Comments on: Apple pledges open iTunes LP http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/13/apple-pledges-open-itunes-lp/ The only tech you need Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: charli http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/13/apple-pledges-open-itunes-lp/comment-page-1/#comment-37808 charli Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:06:48 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=44476#comment-37808 James you would be the artist in question so yeah, you have all that stuff. James you would be the artist in question so yeah, you have all that stuff.

]]> By: charli http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/13/apple-pledges-open-itunes-lp/comment-page-/#comment-37805 charli Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:04:34 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=44476#comment-37805 chill major folks. this really isn't the news that folks think it is. Apple isn't giving into the indies and were not holding the tech for only the majors. Steve Jobs said in the keynote when he announced the format that the labels would be making these LPs themselves. IE, it was always the intention of 'opening up' the format. But with any new item you need a full test run. You need to make sure that it is going to work and you don't want to waste the time and money to try to replicate every possible system in house. so you release a limited run, watch the reviews, read the feedback etc. fine tune a bit and try again if needed. Plus at the same time you can be making a sort of 'iweb for LP' so that folks that don't know how to read and decode things like javascript, css etc don't have to. they just plug in the art, the links, the tracks and boom the software makes the format for them. but again this takes time to develop and test on various systems. thus why it hasn't been released to the world (the majors were probably more than happy to be the test subjects cause they can afford some 'wasted time' that the indies can't always) BUT it was never the intention for Apple to make all of these or to only make them for the majors. As Jobs said from day one. Folks are making a mountain out of someone's mishearing what was told to them. chill major folks. this really isn’t the news that folks think it is. Apple isn’t giving into the indies and were not holding the tech for only the majors. Steve Jobs said in the keynote when he announced the format that the labels would be making these LPs themselves. IE, it was always the intention of ‘opening up’ the format. But with any new item you need a full test run. You need to make sure that it is going to work and you don’t want to waste the time and money to try to replicate every possible system in house. so you release a limited run, watch the reviews, read the feedback etc. fine tune a bit and try again if needed. Plus at the same time you can be making a sort of ‘iweb for LP’ so that folks that don’t know how to read and decode things like javascript, css etc don’t have to. they just plug in the art, the links, the tracks and boom the software makes the format for them. but again this takes time to develop and test on various systems. thus why it hasn’t been released to the world (the majors were probably more than happy to be the test subjects cause they can afford some ‘wasted time’ that the indies can’t always)

BUT it was never the intention for Apple to make all of these or to only make them for the majors. As Jobs said from day one. Folks are making a mountain out of someone’s mishearing what was told to them.

]]> By: James Holland http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/13/apple-pledges-open-itunes-lp/comment-page-1/#comment-37655 James Holland Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:02:58 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=44476#comment-37655 You want to create your own?! Do you have access to all the limited edition / previously unreleased material that goes into an iTunes LP then? Surely that's the point.... You want to create your own?! Do you have access to all the limited edition / previously unreleased material that goes into an iTunes LP then? Surely that’s the point….

]]> By: Doug http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/13/apple-pledges-open-itunes-lp/comment-page-1/#comment-37458 Doug Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:40:39 +0000 http://www.electricpig.co.uk/?p=44476#comment-37458 These things are easy enough to create. Check out the Tuesday Spoils iTunes LP floating around to get an idea These things are easy enough to create. Check out the Tuesday Spoils iTunes LP floating around to get an idea

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