Posted on 09/18/2005 7:44:51 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I am giving up CDs. Within the next several months, I expect most of my family's CDs will be converted for playing on our iPods and personal computers. The actual CDs will either be sold or given away. As more people connect their digital music players to their home stereos and car stereos, they realize they have no use for the racks of CDs taking up space in their homes. If you no longer play CDs, why keep them? That is the conclusion my wife and I reached, and that is why I am completing the arduous process of moving the music to more compact computer storage from the CDs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
My Ipod play lists include music mixed with comedy, old time radio broadcasts, books on "tape"...etc...
Ipods rock.
Back up.
You're not alone, although some day I anticipate that I'll go the way of the iPod. I was pleased to read that liner notes, lyrics, and covers will become available.
The post at #3 is interesting.
My wife has a 20GB iPod. Over 2300 songs now and 7.5 GB in use. She takes it to work for background music while she is dispatching the local police/fire/EMS.
You're a bitter little man, aren't you?
Wrong, Melas, the Nano is a flash drive device...
I guess I just don't feel the need for a dedicated MP3 player.
Mark
Who're you calling "little"? Now shoo.
I don't know what to do. I am old. I am so confused.
I think, since the post referenced was addressed to you, that he was referring to you. Prabably accurately, since you seem to feel a compulsion to come into Apple related threads and insult everyone who uses Apple products. You may think its funny or cute, but really it is tiresome and crude... as well as rude. Frankly you and your actions seem quite juvenile.
As to your "shooing" anyone away, YOU are the irritating pest, not those who respond to your insults. You are fast wearing out your welcome on these threads.
iCultists seem so bloody brittle and defensive.
"I doubt that Roger Dean would have created the fantastic art for the Yes LPs for a CD cover, much less for an iTunes download."
/begin vanity
I had the rare pleasure of meeting and talking with Roger Dean, and thanking him for inspiring my career - I also do album cover art. Wonderful guy, just really the nicest guy. It was at a gallery show he did here in the states, and had most of the actual art for the covers there - it was AMAZING. The cover for Relayer, for example, is TINY - usually you work BIG, and reduce for printing, but that, and the cover for "Topographical Oceans", are quite small. The first Asia cover is ENORMOUS, tho - I wanted to buy it SOOO bad. (Not for sale)
/end vanity
Anyway, looking at Roger's career, i think he would have done the work regardless, as he was'nt only a illustrator - he came from an industrial design/architecture/theater background, and dabbled in everything along the way - his work with Yes was not only the art, but in the stage sets as well, and I believe he alaso dabbled with costumes. While the 12" LP format was heaven for us album artists (I got two in before the LP died), the CD cover can still be as rewarding, and you still create the art large, because along with the CD cover it's used for posters, merchandising displays, t-shirts, what have you. His work with the band was more than just because of it's size, or for the money, he was exploring ideas nobody had really tried, and was integrating his ideas of theater design, architecture, graphic design, and illustration.
If you can find his books, get "Magnetic Views" and "Views", both of which chronicle his work with his brother ( I have both, and my copy of Views is signed by him with a personal joke between me and him. NOT for sale!). He was also involved in computer games (Hipgnosis), and publishing.
He's quite a guy, I'm glad I got to meet him. I think he'd have been just as famous for working with Yes, regardless.
As for me, while i miss LPs, and the space we had, I'm fine with the CD cover, and even iTunes - at least the art is included!
A lesser-known iTunes trick, which amazes everyone, but it well documented: If you create a playlist of an album that has the art attached, especially if you bought it from iTunes, and you go to the print menu, it will automatically create a 2-panel cd cover, with crop marks and all, and you can either have a montage of the albums (if more than one), or the actual cover, and on the other panel, the track listing and other info, all customizable.
I'm betting within a year or two, ALL album info, cd art (for printers that can print onto cds), and posters will come with album purchases through iTunes. The bands love iTunes, it's becomming kind of a rite of passage to be on there, but I'll tell ya, us artists and photographers and producers and engineers and all the other people who get credited (and sometimes contractually credited) are a bit irked by the absence of that info.
I've heard a few things that point towards that being included, either as XML files that sit in the album folder, or attached to the MP3 files, or as bonus downloads (high res posters) when you buy the whole album.
Cut out the ad hominem attacks and insults, Hank. Your comments add nothing to the discourse. Other Freepers have been banned or suspended for doing this.
well, I'd love an ipod...
But I put all my music on a laptop when I moved to the Philippines, and backed up mp3's on cd's for my favorites...
and sent my grandson the music on an external hard drive.
When ipods get under $150, I'll ask him to buy one and stick the music on it for me...
I don't have one yet, but have been considering it for podcasts of Rush. When Tony gets a podcast, I will have to make the plunge for sure.
I would have tended to agree with you, but my technically-challenged wife got one this weekend and I haven't seen her since. These things are pretty well thought out.
I don't own one, but my nephew does and I've looked at it and listened. I don't see the lure. Of course, I'm not an audiophile. Just plain old FM radio and CDs sound fine to me and Rush on AM or on the computer live stream works for me.
< You can carry thousands of songs with you and play them in the car or at home. >
...but I don't NEED thousands of songs.
You're lucky that luters aren't being shot.
You can listen to Rush on the ipod. One reason I am considering one. I work weird hours.
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