Hi Tom, Richard, and Others, I listen to a lot of classical music, and these labels typically had/have extensive liner notes for their CDs. It turns out that for some of these titles you can download the PDF digital booklets from the label's web site. Here's an example: I have an old CD recording of Christopher Herrick playing Back Toccata and Fugues on the organ from a Hyperion recording. Hyperion is one of the classical record labels that offers PDF digital booklets for their music. Now, it's easiest if I know the CD of the recording, which in this case is CDA66434, and type that into the search box, but in general I may not know that. So, I'll type in something like "Herrick Bach Toccata and Fugues" and press return on my computer, since I'd usually do this on my Mac. Then, I'd navigate to "Albums" and find the two albums listed there. Mine is the second, older one, so I'd select its web page: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA66434
On the album web page, I'd navigate to the link for "Digital booklet (PDF)" and download the booklet. There's an AppleScript on the AppleScripts for iTunes site called PDF Adder: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=pdfadder This will let me use the same tags to add the PDF booklet to my iTunes library. As for why record stores don't provide more digital booklets under iTunes, read this article: http://www.mcelhearn.com/why-record-labels-dont-provide-more-digital-booklets-on-the-itunes-store/ Basically, Apple imposes a specific format for digital booklets. Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther On Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 3:09:37 PM UTC-10, Richard Turner wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > A few, and I really mean a few, albums come with a PDF booklet when you > buy them through iTunes Store. They have some of what you are talking > about. I'm not sure they have everything the old liner notes used to have, > or if liner notes are just not as complete as they used to be. > The Book of Mormon CD has a booklet. Many of the songs are shown as > "explicit," which is true. > Holly Happy Days, a Christmas album by the Indigo Girls came with a > digital booklet. They are accessible and will download with the album, but > you may have to open then in iBooks to get them to show up where you can > read them. > > HTH, > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf Of Tom Lange > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 4:00 PM > To: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Subject: Liner Notes > > > > Hi all, > I use Apple Music on my iPhone a lot and have amassed a huge library > including rock, classical, jazz, country, all kinds of good stuff. It's a > fairly eclectic collection. When I open an album to play it, I notice a > button which will show the artwork for the album, which, I presume, > includes cover art and the like. Way, way back when, when I used to buy > vinyl albums and CD's, I used to sit down with an Optacon and read the > liner notes that came with the album or CD, which was cool because I could > look at such things as the personnel on the various tracks and even what > kind of musical gear was used, et cetera. Is there a way to get that kind > of information through Apple Music? I would absolutely love to get access > to liner notes if possible. Any ideas? Thanks. > Tom > Sent from my iPhone 7 > > > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
