-case-ever-made\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Worst CD Case Ever Made<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18347,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}