Some Notes On iTunes LP
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Some Notes On iTunes LP
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#2Great[edit: !!!] Would be even cooler if it fully worked in Safari and other browsers.
I guess they didn’t include fonts because of licensing woes. I wonder what that does to accessibility.
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#3I wish there were more LPs available out the door: I don't like the current selection, but I'd kill for a Tubular Bells LP done in this vein.
I can't wait till this catches on and there are thousands of LPs to pick from. This is the sort of extra functionality that makes buying music rather than stealing it worth the consumer's money.
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#4Great[edit: !!!] Would be even cooler if it fully worked in Safari and other browsers. I guess they didn’t include fonts because of licensing woes. I wonder what that does to accessibility.
The “Great.” is entirely non-sarcastic. Funny how “Great.” has come to denote sarcasm. I would guess that is why I was downvoted. If you mistake my “Great.” for sarcasm the comment is indeed vile. My mistake.
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#5Great[edit: !!!] Would be even cooler if it fully worked in Safari and other browsers. I guess they didn’t include fonts because of licensing woes. I wonder what that does to accessibility.
The “Great.” is entirely non-sarcastic. Funny how “Great.” has come to denote sarcasm. I would guess that is why I was downvoted. If you mistake my “Great.” for sarcasm the comment is indeed vile. My mistake.
An exclamation mark helps - "Great!"
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
The “Great.” is entirely non-sarcastic. Funny how “Great.” has come to denote sarcasm. I would guess that is why I was downvoted. If you mistake my “Great.” for sarcasm the comment is indeed vile. My mistake.
An exclamation mark helps - "Great!"
See my edit :)
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#7One thought I've had:
Do this for education and textbooks. Has anyone tried to create a simple iTunes LP themselves and open it in iTunes.
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#8I see no point to this at all, but seems some people like it. When I listen to music I'm appreciating the creative output of the artist; there's no need for it to be dolled up by animated web pages and visualisers and what not. In fact I find that kind of thing distracting and usually annoying, like those DVDs which have some half-ass custom menu effect meant to "put you in the mood" or something; I wish I could just skip it.
Still, glad (and somewhat surprised) to see it's not an encrypted, proprietary black box. Kudos to Apple for that and a great advertisement for the excellent Webkit.
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#9I see no point to this at all, but seems some people like it. When I listen to music I'm appreciating the creative output of the artist; there's no need for it to be dolled up by animated web pages and visualisers and what not. In fact I find that kind of thing distracting and usually annoying, like those DVDs which have some half-ass custom menu effect meant to "put you in the mood" or something; I wish I could just…
I can see if this is poorly done it will become annoying like a repeating DVD intro for sure. But as an artist, this also gives an opportunity to be not just musical but visual and even interactive. If it's based on webkit, sky's the limit for what you can embed. A listener chatter box? Why not? These could totally hook up to a server for interactive elements and ongoing content updates. You could tell a whole story in one of these.
I love vinyl LPs because the larger visual format is more immersive and I take the time out to enjoy the experience. On the computer, I find all music becomes background music, which is a shame. So I'm really looking forward to what artists (myself included, hopefully :) will do with this. I hope it lives up to that experience and becomes the new standard "LP" that other players adopt too.
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#10I wish I could find info for artists on creating these. So much potential for creativity here, and I hope that's opened up to indies sooner than later and not just the majors.