[Ti] iTunes 4.6...

[Wilhelm Wanders]

i am 27 now,
i grew up in europe (germany) with a few late impressions of the 80s 
... got lost in techno of 90s and have to listen to really bad music on 
the radio right now.
for me, artwork is not important - yes i bought lp's when i was little 
... and i enjoyed cd's and their inlays as well, but music was the 
really important stuff ...
i grew into the habit of having all my music on my harddrives (i 
haven't used a cd in years) i have no artwork whatsoever anymore and 
don't miss it at all.
if i want to have music - i can download it anywhere - for free if i 
like -- but i don't even download music anymore ... online radio a.s.o 
is enough selection for me.
as  a hobby (i could imagine) i would get a lp player and play some 
nice old music and also enjoy the whole thing, but i don't need to 
enjoy todays cd covers with naked men and woman or teenagers trying to 
sell millions (successfully)
so my final thought on music and covers is: screw the new music/covers; 
enjoy the old stuff if you want
there was a homepage called covers.cc .... they had to close and are 
now up again, but not with audio cd covers .... a good concept might 
bring you some money .... it can't be that you only get such a small 
image file into itunes .... 225 pixels ? why even bother then ?

another question on my side would be: what quality does an itunes song 
have? (bitrate and format) i don't want to enjoy beethoven or bach in 
128kbit on mp3

^_^


On Jun 10, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Christopher Murphy wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> The following is slightly off-topic for this specific list, however, if
> anyone can assist me with feedback, opinions and/or answers I'd very 
> much
> welcome it as it would feed into my current teaching and research.
>
> As a designer who's been interviewed more than a few times recently 
> about
> the nature of the artwork that accompanies CDs, vinyl and other 'lost'
> formats 'disappearing' I'd really welcome further input/thoughts on 
> this
> (off list if you prefer).
>
> Quote:
>
> <<I noticed it supports having more than one piece of artwork in an 
> MP3.>>
>
> <Multiple artwork per an MP3 or ACC file in iTunes was available in 
> previous
> versions.>
>
> I'm a designer based in the UK, i.e. with no purchasing power at the 
> iTunes
> Music Store (yet!), and can only import artwork into iTunes by 
> searching
> on Google, Amazon and/or other search engines/online stores and then
> dragging and dropping the artwork into iTunes. (This in itself is an 
> issue
> fraught with copyright problems that I think Apple has failed to 
> address by
> allowing this feature in iTunes).
>
> Whenever I import album artwork into iTunes it is re-sampled at 225 x 
> 225
> pixels square resolution, often resulting in cover artwork that is 
> blurred,
> covered in digital compression 'artefacts' and, generally, of poorer 
> quality
> than the artwork that accompanies my physically purchased CDs.
>
> My research and concerns are twofold:
>
> 1. How does the everyday user feel about the loss of packaging that
> inevitably accompanies the shift towards digital media?
>
> Music has always had a strong design element. Consider The Beatles' 
> 'Sgt.
> Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', designed by the British pop artist 
> Peter
> Blake (long established through polls to be one of the most 
> recognisable
> icons of British visual culture). With the shift towards digital media 
> the
> need for packaging (to protect an item - in the traditional sense) is 
> lost.
> If we follow this to its logical conclusion we run the risk of losing 
> visual
> icons like the above...
>
> Does the possibility that the visual aspects of music may be lost as a
> result of the shift towards downloadable music worry the everyday 
> consumer?
> Or does it only worry designers?
>
> 2. Getting right to the point. Would the average listener on this list 
> be
> prepared to pay an additional fee for digital artwork (visual, 
> interactive,
> whatever...) to complement downloadable audio?
>
> I'm trying to establish through my research what real value the 
> everyday
> user places on the visual accompaniment to audio.
>
> I've no doubt most of the contributors to this list have a favourite 
> album
> cover, one that stands out in their memory, that - if they saw it - 
> they
> could place immediately. Again, think Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of 
> the
> Moon'. How do we feel about the fact that as we shift towards digital 
> audio
> distribution we may lose this whole slice of culture forever?
>
> If you can spare five minutes - off-list if you prefer - to give me 
> your
> thoughts on this I would very much appreciate it. It would feed into my
> current research as a university lecturer and you would, of course, be 
> fully
> credited.
>
> My address is: chris.murphy at ulster.ac.uk (or) chris at fallt.com
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Christopher @ Fallt
>
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