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
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