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Producing a Boxed Set?
Roger Cox asks: "You've probably seen them in the 'cheap cd' section at your local store. They are all over the place anymore. Box Sets. CDs/DVDs in a nicely designed 'box'. I happen to work for a music group overseas who has out 5 full length albums out in the US. With the band's permission I was given the ok to put the 5 releases in a box set format. Despite how readily available box sets appear to be at stores, where does one go online to get pricing for such a box. Almost an entire week of researching this with search engines has turned up nothing but junk. The problem is 'box' appears to be widely associated with cardboard shipping boxes, which also are available to be 'custom printed'. I figure if I can buy a 2 DVD box set of the Little Rascals at Walmart for $5.88, it should not be this hard to find a source to do the packaging. Any pointers?"
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If your "music" was worthy of being put in a boxed set, you'd have already been approached by the parties capable of doing such a thing.
you haven't, it isn't, sayonara.
........might be as easy as using quotations around your search criteria, or by by using "collection" when searching for DVDs.
You're welcome. Drive through.
Sometimes the thing you need is to know what the right word is to use. You didn't want "Box", you wanted "Packaging".
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
The companies that do speciality packaging aren't generally the online type of company.
Assuming you want reasonable quantities (like maybe 100,000), go to www.smythco.com, or call them and ask for sales.
Disclosure, I work for them.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Just because a label or promoter is not interested in their work does not mean it is not worth being published in a box set. There are lots of small bands who's CD's I own who I would gladly buy a box set from if one was available.
"Anything is possible with enough programmers, time and pizza." (Substitute caffeine for time as needed.)
People use 'box' for so many things. Reminds me of my favorite bumper sticker:
MY GIRLFRIEND CAN'T WRESTLE
BUT YOU SHOULD SEE HER BOX!
This is what they do. Figure out who you can go to to get CD's made. they should be able to give your a price.
Erlang Developer and podcaster
Just don't put all of your oggs in one basket...
I don't think they did the actual production of the boxes, but www.fivesided.com designed a metal lunch box for "My So Called Life", When they did a box set. The only have prototype pictures on the website, not the actual lunchbox. I have seen the finished product pictures however, and they were sweet!
Would that include all seventeen versions of 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'? Even the blotter edition?
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And it's more than quotes (although exact phrase is often helpful).
In this case, -cardboard, with the additions of custom and cd were enough. No where near as specific as I could have been, but 6th on the list seems to be a winner.
A little more refinement let's a few others worth considering (like these guys).
Try this CD Case that holds six cd's and then shrink-wrap it shut.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
Depending on how big a decision this is, I might go buy a couple of box sets that look the most appealing and aren't what you would consider outragiously expensive. On there somewhere, the manufacture left their mark. Find out who they are, and call them up. Many times, I'm sure you can figure this out without even buying the box.
And this is probably about as good as the search needs to be.
Google-fu is easy. Just imagine what the page for the object you're looking for might look like, and put the words (or phrases) that appear there in the search query in order of their uniqueness, and subtract out other words that might appear with the words you chose in other contexts. No housework necessary, but you're also not going to google your way out of a fight either.
Just don't put all of your oggs in one basket...
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Ohmigawd that's funny!!
(In this context anyway.
If I get mod points any time soon I'll come back and mod you up!
You're using a search engine to research this? Sheesh. Try using quotes around the term "box set" so you don't end up with sites about ugly televisions.
"My girlfriends pussy is as big as a house. as big as a house."
"Why'd you say it twice?"
"I didn't."
I highly recommend you check out Jewelboxing and Burgopak for some stylish CD/DVD packaging options.
where everything is on-line, and in demand on-demand by demand? They're not *entirely* bullshit. Sure maybe you don't have to now, and you're not the punchline. And really a "yet" should be appended to that But still.... It's worth noting. Maybe it isn't a big deal now. Maybe it won't be. While it's true not everyone wants to be first, no one wants to be left behind.
I've heard them referred to as "Digipacks" (possibly "Digiboxes"?) in the UK. May help?
Smegma.
Working for an advertising agency, we get all kinds off odd-ball projects. I've found most of the time a printing press rep. is the best contact. If they don't know, they know someone who knows.
Most of the time it's just a matter of designing around a template, then sending it off to press. They will handle the assembly.
I believe discmakers.com does it. Check out their site or give them a call.
Check out discmakers.com. They make these things really easy and have decent prices.
No, I'm not affiliated with them in any way, no kickbacks, nothing. I do know the owner of the place, though, and he's a very honest guy. A lot of people in the CD manufacturing industry are not.
