CD’s stand for Cool Delivery or something equally hip
Rob Manuel, in praise of CDs:
CDs don’t pause between tracks like your iPod/Spotify. This matters on albums that are meant to run together. Say Dark Side of the Moon. These records are broken by this [MP3] tech. If I was Roger Waters I’d take a shit in Apple’s office and refuse to stop shitting until this was fixed.
There are some more sensible reasons as well, but as a Mike Oldfield fan, I love this one. Of course Oldfield got around this by making Amarok just one track…
There’s actually a setting in iTunes that will make sure there are NO gaps between tracks in, say, live albums.
Which reminds me to make sure I have my Mike Oldfield stuff on the iPhone….
I’ll just be an old man and wave “various phones and players and things” that don’t do gapless on the move :-)
If you like Mike Oldfield, you’ll love a little-known Mallorcan artist called José Manuel Guerra.
His music is available on Jamendo, or Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/josemanuel
He teamed up with Onofre Garcías to produce a truly Oldfield-like album, Migrations. I can’t find a website for it, so here’s an iTunes link:
http://itunes.apple.com/es/artist/onofre-garcias/id439491663#
or a Spotify link:
http://open.spotify.com/album/4R07awAeHooQ1Fp26PVrNW
And a youtube “Making of” video with english subs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlKPRH4e5X8
I note Onofre Garcías has basically put up the split tracks, followed by the whole piece of music as one track, to get round the gaps problem.
Moof, no Zune links? Pah… found it for my Zune Pass and have it cued up for the weekend!
I don’t have a Zune. I’m off Nokia for the time being…