Comments on: Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?

By: Can Tablets Resurrect the Album? One Start-up Hopes So: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:15:34 +0000

[...] As I wrote about before with Callaway Digital Arts, tablets are opening up opportunities to create new publishing experiences that aren’t just e-books, but instead are dynamic applications leveraging audio, animation, pictures and text and marrying them with engaging touch-driven interfaces. Again, Apple tried something like this before with iTunes LP, but there were two problems: it was tied to both iTunes and a computer and it didn’t provide the same type of engagement that a touch-screen experience provides. That’s probably one of the reasons it hasn’t caught on with consumers or labels. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:50:11 +0000

The iTunes LP is nothing compared to ScatterTunes V-Album (www.getvalbum.com), which launched months before iTunes LP and has patents pending. The ScatterTunes V-Albums adds much more to the user’s experience, along with providing complete music compatibility to iTunes, with their iTunes Auto Import function. Digital Booklets, full Artist Merchandise Stores, Lyrics, Photos, Videos, live Artist Twitter feeds, and much more, are all provide with in these unique V-Albums. Additionally, unique content, like the digital, high resolution photos of the handwritten original lyrics to many of Jimi Hendrix’s songs on the Jimi Hendrix V-Albums, really bring you into the artist’s world.

Also, ScatterTunes does not charge the artists and record labels anything for the production of these V-Albums, and artists like Sheryl Crow, are issuing their latest releases in V-Album formats and promoting them on their websites (http://www.sherylcrow.com/).

By: dan tyler

dan tyler — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:51:16 +0000

a lot of talk about how LP will be so great on iPad, but it seems it doesn't actually support LP !? what a waste of an opportunity. they really did just make a big fat ipod touch!

By: ThaTrunk.com

ThaTrunk.com — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:07:48 +0000

Everyone here has great comments and I tend to agree with most, Apple didn’t kill the record industry, the record industry did. Bundling strategy is done and they are trying to find as many ways as possible to recapture that marketing strategy. Like AK said, there is one sure fire way of doing it, make great albums!

See more my article called “Piracy? Could You Cry Wolf a Little Louder Please? If you look at the number of digital singles sold and compare that to the number of would be albums sold at a 1 to 2 songs per album rate, you see that music consumption hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s just that consumers aren’t paying $5-7 for the 2 songs they like per album on average.

HFJ

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:20:24 +0000

The problems are promotion and selection. I JUST FOUND OUT about this. I go into iTunes several times a week, but never noticed the tiny link “iTunes LP” on the music page. I only found out because I was watching videos about Apple TV on You Tube since I’m buying one, and one (yes, only one) of the videos showed LP on the Apple TV. I was very excited about LP after seeing how much more I could get out of my albums, especially on the big screen – until I looked at the selection. The LPs are cool enough I’m willing to shell out for a couple even though I wouldn’t have otherwise bought these albums, but COME ON if they really want people to buy these they need to make more artists available. How many people don’t buy it only because none of that handful of artists appeal to them? They need to PROMOTE LP, especially with the iPad now out, and they need to get more bands on board! When you’re playing music on a big screen it’s nice to have more to look at than one static album cover and the name of the song!

By: Lala to Go the Way of the Dodo

Lala to Go the Way of the Dodo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:49:47 +0000

[...] Apple would make new concessions to the labels, as it did last year when variable pricing, DRM and bundling formats were in [...]

By: thrum

thrum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:51:47 +0000

$60,000 for what is basically a glorified website – no wonder they’re losing money on it. Whoever the genius was that approved spending that kind of money – give me a call, I’ll do it for half that and still make a hefty profit. I would love to see it take off as it’s a natural extension of what I do but people have been down this road before with Enhanced CDs, they didn’t pay for it then and they probably won’t now.

By: iTunes no consigue revivir los LPs | Mactuality

iTunes no consigue revivir los LPs | Mactuality — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:49:01 +0000

[...] la tendencia generalizada de compras aisladas de singles. Sin embargo, según el último estudio de Giga OM, las ventas no han sido para nada significativas y el número de artistas interesados en participar [...]

By: slimjim

slimjim — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:01:33 +0000

very good points made above about how the music labels killed the single to rake in profits with ever escalating prices of CD albums.

Steve Knopper wrote an excellent book (Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age) on the whole history of how the music companys' greed almost destroyed them until Apple came along.

From the Amazon blurb: "Instead of embracing the new medium, the record companies insisted on clinging to the old model of forcing buyers to pay $18.95 for a CD just to get the one or two songs they really wanted"

By: François Lafrenière

François Lafrenière — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:30:45 +0000

The iTunes LP format is redundant. Even using the default interface, iTunes, iPods and the Apple TV make it easy to purchase and listen to full albums, and they're even pretty good about putting album art forward. Not to mention a good web site is probably the better place to provide videos, liner notes and other extras to begin with. So why pay a premium?