i kind of dislike the word "album"

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• Klinotaxis

  2016-01-27 01:23:46

  kill living beings
  

  eight track
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-27 01:24:18

  https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png

  no, no one uses, or has ever used, those.
• Tachyon

  2016-01-27 01:26:19

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  opportunity for Cadpig reference
  
  @Anonus
• Tre

  2016-01-27 01:27:02 edited 2016-01-27 01:28:24

  
  

  Fascinating how our views are wildly different on both this and our release schedules.

  
  

  I like 'album' and 'EP' in reference to my work so all of my releases thus far can be classified as one or the other.

  
  

  I also make my releases a slow(er) burn type of thing; this is only partially by choice (school's a bit of a limiter). There was one time (April-November 2014) where I tried to keep putting stuff out but I realized it wasn't sustainable so I took more time with the last two things I released (especially Elsewise, which took the better part of 2015 to make).
• Tachyon

  2016-01-27 01:27:49

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i say record sometimes now but for the longest time i thought "record" meant it had to be vinyl
  
  i also thought "LP" meant vinyl
  
• Princess Alice

  2016-01-27 01:36:25

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  check out this photo record, it's got pictures of me when i was a baby
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-27 01:36:47

  https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png

  :slam dunks the princess:
• Princess Alice

  2016-01-27 01:37:35

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  *maintains princess composure, which is a shame because Jane really deserves to be tripped on her way out of the room*
• Anonus

  2016-01-27 01:39:39

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Jane said:

  no, no one uses, or has ever used, those.

  Why wouldn't they? There's been worse ideas!
• Tachyon

  2016-01-27 01:52:35

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  weirdly enough "album" arguably was meant to refer only to vinyl since the term comes from the sleeves supposedly resembling a photo album
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-01-27 01:55:04 edited 2016-01-27 01:55:16

  When tagging classical works, I put things like "Sonata in C major, Op. 2 #3" in the Album field, with the individual movements being the "songs".
  
• Klinotaxis

  2016-01-27 02:15:24

  kill living beings
  

  Jane said:

  no, no one uses, or has ever used, those.

  
  
• Odradek

  2016-01-27 02:24:53

  My dreams exceed my real life

  DAE remember laserdisk
• Imipolex G

  2016-01-27 02:45:47

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  digital compact cassette
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-27 05:44:25

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Baldanders said:

  DAE remember laserdisk

  If you are at all familiar with anime of a certain vintage, you will know what a LaserDisc is.
• sunn wolf

  2016-01-27 05:46:09

  minidisc
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-27 05:51:47

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Formats I have seen albums in: CD/CDr (5", 3"; single-sided double-sided); vinyl (6", 7", 8", 10", 12", 13"; factory-pressed, lathe-cut); shellac; acetate/dubplate; cassette (20, 30, 46, 60, 74, 90, 120); eight-track tape; DAT; minidisc; repurposed CD to be played like a vinyl record.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-27 05:52:21 edited 2016-01-27 05:53:40

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Oh, and DVD and USB, naturally.

  
  

  And flexi-disc. How did I forget that? Also, I think picture discs fall under "vinyl" as well.
• Imipolex G

  2016-01-27 06:01:37

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  but what about wax cylinders? huh?
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-27 06:04:50

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  True.

  
  

  Funny, I've heard of DCC, but no albums released in that format. I have definitely seen a few specific records in DAT and MD, baffling as that is, but DCC is fairly rare.
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-01-27 06:41:56

  > repurposed CD to be played like a vinyl record
  
  this must be the most win one
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-27 06:51:06

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  glennmagusharvey said:

  > repurposed CD to be played like a vinyl record
  
  this must be the most win one
  

  There's a website where you can send them CDs to make into singles, but I would have to look it up again. One of Nautical Almanac's singles was done this way.
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-01-27 07:04:45

  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-27 07:05:28

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Fuck yes.
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-27 13:43:37

  https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png

  to me that seems like a waste of a perfectly good CD

  
  

  I like all album formats equally though.
• Tre

  2016-01-27 15:41:53 edited 2016-01-27 15:42:48

  
  

  Tiny and Big has made me curious about cassettes, though I neither own any nor a means of playing them so it's something I'll have to check out later.
  
  I don't think Black Pants ever put the soundtrack in such a form but if it did exist I'd hunt down a Walkman for it alone.
• sunn wolf

  2016-01-27 15:57:59 edited 2016-01-27 15:58:29

  guys the best audio format is pieces of tree.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-27 16:02:04

  https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png

  I have a tape player but the thing that holds in the batteries is missing so I have to turn it upside-down to use it.

  
  

  it's also clunky as fuck.
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-01-27 16:21:10

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  The Cheat's got something on a laserdisc
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-01-29 06:11:53

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  sunn wolf said:

  guys the best audio format is pieces of tree.
  

  I forgot about that. Thank you.
• Klinotaxis

  2016-01-29 06:17:07

  kill living beings
  

  I bet recording's a bitch.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-01-29 06:22:57

  Pretty sure most people would just leave that idea be.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-29 18:16:51

  https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png

  man imagine an alternate universe where that somehow became the dominant form of analog recording. Even shellac has to be easier to work with than that garbage.

  
  

  tho it'd be a good idea for like a D&D setting or something.