....anyone else almost break the damned thing while trying to get it out of the jewel box? I'm afraid to put it back onto the spindle, out of fear of the disc snapping in two the next time I try to remove it!
I can imagine the horror. My advice is to press in the middle real hard and twist and carefully lift the disc at the same time. Otherwise you can break off a few teeth from the cd tray to make it easier to remove the cd the next time. I once had a disc which got stuck so tight on the spindle that the cd was broken in the inner ring. I never put it back in the cd box again and store it seperate in a plastic sleeve.
I find it helps to squeeze the nub teeth together once the disc is out to loosen them up. Or just replace the disc tray with another less grabby one.
I find this a real problem with those slim double CD jewel cases as the discs are virtually impossible to free without severe bending or by breaking off one of the teeth. I hate those cases, much prefer the older fat double cases.
I've long had an irrational fear of breaking CDs in just this way when removing them for the first time. This fear finally became a reality (but in another medium) when I cracked the DVD of 1975's The Yakuza when attempting to remove it. Hoping it doesn't happen again!
Not saying it's impossible but it's not real easy to break a CD. I've seen some bend over like a piece of rubber before they snap. When I was a wee lad, me and a few neighborhood toughs would play street hockey with those old AOL discs they'd send out in the mail. I think the longest one ever lasted was about two games of kissing asphalt.
Of course, trying to use the disc as intended in that condition was another story.
I had the fear-of-snapping problem with all 20 discs of the Star Trek TOS Blu-ray set. They're NEVER going back on the hubs. I put them all into individual paper envelopes like these:
It happens to me twice. Once with a cd and once with a dvd.
Both got bend trying to wiggle them of the nub and layers came apart. You could see the colouring where it happened. That’s two instances in the decades I probably had ten thousands of cd’s in my hands, but I wasn’t happy about it.
I had the fear-of-snapping problem with all 20 discs of the Star Trek TOS Blu-ray set. They're NEVER going back on the hubs. I put them all into individual paper envelopes like these:
Come to think of it the cool 15 cd ST is brittle as hell - I learnt my lesson taking cd's out vertical while standing up, I got the disc out but a spine snapped & by surprise jolted the case out of hand, sorry mess.
