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Remember a photo of Pink Floyd in Kew Gardens?

electric_counterpoint — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:19:55 -0800

What Pink Floyd album cover (or liner) does this image come from? My dad just visited me in London, and recalled a certain image from a Pink Floyd album when he toured Kew Gardens. We eventually hunted down the photo I linked, but he doesn't think it's the shot he remembers. The one he's looking for was also posed in front of the Victorian greenhouse, but from a wider angle, showing the band from a distance.

He thought it might have come from the montage on A Nice Pair, but I can't find a scan of the gatefold (or liner notes; I'm not sure how it was originally packaged). I'd be happy to have the album confirmed, but even happier if anyone can point me to a scan online.

fetching itunes album art in os x

willmillar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:44:31 -0800

i have a 12,000 track itunes music library in os x. some of the tracks (~10%) have album art with them, but most do not. all tracks are tagged properly, and in theory should all have album art with them. i've tried itunes built in fetcher and many third party programs for adding album art. i can't recall names of programs, but most were very poor and would crash or not work at all. i would like to fetch art all together, because i don't want to go through 12,000 songs track-by-track. any ideas? thanks! -will

Who's on the cover of Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil?

No-sword — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:49:24 -0800

Who is the woman in the foreground on the cover of Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil? There are a hojillion jazz albums that have a photograph of the artist(s) on the cover, and an awful lot that have a photograph of some model (almost invariably female) on the cover. But I can't recall any that have a photograph of the artist and a model on the cover.

So what's the deal? Was she someone in Shorter's life, or was it indeed a model and this just another example of Wayne Shorter making a unique artistic choice?

Any related musings on jazz photography, cover design, etc. welcomed too, along with illustrative counterexamples to the last sentence of my first paragraph.

Name this Grotesque surreal album art.

Count — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:47:05 -0800

Please help me track down this disturbing vinyl album cover. Reminiscent of a Raphael painting with grotesque deformed dinosaur heads and carnage. (possibly psychedelic rock?) Last year I was scrounging the bins at a record convention and stumbled upon an equally beautiful and disturbing piece of album art which I have since been unable to track down.
I don't remember the name of the band and it's a shame I never wrote it down, let alone bought the album.
The cover of the album depicts a surrealist rendition of something in the vein of this Raphael:
http://www.artunframed.com/images/artmis57/raphae21.jpg
The main difference is that the heads of people are replaced with deformed dinosaur style heads (I recall at least two pterodactyl style heads) and there is some violence and blood.
I remember there being a woman holding a severely deformed baby with an elongated mouth which curves upward. The colors were very bright in the piece as well.
I have a feeling it might be psychedelic rock (record convention types have a lot of it), but unfortunately I don't remember the name of the band at all.
I would LOVE to find more pieces by the artist of this album cover.

Is there a way i can automate the process of adding lyrics to my mp3 tags?

Chamunks — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:24:02 -0800

Is there a way i can automate the process of adding lyrics to my mp3 tags? What I want to do is be able to set a program to automatically add the lyrics to music add to my Itunes library.

These are downloaded tracks from various sources all in cd quality mp3 320kbps/VBR average bitrates of 250-320.

I chose itunes for its ability to quietly folder and volume level my music without damaging the files.

I've tried that program called the godfather but their howto's seem broken. If anyone has any ideas on how I can do this it would be great.

ps. if anyone has a howto on taking the itunes album art and applying it to the actual mp3 tag that would be wonderful. I have 10,000 or so tracks on my computer so doing this track by track would take many months of many sundays.

Help me ifgure out if I'll score brownie points by giving LP albums as art or not.

n'muakolo — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:48:59 -0800

Grateful Dead/Dylan/Phish/Johnny Cash/Hank Williams lovers. How do you feel about LP albums as art? I'm thinking it might be cool to get my bf - who is pretty intense about the Dead, Phish, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, bluegrass and jazz (sorry I can't specify more) - some LP albums that I would frame and hang on the wall as art for his music lair. He has a lot of concert-related memorabilia. I'm just wondering, though - LP album art - hot or not hot? I'd rather not ask him too many questions or I'll tip him off.

If hot, any tips on Dead, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Hank, Phish, albums that would make his little heart sing? (I do know some favorite shows/albums of his, but I'm wondering if there are albums out there that almost anyone would recognize as awesome to have on their wall. If they liked this stuff on their wall.)

