Digitized Liner Notes

[KittBash 361]

These days I'm sure a lot of us are used to using an MP3 player as our main music device. I know I do as I'm not up to 3 iPods in the house. I occurs to me that I never get to read the liner notes from my favorite CD's anymore.. I remember when I was in High School when the RCA Star Wars sets came out I always carried the cds with me and a discman and had the liner notes with me all the time.

Now with Ipods at least we have the option of placing text in the tags of our MP3's in the meta tags for Lyrics... I occurred to me that this is the perfect place to put track analysis so I did some digging and found where people have posted the Star Wars Liner notes but I was wondering if others had found the liner notes to some of their favorite releases and if so where... I know I started typing out the liner notes from the DCC Raiders release but always wondered if I was doing it in vein because someone already had it posted online somewhere....

Thoughts? Know of any place to find liner notes online?

[Morn 8]

Great idea, there should be no need to do without liner notes in the mp3 age.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

iTunes has digital booklets with CD purchases, I always thought that included whatever came in the actual booklet if you were to buy the CD.

[Dean1700 5]

iTunes has digital booklets with CD purchases, I always thought that included whatever came in the actual booklet if you were to buy the CD.

My question is.........Digitized or digitalized?

Digitalized sounds much better. Is there a difference?

[Koray Savas 2,260]

iTunes has digital booklets with CD purchases, I always thought that included whatever came in the actual booklet if you were to buy the CD.

My question is.........Digitized or digitalized?

Digitalized sounds much better. Is there a difference?

I have no idea.

[KittBash 361]

iTunes has digital booklets with CD purchases, I always thought that included whatever came in the actual booklet if you were to buy the CD.

Yeah it's Great that Itunes has started to include those with some of their albums... only problem is unless you have an iphone or an iPod touch that can read pdf files and these still need to be transfered to your player seperate from your collection as you either need a special app or need to email yourself the pdf so even then unless you have one of those 2 players your out of luck! Where as all the rest of the iPod family that have screens can access all the tagging information placed in iTunes... now I'm not sure how other screened MP3 players work but I know I would like to have the track by track analysis that has been painstakingly written for these albums with me when I'm sitting waiting somewhere listening to my player...

To that end I'm about 3/4 of the way through copying the liner notes from the DCC Raiders. and have been thinking of taking the score analysis that is on this site for the other Indy's and making "liner notes" out of them as well.

[ymenard 68]

The next step is Out-of-Print scores and soundtracks in digital format.... In these ages, there shouldn't even need for stuff like the FSM Collector's Club. The only speculation it does, is for collectors. Now everybody could have access to these scores.

[Ollie 1,375]

In all honesty if I want to read the liner notes I'll just pull the CD of the shelf and read them.

I'm not going worry about loading them onto my iPod.

[Williamsfan301 12]

Liner notes are the unintended victims of the MP3 revolution. Those were and are such a great source of information for research and a general deeper understanding of what you are listening too. Its a shame to see them going the way of the 8 track

[Koray Savas 2,260]

The next step is Out-of-Print scores and soundtracks in digital format.... In these ages, there shouldn't even need for stuff like the FSM Collector's Club. The only speculation it does, is for collectors. Now everybody could have access to these scores.

There are sites out there that sell OOP, OST, and bootleg scores for a couple bucks.

[KittBash 361]

In all honesty if I want to read the liner notes I'll just pull the CD of the shelf and read them.

I'm not going worry about loading them onto my iPod.

That is a valid point, When I'm home I just do that too (in fact I prefer to have the real thing) but I spend quite a bit of time waiting in places with my iPod (which I bought so I wouldn't have to carry cd's around) so that's what makes this idea an interesting one to me.

J Moss

[Ollie 1,375]

Oh it's a good idea for those who want to do it.

[ymenard 68]

The next step is Out-of-Print scores and soundtracks in digital format.... In these ages, there shouldn't even need for stuff like the FSM Collector's Club. The only speculation it does, is for collectors. Now everybody could have access to these scores.

There are sites out there that sell OOP, OST, and bootleg scores for a couple bucks.

Yeah but I'd rather wait for proper stuff by FSM, Intrada, etc... Just imagine if they opened up their archives, the same way that Naxos is opening their catalogue... I mean seriously those low-run CD pressing only benefit a couple of guys who will speculate later on a poor collectionner who thinks this release is worth more than it really is. Seriously, there is no music that is worth as much a some stuff you get on Ebay if you think about it. Those companies would benefit a lot from offering lossless versions of their OOP pressings.

It's the only way to go anyway if they want to be kept alive. All the small music companies are struggling these days as much as the big ones too. Naxos understood that. But the smaller ones have less cashflow to survive a couple more years and hope that "something else" happens.