> Even in his day, I think Mozart had a publisher. And his music wouldn't have
> survived if it hadn't been written down on paper.
Still, his music was legitimately "released" and later embraced by the public
all without the assistance of "cover art" which was my point. To feel a sense
of illegitimacy about the state of one's music because it has no associated
cover art is a result of what man has done with Edison's original invention
and idea. As far as I know, such thoughts didn't exist before the existence
of recorded music. Now we're venturing into a brave new world where music
exists as nothing more than a common binary file on a webserver somewhere
- if such a stateless existence is good enough for the music why is not also
good enough for its associated graphical artwork? Let the artwork of the
website be the "cover art" for the music found there.
If you have to have it on paper you can simply print it out.
Perhaps even have a webpage with artwork surrounded by dashed-lines
where the user is supposed to print it and then cut it out and insert
it into a jewel-box on their own. Let them create their own cover art
from the "officially authorised" graphics. Etc. Nevertheless, the
music still exists independently of all of that - just as
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" does regardless of what's on the cover of the
CD you buy it on. This is all very commonplace stuff in the classical
music world. Graphics really don't seem to be very important there.
Just slap a picture of the composer on the front with a
cursive font for displaying the title - add a little fine print and
voila!
Myke
