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iTunes add-on idea
Posted by gastronaut on 30 October 2011 - 9:49pm.
It's nice having the record sleeve to look at while playing music in iTunes, especially a fabulous 70s creation. But what I really want (and would pay for) is an app/add-on/thingy that displays an image of the vinyl itself with its label, spinning round at 33 or 45 or 78, as appropriate, as I listen. I'm not obsessive enough to want a digital 'needle' in exactly the right place on the LP, but I would just like to watch the record turn. It's nostalgia, but it's also quite geeky and pleasing. I suppose the problem is it would need a database of images of actual records, and who's going to do that?
Am I mad? Does this exist already?
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You're not mad
I don't know why record companies don't bundle a bit more visual content in with mp3s. I know you can get PDF booklets and so forth, but it would be nice to have sleeve notes that pop up or the lyrics or whatever. I'm fine with digital downloads but I do find I don't know anything about the artist I'm listening to..I don't know what label it's on, who played what. There is all this music on my hard drive with no contextual information around it other than a single jpeg for the 'sleeve'. And yes a view rotating vinyl option in iTunes would be great!
I'm glad it's not just me
As much as I love iTunes, it's only very rarely that I discover that the artist has included a PDF booklet.
Why more of them can't do this, I don't know. Surely it can't cost that much to add it to the download files if they've already produced artwork for the retail CD.
Do a search for 'Vinyl'
on the app store. There's quite a few apps that do this. There's even one that virtually scatters the lp covers on the floor.
Vinyl love....
Is the one I use, having done a little research it was the closest one to my need to recreate the sight and sound of a real album playing. You lift and place the stylus on the album and can even put finger on the vinyl which slows down the track playings ( or do that new fangled scratching thing) You even get the needle on the record in between tracks.
Ah yes but
I knew that someone must have come up with something, and I thank you kindly tagbarett and MrSib. But I think these are only for iPad or iPhone, neither of which I own or want really. I've only got a boring old MacBook and I can't find the equivalent on the MacOS AppStore. Here's me hankering after the old vinyl listening experience, and now I'm wondering - doesn't anyone even use computers any more?