I think the term "album" has been used figuratively ever since we moved beyond the (literal) multipocket album of 78 rpm records, like the one depicted here:
'Toscanini recording of Haydn Symphony on Discogs' (https://www.discogs.com/Haydn-Philharmonic-Symphony-Orchestra-New-York-Arturo-Toscanini-Symphonie-D-Dur-The-Clock-Symphony/release/12299761) How else could you package a recording of something that was too long to fit on an individual or "single" record? With an LP, all that could go on just one disc. To put it in more contemporary terms, an LP was a VIRTUAL album. There's no reason a cassette or 8-track tape cartridge couldn't be considered an album, too, but by the late sixties we were accustomed to equating "album" with "LP". I wonder if that was true when people (a few people, anyway) were buying albums on reel-to-reel tape. EPs never caught on in the US, but I had a few in my collection. We couldn't understand why some of the Beatles' recordings, like Magical Mystery Tour, were released first on EP. As far as I'm concerned, an album is still an album, even if it's a collection of files or a stream. LMS 8 nightly; 3 Squeezelite players connected by powerline ethernet; 5 wireless players connected via Airplay Bridge; 1 SqueezeAmp player no high-end or esoteric audio gear 1 Squeezebox Radio (upgraded UE Smart Radio) now mostly retired ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112330 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
