Great Tunes, but Where's the Cover

"Album art decreased in size years ago in the move from vinyl records to CD's. But now, with downloadable music on the Internet, is such art headed for obsolescence?" I guess I'm not the only one who will miss album art. MP3s themselves can contain text and it would take only a little bit of twiddling of MP3 player software to make it possible to display musician and producer credits, liner notes, lyrics, and what have you. But the artwork, which stands for the collection of songs, may not survive when the primary distribution mechanism is the song not the CD.

http://nytimes.com/2003/11/06/technology/circuits/06albu.html
(New York Times, November 6, 2003)

Posted by Tom on November 08, 2003