Well, I guess albums could be anything nowadays, I've seen cds that have like 24 tracks or more, but each song averages around 3 mins or so, and I have symphony cds with 4 tracks (movements) and they last like 30+minutes... My issue when putting the form together and writing out the programming aspect is that do they stil consider 3 or 4 tracks an album, because if you're submitting an album, then we have to show the sections that correspond to the album, such as album artist, title, so on and so forth. But if they just want to submit a few tracks that aren't particularly an album, then they don't need to worry about the album stuff I guess.
Regards, D!J!X! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Smart Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:43 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Jsonar] To You, How Many Tracks Make an Album? hi folks. I'm probably over-thinking this one, but how many tracks do people consider to be an album of music? Or, do you think of the collective noun album more in terms of overall duration, say 45-50 minutes plus, and that might consist of anything from a long track, or many many short tracks? In putting together my Website for audio mastering, part of what the client specifies when they fill out a form about their music is the number of tracks they need mastered. I'm thinking the following choices cover most possibilities: 1. Single CD-length album, 2. 1-9 individual tracks 3. Other (to be discussed later) My pricing is fairly simple, $20 a track or $200 for an album. So, there is some ambiguity here, since someone could specify 3 tracks, a symphony for example, which I would call an album if it added up to long enough. I can see potential arguments there, especially if someone submitted a single very long track of some sort of drone or ambient type music which could either be classed as a single track ($20) or an album ($200). Or, since so many people are moving away from physical media, towards streaming and the idea of a home music server, should I just simplify things and charge say $20 per track? That still doesn't get around the track length aspect, but it at least would limit the number of options on the form. I grew up with vinyl, cassette's and then many many CD's, so for me, the album concept is still important. But maybe it is slowly becoming anachronistic. Thoughts? Opinions? Chris _______________________________________________ Find JSonar and Sonar FAQs, articles, guides and downloads at jsonar.org. Jsonar mailing list [email protected] http://jsonar.org/mailman/listinfo/jsonar_jsonar.org _______________________________________________ Find JSonar and Sonar FAQs, articles, guides and downloads at jsonar.org. Jsonar mailing list [email protected] http://jsonar.org/mailman/listinfo/jsonar_jsonar.org
