The iTunes Store and its digital brethren have helped clear the way for the "good enough" society. Those smartphone photos? Not as good as a digital camera's but good enough. That netbook? Not as powerful as a laptop but good enough. Convenience almost always wins. As Wired's Robert Capps wrote, "Having it here and now is more important than having it perfect. It killed album art. This week, Storm Thorgerson died.
You probably don't know his name, but you know his work: Thorgerson was a graphic artist who designed album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and 10cc, among many others. You may also have seen Thorgerson's shrunken covers on iTunes, where they have no more heft than an app icon. The song is the thing in the iTunes world, and that means there's less importance for the kind of artwork Thorgerson did -- which, in its byinch LP album cover form, was sometimes more impressive than the music it housed.
Yes, iTunes offers booklets, images, videos and movies, but you can't frame those and hang them on a dorm room wall Until July , apps were just something you ate before the main course. Then came the App Store, a specialty shop inside the larger iTunes department store, and Apple's iconic "There's an app for that" campaign. Soon, every early adopter was waving around their iPhone, boasting about all the apps they'd loaded onto it and slinging virtual birds at virtual pigs.
The iPad only accelerated this trend. In January, Apple announced that more than 40 billion apps had been downloaded from its online store. The music industry hated it. Much to the chagrin of the Recording Industry Association of America, internet users quickly caught on to digital music as a free alternative to paying for albums.
In fear of declining album sales, record labels filed lawsuit after lawsuit against online services Napster and MP3. Clearly, for the recording industry, change wasn't easy.
In stepped Steve Jobs. The Apple CEO harbored a vision in of an online music store hosted by Apple that would be easy to use, complete in selection and reliable in performance. These factors, Jobs thought, would be enough to convince customers to pay for something they could otherwise obtain for free illegally. The store, then, would enable record labels to compete with pirates rather than pursue a futile attempt to destroy them. The classic rags-to-riches story got a macho spin in the Oscar-winning Rocky, which was written by its star, Sylvester Stallone, and began filming on January 9, This incident was the first time shots were exchanged between North and South, although it did not trigger the Civil Although little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries.
Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Art, Literature, and Film History. World War II. Sign Up. Apple also releases a 'Single of the Week' in both English and sometimes Spanish and usually a 'Discovery Download' on Tuesdays, which are available for free for one week. Perhaps the most notable case of music being removed is of Frank Zappa; a significant portion of his music was added to the iTunes store in August and then in August removed.
Downloaded songs come with song information name, artist, album already filled out, though iTunes provides a free service by Gracenote to do this for songs not purchased from the store, although they must be imported with iTunes. Songs that have an entry in the iTunes Store also come with album artwork. As of the release of iTunes 7, the artwork can be obtained for songs not purchased from the store for free if the user has an iTunes Store account.
Purchased songs do not come with lyrics already typed in to the application's window for them; nor does iTunes provide a service for acquiring the missing lyrics. Some songs are available from the store by "Album Only," meaning the song can only be acquired through the purchase of the entire album, whereas most songs can be downloaded separately from the album they belong to. Soundtracks often have many "Album Only" tracks.
Movie soundtracks normally include songs owned by many different labels, making licensing more complex. The easiest way around this is for the user to search for the artist and find the particular song s they want on another release, which is sometimes available without having to purchase an entire album.
When entering the U. Each grouping of music is essentially a pre-made playlist. The songs in the playlist are all listed in order of their importance, starting with the artist's most well-known song. These playlists usually contain either 45 or 75 songs equally distributed in three sections: The Basics the biggest, best, and most important songs , Next Steps usually composed of popular songs just beyond the hits and Deep Cuts under-appreciated songs.
Occasionally, specific Artist Essentials do not have a Deep Cuts section. This usually depends on how many releases the artist has completed over the years.
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