The size and speed of the iPad raise the possibility of using it to display extended programme notes as well as displaying good quality artwork, at full length and size. If iPeng for iPad could do this, enabling access to information such as libretti, synopses or other extended texts either reading text embedded in the files/tags, or from other sources on the server's LAN or online through associated URLs, it would make a killer app if ever there was one for those listening to classical music, and for a good many other than classical music lovers too.
If one were feeling nostalgic, one might be tempted to say that it would be facilitating something very like a return to the heyday of the LP. In fact, looking at it entirely without sentiment, it would be much, much better, given the ability of the Touch to play high res music files because it would combine almost all the things people love about LPs with all the advantages of the best in current digital music reproduction. That's a pretty potent way forward for the whole SB platform, but also for digital music in its entirety. On 14 Mar 2010, at 14:11, fphredd wrote: > > 808;524970 Wrote: >> The one thing I miss with all my CD's in boxes is looking through the >> inlay card, although it's great having thousands of tracks on a hard >> drive I forget what it's like to pick up CD and become engrossed in the >> message/artwork being portrayed by the artist. >> >> I think that's whats going to make me upgrade to a tablet/pad/whatever, >> music just seems to be 'lost' with using the original squeezebox/remote. >> Could be me being sentimental though ! > > I was thinking the other day how I miss double album covers...I must be > older than you... :-) > > > -- > fphredd > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > fphredd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33133 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