Thanks for mentioning us. If anybody reading this thread wants to give the Jewelboxing system a try today, we'll knock ten bucks off a 20pack as a special Askslashdot deal. Follow this this link for more info.
It's that simple.
Anyone know where I can get some interest options for 8cm discs?
What is it with confusing illiterates using "anymore" when they shouldn't? This and the previous Ask Slashdot: Exporting Myself summaries had me reading those bits twice to decipher what the author actually meant.
01234567890123456789 I never thought that you would love me the way that you do.
01234567890123456789 I never thought that you would love me half as much as I do.
01234567890123456789 You say you wanna know everything about me. Well here you go.
01234567890123456789 You say you couldn't live your life without me. I don't know.
01234567890123456789 But if you want it girl, you've got it,
01234567890123456789 it's all right here,
01234567890123456789 in my box set.
01234567890123456789 I never thought that words like product could ever leave my lips,
01234567890123456789 but something happened to me somewhere that made me lose my grip.
01234567890123456789 Maybe it's a lack of inspiration that makes me stoop,
01234567890123456789 or maybe it's a lack of remuneration; I can't recoup.
01234567890123456789 But if you want it folks, you got it;
01234567890123456789 it's all right here in my box set.
01234567890123456789 Disc One
01234567890123456789 it's where we've begun, it's all our greatest hits,
01234567890123456789 and if you are a fan then you know that you've already got 'em.
01234567890123456789 Disc Two
01234567890123456789 it was all brand new, an album's worth of songs,
01234567890123456789 but we had to leave the whole disc blank 'cause
01234567890123456789 some other label bought 'em.
01234567890123456789 Disc Three
01234567890123456789 This is really me in a grade school play;
01234567890123456789 I had about a hundred thousand lines but of course I forgot 'em.
01234567890123456789 I never thought there'd be days like this, there was always someone at my door.
01234567890123456789 I never thought I would ever miss, and the crowd would always holler for more.
01234567890123456789 But now it seems all that people want is what I used to be,
01234567890123456789 and every time I try to do something new,
01234567890123456789 all they want is 1973.
01234567890123456789 I never thought I'd be regretful of all my past success.
01234567890123456789 But some stupid number one hit single has got me in this mess.
01234567890123456789 You can put it on every compilation - that's all right.
01234567890123456789 You can hear it on the oldies radio station every night.
01234567890123456789 And if you want it again, you got it
01234567890123456789 it's right here in my box set.
01234567890123456789 Disc Four
01234567890123456789 Never released before, and you can tell why.
01234567890123456789 it's just some demos I recorded in my basement.
01234567890123456789 Disc Five
01234567890123456789 I was barely alive, I was coughing up a lung,
01234567890123456789 so they had to use a special computer as my replacement.
01234567890123456789 Disc Six
01234567890123456789 A dance remix, so I can catch the latest trend
01234567890123456789 and it'll make you scratch your head and wonder
01234567890123456789 where my taste went.
01234567890123456789 So now my fans are crying sellout,
01234567890123456789 they say that I've lost my touch.
01234567890123456789 They say I should just get the hell out,
01234567890123456789 before I do too much.
01234567890123456789 Hear my songs in an ad for a bathroom cleanser -
01234567890123456789 they say it's greed,
01234567890123456789 And now I'm wondering where my friends are in this time of need.
01234567890123456789 But if you change your mind
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Try looking (or asking) on usenet boards to see what other people like. I order small quantities (10 to 500) of this sort of stuff from Americal. In this case, though, their usable CD cases max out a 4 CDs. Their 6 CD case doesn't have nubs for front or back cover inserts. But they are careful enough to warn you about that.
Most boxed sets are made using Digipacks. I have tons of Digipack CDs and one five disc box set (Iced Earth's Dark Genesis) Digipack. They can do basically anything you want. A standard four discs on the outer two panels with a book in the middle and a fifth disc stored on the back page of the book (like the Iced Earth box set) is certainly doable (all bound into one nice box with four color printing on the entire thing and with an outer protecting box). It can't be terribly expensive because the Iced Earth box set sold for $50 and was limited to something like 2000 copies.
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You need to find a Print Broker. There are usually a few in every major city, just look it up in the Business-to-Business yellow pages, or Yahoo, Google, whatever. The print/packaging is all the same, anyone could produce it. The broker's job is to find the best deal for you, and take a small cut in the process, but even with the broker's cut, it's always cheaper than muddling your own way through the deal. My friends use an LA broker but the final product sometimes come from as far away as Singapore, if the costs are right.
The publishers might be able to help you, or the people who did the box might have a company name on the box somewhere.
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