What's the best kind of CD case to prevent scratches?
We have one with the slide-in vinyl pockets with the white soft 'protectors'.
The other is the kind with the connected plastic parts that are like the inside of the jewel box the CD comes in. The CD just presses on, no 'protector'.
My son has a bunch of favorite CD's that have gotten scratched up. While he admits he isn't the best at putting back in the carrying case, them away, he thinks they're getting scratched in the cases.
One theory is that the white so-called 'protectors' get dust & dirt embedded in the material. He thinks just plain vinyl pockets would be better.
An idea I have is on the other kind of case, where it's held by the whole. I can see the CD's rubbing against the backing. However, those would be circular scratches.
Anybody got any ideas, solutions, sites? on this?
The consolation: In spite of his whole collection deteriorrating, I thin for the amount of play they get, the CD's are lasting better than casette tapes would.
My old tapes would get bound up and warble or do other things, get eaten in the player occasionally, etc., and the sparkle of a trashed tape blowing in the wind is a familiar roadside .