Comments on: Should I do something about metadata?

By: Rafael Aldon

Rafael Aldon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:39:29 +0000

The price of convenience….

This article highlights some very real failings in the download buying experience and raises some great questions.

Having made the conscious decision to stop storing hundreds of cd’s on my walls, for the last 9 years I have lined Apples pockets downloading music only to be left feeling somewhat vacuous by the experience. I now believe this lack of supporting information is doing the artist, label, producers etc a massive disservice.

This was reinforced to me recently whilst in the studio recording a new track. Having done an initial mix our attention turned to who we would ideally want to master the song and very soon the moment of realization came that the thousands of downloads I had bought were of no help whatsoever as they don’t include it.

Every download should have to have credits on who wrote, performed, produced, mastered etc it as a bare minimum but surely labels should be looking at how to add value to legal downloads to build customer loyalty.

I am certainly going to make sure anything we release addresses these points.

Thanks for a great site!

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Popkomm « Penny Distribution’s Blog — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:46:39 +0000

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By: Universal Indie Records

Universal Indie Records — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:13:53 +0000

We’ve just done a virtual cd booklet for our next release for those interested in seeing it…..

http://universalindie.com/virtual/thathrowback/

By: Andrew Potterton

Andrew Potterton — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:03:04 +0000

I just want to echo Glen Marshall’s last comments. The New Music Strategies is great stuff.
I tell many clients about your site.
Keep up the good work.

Andrew Potterton. Manchester

By: glen marshall

glen marshall — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:05:30 +0000

Hi
I am a producer and a studio owner. I have been following nms for about a year or so. Ive passed on your links to hundreds of clients and friends and have had such great success with so many of your suggestions and directions I just thought I would finally stop and say thanks for your insights.

Cheers,
Glen Marshall,
Producer + Partner,
Vibewrangler Studio.

By: beez

beez — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:15:51 +0000

I’m allover this. As a serial sleeve reader and follower of producers and musicians I find the worst thing about downloaded music to be the lack of information. I wish all my my iTunes files had Producer credits and listed the players. Yes I can enter it myself when ripping CDs (gracenote is very very weak) but entering it for music downloaded from peoples own sites or from official leaks is almost impossible. That information is often not available anywhere. There are a lot of useable fields in an MP3′s ID tags and you don’t really have to use them all as they’re supposed to be.
Where is today’s Herb Powers Jr.? Tagging the comments section with his opinions on the song and shouting out his girlfriend?

First artist to fill all the ID3 fields in an MP3 with useful information wins a free “my regard”.

Oh and is this comments section advocating the return of CD long-boxes? My collection of 87-91 classic rap long-boxes takes pride of place amongst… amongst… no they don’t fit amongst anything. That was the problem.

By: Learn and Master Guitar

Learn and Master Guitar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:59:14 +0000

Yeah, the more you do the better results you will get.!!

By: Universal Indie Records

Universal Indie Records — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:45:32 +0000

Interesting article.. you’ve provided me with a lot to think about! though some of this I’ve been working on as well…

TJR said “Years ago, I thought to myself…..If I was big famous music star, I could afford to do just that. Release my CD w’ record album packaging. I’d make sure it had a gatefold cover with cool artwork and a lyrics booklet with even more artwork.”

With my next release i’m including a PDF of the cd artwork but I’m not sticking to the standard cd cover size. WHy should I? Since there’s no physical cd you’re not limited to cd booklet sizes. Why not do a vinyl sized PDF of the album cover?

I’ve also been toying with creating a “Cd booklet” use flash flip technology ( http://page-flip.com/ )where you’ll actually be able to turn the pages.

By: The Value of Records « Music Worth Buying

The Value of Records « Music Worth Buying — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:09:11 +0000

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