The music industry has been particularly creative this year in compiling box sets suitable for the holiday gift-giving season. Featuring CDs, DVDs and sometimes both formats, along with elaborate packaging and better-than-ever sound quality, the material frequently makes for a music lover’s dream.

These sets are often limited editions, so consider getting an early start on your holiday shopping.

• Louis Armstrong, “The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong” (Time-Life) $39.98 list. With music recorded between 1931 and 1967, this two-CD, one-DVD box gets to the heart and soul of one of America’s greatest musicians.

• Bee Gees, “The Studio Albums 1967-1968” (Reprise) $74.98 list. The Bee Gees are best known for “Saturday Night Fever,” but brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb had quite a career long before disco mania.

• The Doors, “Perception” (Rhino/Elektra) $149.98 list. The Doors, “The Doors by the Doors” (Hyperion – hardcover book) $45 list. Some may consider this overkill, as there have already been two other quite comprehensive Doors box sets, but this six-CD/DVD extravaganza takes things one step further.

• Michael Jackson, “Visionary – The Video Singles” (Epic/Legacy) $149.98 list. The gloved one’s mega-hits are packed neatly into this box that contains 20 “DualDisc” singles, each accompanied by the video for that song.

• Dolly Parton, “The Acoustic Collection 1999-2002” (Sugar Hill) $31.98 list

Three of the best albums Dolly Parton ever recorded are included in this four-CD box, which is filled with the vintage bluegrass music with which Parton grew up.

No “9 to 5” here. Instead, the singer’s Smoky Mountain roots shine on “The Grass Is Blue,” “Little Sparrow” and “Halos and Horns.” The fourth bonus disc is a DVD containing three Parton videos, five new mixes, and the Kasey Chambers and Sinead O’Connor contributions to the Parton tribute album “Just Because I’m a Woman.”

• Elvis Presley, “The Ed Sullivan Shows” (Image Entertainment/DVD) $29.99 list

Arguably the most important performances in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, Elvis Presley’s televised appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show” set the world afire in 1956. This three-disc set features the entirety of all three shows, including appearances by Carol Burnett, baseball great Jackie Robinson and others, as well as Presley classics such as “Love Me Tender,” “Hound Dog,” “Ready Teddy” and plenty more. The original Kinescopes have been enhanced by a new process aimed at maximizing the sound and visual quality.

• Bob Santelli, “Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” (Chronicle Books) $35 list

One of the best music-related book offerings of this season is this biography of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, written by Bob Santelli, a former music critic with New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press, who covered Springsteen for decades.

To make it all the more intimate, E Street Band members participated in making the book. It contains more than 200 photos, handwritten notes, documents and other rare mementos from the band’s career, some dating back as far as the 1960s.

• Frank Sinatra, “Vegas” (Reprise) $79.98 list

This lavish four-CD, one-DVD box set vividly recaptures the magic of Frank Sinatra from various Las Vegas performances.

Previously unreleased concerts from 1961, 1966, 1982 and 1987 are included on the CDs, featuring Sinatra staples like “Witchcraft,” “Come Fly With Me,” “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “Theme From New York, New York.”

The DVD is a real treasure, culled from a May 5, 1978, show by Sinatra at one of his favorite haunts: Caesar’s Palace. The concert was being filmed for a CBS program about a new singer getting her first big break, and included several guest appearances by Vegas stars. Only a few Sinatra songs were originally broadcast back then, but the whole show was filmed, including backstage footage, making it a major find from the vaults. Performances on the DVD include “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “Baubles, Bangles and Beads,” “My Kind of Town” and a beautiful “Send in the Clowns.”