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Now Here's an Idea...
You know how every couple of years a new fangled, super-cool computer watchamacallit comes out? If it's not a new operating system altogether, it's a processing chip, super-speed drive, gaming control pads, video cards, audio chips... you get my drift. Well, how often are the "buggy" systems actually improved upon? The minute a problem is fixed, a new set of them crops up in the new system.
Case in point: Windows. (You all knew it was coming, right?) I love Windows Me in comparison to Windows 95, but it has done nothing but annoy me since my mom got it. Then again, she did buy it via the Home Shopping Network... ^^;;
In any case, I am listening to Pink's M!zzundaztood. When I first listened to a CD on this computer here, I thought the ambiances were so neat. But enhanced CDs tend to start playing up immediately, and when you only want to listen to the music, well... >_< So for starters, how would it be if you could *have* the option of listening to the CD, or using the enhanced version, if it was an option?
Next, and this would be up to the recording artists and labels, but *I* think would be good for their sales-- on the CDs, play music videos in the media players. All OSs have media players now that support video... so why not embed music videos into them? If you didn't want to watch the videos, you could minimize the player, and you'd only hear the music. If an artist didn't have a video for every track, still images of the artist or ambiances default on the computer could be shown.
And how many times have you bought a CD, but the slip cover hasn't had lyrics? Sure, for some artists, it's easy as heck to go to their site and get lyrics, but for some, it's harder than it sounds. So why not have the lyrics (for ALL the tracks) on the CD? They could be embedded in the music videos, part of an enhanced CD, or could be DOCs, TXTs... or maybe, just MAYBE, all artists could start putting the lyrics IN the slip covers...?
Windows Media Player, when online, automatically looks up the artist, and provides all the track information-- the title of the song, the artist, the album... it's helpful. If you copied the music from a CD and it's in WMA or WMV format, you have the option of having the license on or not. That means that if the artist has specified how many times someone can listen to their music in MP3 or WMA format, if you OWN the CD, you just specify so, and the restrictions never happen.
Now it's perfectly possible I'm dreaming-- I'm just an inexperienced techie compared to the people who WORK in the biz... but tell me, how many of you wouldn't like a few simple extra features with your comp every now and then that didn't cost an arm and a head?
Case in point: Windows. (You all knew it was coming, right?) I love Windows Me in comparison to Windows 95, but it has done nothing but annoy me since my mom got it. Then again, she did buy it via the Home Shopping Network... ^^;;
In any case, I am listening to Pink's M!zzundaztood. When I first listened to a CD on this computer here, I thought the ambiances were so neat. But enhanced CDs tend to start playing up immediately, and when you only want to listen to the music, well... >_< So for starters, how would it be if you could *have* the option of listening to the CD, or using the enhanced version, if it was an option?
Next, and this would be up to the recording artists and labels, but *I* think would be good for their sales-- on the CDs, play music videos in the media players. All OSs have media players now that support video... so why not embed music videos into them? If you didn't want to watch the videos, you could minimize the player, and you'd only hear the music. If an artist didn't have a video for every track, still images of the artist or ambiances default on the computer could be shown.
And how many times have you bought a CD, but the slip cover hasn't had lyrics? Sure, for some artists, it's easy as heck to go to their site and get lyrics, but for some, it's harder than it sounds. So why not have the lyrics (for ALL the tracks) on the CD? They could be embedded in the music videos, part of an enhanced CD, or could be DOCs, TXTs... or maybe, just MAYBE, all artists could start putting the lyrics IN the slip covers...?
Windows Media Player, when online, automatically looks up the artist, and provides all the track information-- the title of the song, the artist, the album... it's helpful. If you copied the music from a CD and it's in WMA or WMV format, you have the option of having the license on or not. That means that if the artist has specified how many times someone can listen to their music in MP3 or WMA format, if you OWN the CD, you just specify so, and the restrictions never happen.
Now it's perfectly possible I'm dreaming-- I'm just an inexperienced techie compared to the people who WORK in the biz... but tell me, how many of you wouldn't like a few simple extra features with your comp every now and then that didn't cost an arm and a head?