RobbH wrote: > 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.
good point re the origin of album. I'd forgotten seeing some of these multiple 78s in "books". And I'm with you. And "album" is (most of the time) a collection of songs that is an artistic statement of the artist, independent of medium. *Home:* VBA 4TB (2.5) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.1>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet, Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>LMS 7.9.3>Squeezelite *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP4.0, hifiberry Dac+Pro, 4TB USB (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone11 & iPadAir2 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) *Files:* ripping: dbpa > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112330 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
