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   Covers

   

   art, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 3:31am

   
   

   Frequently, the cover art is better than the music, not to mention it containing improtant information. There is a terrible assumption these days that people only listen to newly recorded music - 60% of what I listen to was recorded before 1950 and I am interested in the details. A bare MP3 doesn't give me those.

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   Physical texture

   

   dorpus, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 5:04am

   
   

   There are people who can "read" what a CD's print letters say by tracing it with their fingers. Miss the plastic factory smell of new CD's too. Well, that's assuming there is any music worth listening to.
   
   
   

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 7:14am

   
   

   Art is a great seller of music, Books, etc. First impressions are a must. I MISS full size albums for that reason alone. Many of my 'give it a try' buys were based solely on the art for the artists offering ... and I'm still very much swayed by a books cover art presentation.
   
   While many of these buys were just plain BAD, many got me interested in groups I would never have sampled otherwise.
   
   Yeah, the art is important ... it's much like meeting person for the first time ... APPEARANCES COUNT !!!
   
   WIth the coming of the online stores, apple, napster, walmart, etc, we're going to be innuedated with choices which eventually may have no art associated with them. I seriously doubt that we're going to randomly click on a track to sample it UNLESS it's already got good word of mouth .... or god forbid ... a pop up add plays 30 seconds of the song to get you attention. hmmmmmmmmmm

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   synesthesia

   

   aNonMooseCowherd, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 8:34am

   
   

   Too bad you don't have synesthesia.

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   Chris, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 9:04am

   
   

   I bought my share of albums back in the 80's based on the album cover art. Most of those albums sucked. Now I can sample the artist's music online and thus I very rarely buy CD's that I ultimately don't like.
   
   I grew up in the era of the album. I decorated my bedroom wall with album covers. There is nothing like a few Iron Maiden album covers over your bed to freak your parents out ;)I remember when CD's were introduced. I don't care about cover art anymore. I don't read liner notes anymore either. When I get a new CD I burn a copy for the car, rip it to an MP3, and then the original CD gets put into my CD Jukebox and the case gets trashed. The only hard part of the process is deciding what gets removed from the jukebox and relegated to the auxillary CD storage where it will likely never get played again.
   
   
   

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   Cover art on mp3 players?

   

   Peteo, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 1:02pm

   
   

   Maybe when OLED's get cheap enough, hard drive based mp3 players will have color screens that can show the cover art work. Maybe there will be art work for each song. Better yet, if electronic ink pans out maybe the face of your Mp3 player will change to the cover art work!

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   digital art for music

   

   Mark Hardie, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 5:29pm

   
   

   The medium is in its infancy, but just as album cover art evolved so will digital music art. Imagine each track comes with its own screensaver or slideshow, while albums replace iTunes fractals with more elaborate screen presentations or just the music video. The possibilities are endless.

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   Brady, Nov 6th, 2003 @ 6:06pm

   
   

   I'm betting that mp3 players like the iPod will eventually have color screens that will display the album cover art. Somehow the art will be linked to the ID3 tag.

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   oh yeah

   

   eeyore, Nov 7th, 2003 @ 6:40am

   
   

   yeah, how many people bought an album or CD because there was a hot half-naked babe on the cover. Anybody (well, any guy) who say they didn't is lying.
   
   You also have to wonder how well any of the boy bands would sell if they all looked like Bill Gates.

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