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July 19, 2003
mp3 image tags @06:28 PM
here's a question for all two or three of you that are *maybe* reading this. I have a feeling mark might know this, but I'd probably forget to ask him the next time I see him...
So I've gotten a little addicted to downloading albums (I'm still an album person -- singles are for no-talent ass clowns) on the iTunes music store. Apparently, a ton of other people have been afflicted in a similar fashion, although probably in a more singles-oriented way. The issue I'm having is that I want the art in some form. Give it to me digitally, even - that way I can at least see if it affects me in bit form.
So iTunes itself allows you to fix at least a bit of image information to the album - although at this point it appears that you have to locate an image file and affix it to the track manually.
So the question is, has anyone done anything about attaching either a image file, or a pointer to an image, as one of the tags. Then when I download an album, I've got this self contained digital version of the album, art and all. It might alter the way that mp3 players look, if they need to come up with a better way to deal with images, but it might be cool.
There's something to be said about the tangible, physical cd + jewel case + artwork, but more and more I find myself buying a cd, opening it, then slapping it in my cd drive and ripping it. I've definitely been ignoring the cd-art more than I did pre-mp3 ubiquity. And surprisingly, I've been pretty engaged by some of the web album-previewers out there, which typically try and integrate the artwork some how. Two examples are below.
http://www.flaminglips.com
http://www.zwan.com
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While I am a strong fan of the tangible, if you are going to have music being played to you on a computer, it only makes sense to have a slideshow like art available. I built a system a while ago (98 I think) with Matt and Ian and Niko that that was a bit kludgy but was fairly compelling - just got a 4 track tape recorder and embedded a 'control track' on one track and the stereo music on two more tracks. The control track then was used to 'hit' a key on a keyboard, and then javascript was used to use this keypress to move to a new url. By 'tagging' the artist's websites and fans websites in this fashion, a pretty nice 'slideshow' could be put together in 20 minutes or so. It was less perceptually agressive than a video, but visually engaging none-the-less. (In those days, the idea was that if you actually bought the music, then the control track would be embedded on the CD and would give you a visual experience for free. This was a bit before MP3s really took off, so maybe it was pre 98.). Anyway, I have been told that slideshow viewers are now de rigeur for mp3 players - but I have not actually tried any of them. Also, I like the idea of not so much seeing the 'right' slide show for a song - but instead being able to see a 'surfing experience' that goes along with the song.
Posted by: mbolas at July 20, 2003 10:21 PM