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Old 08-01-2017, 03:29 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Here's a question though, what about music I have stored on my hard drive, in a file... that is titled whatever the album is called.... the songs in order of their appearance on vinyl... with some sort of image file of the album cover... is that an album?
Yes. My iTunes and Google Music databases are loaded with hundreds of albums. Again, I'm just trying to create debate. It's not a black and white thing at all.
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Which is why we need a new word.
No, we really don't. You're makin' us oldsters look bad.
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Here's a question though, what about music I have stored on my hard drive, in a file... that is titled whatever the album is called.... the songs in order of their appearance on vinyl... with some sort of image file of the album cover... is that an album?
Of course not: it's a computer folder with digital musical files in it, or for short, a CFDMF!
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Old 08-01-2017, 03:31 PM   #23 (permalink)
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You know damn well this is ****ing retarded, Chula.
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Old 08-01-2017, 03:31 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Which is why we need a new word.
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Frowny, I'll stop leaning on my influences as soon as you put out something melodic, with no extraneous noise or dissonance.
I'd post 20ish songs here but you have a very low bar for what's considered dissonant, so I'll just post something that came out yesterday: https://jesusthecarpenter.bandcamp.com/track/kerensa-2 Anyways, probably not a good idea to base your own music off of an artist you don't like .

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I wouldn't use the term "released" though. That makes it sound like I've had some sort of contract or something. But I will say that I've "uploaded an album I just made".
Great point.
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What did you say?
countless posts about hugely accessible and melodic songs he's made
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Yeah that's untrue. I would say "I got this album on CD". Of course I would at the time never say "I got this album on vinyl" cos that was all we had. But I still called them albums, and alternately CDs, usually to differentiate between the at the time slowly-growing digital part of my collection and the old analogue one.
That's really it right there. It's the content that makes it an album, not the physical form.
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Old 08-01-2017, 03:39 PM   #28 (permalink)
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so is this an album

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That's really it right there. It's the content that makes it an album, not the physical form.
This right here. The idea of creating a class system for the medium in which stored on or projected on/with is ridiculous. It'd be like accrediting the wall in which a film is played on.
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so is this an album
It's plastic and paper, I'm not sure what else?

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This right here. The idea of creating a class system for the medium in which stored on or projected on/with is ridiculous. It'd be like accrediting the wall in which a film is played on.
Yeah I agree with that. The physical medium is just a means to an end. In order to test the idea, something where the content is tied to the physical medium might be statues and artful pottery. But the difference between those and music is that they are exactly about shaping a physical mass, music isn't.
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