What’s so special about tags?
iBiquity and iTunes have figured out a new way for us to buy music over HD Radio. Personally I don’t know why they couldn’t have done this 5 years ago.
But now that’s it’s here why can’t the music industry figure out a way to embed the lyrics and liner notes in that file too? I don’t care about the packaging any more. All I want is the info to match what I’m listening too.
The generation is coming that won’t even care about the album art. I lost interest in that when I switch from LP’s to CD’s. Heck the art was so small what was the point? Now they put it on a 2 inch screen.
Really at this point I just want the lyrics so I can figure out what they are actually singing and not some best guess because I’m to old to know what all the kids are saying these days.
“HD Hypocrisy”
“Here’s a few more reasons why only iBiquity and a few clueless radio group heads could make a big thing out of HD radio tagging… The very damn radio stations that broadcast in HD offer no programming worth listening to. HD Radio is a virtual sewer of formats owners don’t want on their terrestrial frequencies and other assorted garbage that no one sane would listen to — let alone spend money for new radios — tagging or not.”
http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/hd-hypocrisy.html
“And the good ideas keep on coming…”
“So let me understand this… HD radio has been reduced to being a storefront for iTunes? So I listen to my HD radio, tag the songs I like, download them to my iPod, and listen to my iPod rather than my HD radio, right?”
http://www.hear2.com/2007/09/and-the-good-id.html#comments