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| jimscottjr |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 10:39:45 AM
Does anyone else have the problem that I do?
I usually purchase slack key mp3's (amazon, iTunes etc). However, when I purchase the digital downloads -- no liner notes. I frequently like to see what tuning a mele uses. I'm getting better at guessing, but still ...
Is the solution to start purchasing the actual CD? Seems kind of like going backwards, but if that's what it takes ...
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| slipry1 |
Posted - 03/03/2011 : 09:04:36 AM
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Originally posted by rendesvous1840
"....a certain age..." Hey, I resemble that remark! My main goal in life is to live too long to die young.
Unko Paul
It's too late, Paul! (as one old fogey to another). I'm too old to be the world's oldest teenager, so now I'm the world's oldest twenty something.When sked why I play so many instruments in so many geenres, I say "Well, I couldn't decide what to play when I grew up, so I decided not to grow up."
Also, Paul, check out my picture on Banjo Hangout. I got it from my pal, Steve Parker, and it's going on my right arm as a retirement present to myself. |
| rendesvous1840 |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 6:36:17 PM
"....a certain age..." Hey, I resemble that remark! My main goal in life is to live too long to die young.
Unko Paul |
| Retro |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 6:24:49 PM
One of the things I most enjoy in historical releases from labels such as Hula & Hana-Ola is when they do their research and they share it with us in detailed liner booklets - yay to those folks! |
| wcerto |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 4:54:28 PM
Jim, sometimes if you check the artists' web sites, they will have liner notes available for download. that however, does vary greatly from artist to artist.
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| jimscottjr |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 1:43:00 PM
heh - I'm waaaaaay past the certain age, as you so eloquently put it. My tag of "Old Haole" is quite accurate. But, since I'm an electronics junkie, seemed logical at the time. I collected most of my library before I was interested in playing.
Oh well, I may have to purchase some of it again. Thanks for your input. |
| thumbstruck |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 1:28:23 PM
Those of us of "a certain age" are still tactile when it comes to purchasing things. We like to look and feel the items. With music, liner notes and "the who played what" are indespensible parts of the musical experience. The more one knows, the more one can appreciate.
I refer to this as "being an informed consumer". |
| Hookani |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 12:57:13 PM
I rarely download music unless it's unavailable in any other form because I still like to see the liner notes and also like to have a physical copy of it. In reading a music recording magazine there is another thing that is missing with MP3 downloads and that is all the recording credits that go along with the recording such as who the engineer is, who the producer is, etc. That can be easily rectified because you can tag the MP3 with that info but as of yet no one does. |
| rendesvous1840 |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 12:49:40 PM
I tried once to download a song from some online store, but my computer didn't seem to know how. I don't really understand, as the boiler was full of water, and the firebox was full of coal, and a good fire was burning. Musta been some clinkers in my pan, I guess. I only tried that time because the album was out of print. I don't do downloads if Mele.com, County Sales or The Field Recorders Collective can sell me a CD. I don't like to buy an album without liner notes, the more detailed they are, the more I like them.
Unko Paul |
| wcerto |
Posted - 03/02/2011 : 11:39:54 AM
We need, need, need the liner notes.
Here is Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner Puakea Nogelmeier's take on liner notes in the digital age:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jvV4b4HMKk |
