With a higher Leontyne Price than regular albums , no lossless audioand virtually no gadget support , iTunes LPseems like a heavy sell . Turns out , it might be lame for musicians too — at least , the single without atomic number 78 records . update
https://gizmodo.com/itunes-lps-should-be-lossless-5356005
I spoke with Brian McKinney , who runsChocolate Lab Records , a smallish label out of Chicago . As someone who actually seduce disk , he saw potential in iTunes LP , and after consider howincredibly simplethe actual LP files are , started looking into making some himself . It did n’t go so well :
https://gizmodo.com/the-secrets-of-itunes-lp-5359046
I contacted the digital distribution director at my label ’s electrical distributor . He had a conference call with an iTunes rep and asked how we go about putting an LP together . He was told that LPs are n’t being offer to indies and that there are only about 12 LP being offered right now . They also said that iTunes charges a $ 10,000 production fee for them as well . So that pretty much edges out the indie market wholly .
Deflecting unfavorable judgment that it ’s just another way to coerce a few additional dollars out of client , Apple pitches iTunes LP as a way to bring back “ the visual experience of the record record album ” ( Which they help shoot down in the first place . Penance , or something ! )
But if they ’re charging ridiculous , prohibitive fee and only letting a few major label take advantage of this — you do it , the single that iTunes need to keep happy to be a feasible medicine store , not the ones that might actually make something artistically interesting with LP — that romanticistic cry for the return of the record album ( it ’s more like the return of theDigipak , anyway ) sounds a cynical and disingenuous . More to the spot , it ’ll eternally doom LP to gimmickry , because , well , theDave Matthews Bandcan only stockpile you so far . — Thanks , Brian !
Update : Apple just chip in us this comment , which on the face of it contradicts some of what was sound out above :
We ’re liberate the receptive spec for iTunes LP soon , allow both major and indie label to create their own . There is no output fee charged by Apple .
So , with the open specs in property it seems like indie labels ( or any other label ) will be able-bodied to make iTunes LPs as much as they desire , and not at a mandatory $ 10k a pop music .
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