The Beatles "White Album" Just Means They Were Too Busy To Do It

unixrat — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:32:05 -0800

So I'd like to start a site where people can submit/dl alternative album art for music. More inside? Yes, please. I've always hated the album art on Trip Shakespeare's Lulu and now that iTunes had that snazzy album-art viewer thing it began to drive me nuts. So, I created a different cover, one that I thought better represented the album. (All my own work - no copyright infringment, natch. But it had the band name and album name on it.)

That got me to thinking: "Wouldn't it be great if there was a site where people could share homemade album covers?" My very next thought was "Man, the RIAA would sue them into the ground." But would they?

So here's the question: "Would a homemade album art ul/dl site be legal?"

painting $

edgeways — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:15:43 -0800

Pricing making album cover art: One of the more difficult aspects in making art is pricing it to sell. My wife is a moderately succesful artist and was approached (out of the blue) by a regional band to do their next album cover. This is the first time doing this for a non-friend so things are up in the air. I am not looking for people to offer price suggestions, but if someone happens to know of a resource that talks about pricing of making art for albums I'd love to hear of it.

High quality album art?

ofthestrait — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:29:31 -0800

I need high quality album art (> 450px square), and I am willing to pay for it. Anybody know anything? Obviously the iTunes Album Art hack doesn't work and freecovers.net is unreliable, annoying, and the images are sometimes not very crisp.

A collage montage...

charmston — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:12:50 -0800

I am looking to order prints of various album covers for a collage to go on an empty wall. Advice is needed on some of the logistics. Firstly, I would like to know where I could acquire printing-quality album art. The iTMS Album Art finder usually returns 600x600 artwork in decent quality. Would this be sufficient quality to get, say a 6"x6" print? Top notch quality isn't a necessity; passable quality will suffice, if it will look good from 3 or 4 feet away.

Secondly, I would like to know the most economical way to get these printed. I have a cheap printer that probably wouldn't suffice for this project, so I probably will end up getting them printed somewhere else. I would probably prefer matted to glossy, but cost will supercede any preferences there. I've checked a few online photo printing sites, but have experience with only walmart.com's services (yeah, it's convienient) and snapfish, which I wasn't especially fond of. Any other recommendations would be much appreciated!

Best program to automate adding ID3s/album art to untagged MP3s?

stuckie — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:58:22 -0800

Can anyone share recommendations for software or "least-effort-techniques" for adding ID3 tags and album art to large sets of unsorted, untagged MP3s? Finally got an video iPod, and am now trying to be meticulous about getting album art and proper metatags for my music (LOVE being able to see album art). Currently using "Tag & Rename", which works pretty well, with a few limitations. It requires a LOT of manual interaction and can only be done an album at a time. Still, I've gotten a "process" down for new rips/downloads which is relatively straightforward.

Here's the problem: I just ran across a spindle of MP3s from the Napster-heyday. This music is often tagged only in the title or the containing folder, and is sometimes misnamed or misspelled. Few metatags and DEFINITELY no album art.

While I like most of the music on these discs and would love to jump-start my collection using this stuff I probably spent a year collecting and pruning, I'm torn by my need to "tag" everything properly and not start adding "junky" files to the iPod. Trouble is, to do this right I could literally spend weeks attempting to create order from this chaos.

The knee-jerk answer might be to dump everything and try to buy or re-download better versions, but since these are mostly "singles", tagging them using T&R would be nearly as time-consuming.

I've heard of programs like MusicMatch which supposedly will ID a song by "digital signature" and can tag it appropriately. Does anyone have any experience with programs like this (or know of anything that works better/faster/cheaper)?

Automagic insertion of album art into iTunes on the PC?

unclemonty — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 04:36:10 -0800

What is the most reliable way of automatically adding album art images to iTunes on a Windows PC? I've done loads of Googling and have checked the AskMeFi archives for this, to no avail. I even tried one piece of software, which didn't seem to work at all. There are a number of options for Macs but I can't find many for the Windows PC. My iTunes library is over 20,000 tracks so there's no way I can manually add images to all of those. Ideally I'd like to leave some application on all night (or for several days!) and have it automatically seek the relevant images and insert them so that iTunes can see them. Any suggestions?

Where can I buy large album art?

Mwongozi — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:08:26 -0800

Where can I buy, or have made, a large print/poster of the album art to Mike Oldfield's Crises? I'd like it to be significantly larger than the CD booklet, so scanning it and reprinting it larger is, I think, out of the question. I considered trying to find a vinyl copy and scanning the sleve, but: a) Vinyl is bigger than my scanner, and b) I'm guessing finding a good quality sleve to scan would be difficult.