Packaging device for disc-shaped items and related materials and method for packaging such discs and material

A packaging device comprising: at least one disc-shaped media having an annular center aperture; an elongated base having elongated side walls defining a lower chamber, said lower chamber being bounded at one end by a bottom wall, wherein said side walls terminate in a rim distal from said bottom wall, said rim defining a lower opening spanning the entire distance between said side walls and providing the sole means of access to said lower chamber for receiving said other materials; a cover assembly comprising a cover and said at least one disc-shaped media, said cover having an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein said upper surface includes a recess which defines an upper chamber having an upper opening therein for receiving said at least one disc-shaped media; means for attaching said cover assembly to said base about said lower opening such that said cover assembly covers said lower opening, wherein said cover assembly is adapted to be repeatedly removed and reattached to said base to provide repeated unobstructed access through said lower opening to said lower chamber; and means for retaining said disc-shaped media within said upper chamber against lineal movement therein in either the plane of the recording media or perpendicular to the plane of the recording media, while simultaneously allowing said recording media to rotate about the axis perpendicular to the plane of the recording media.