I'm “soft-launching” a new section of my Web site today, a site to share vinyl album art. I've given it the grand name of the Album Art Emporium.
There's not a whole lot of content there now but, if you're interested and you have a minute to take a peek at it, I'm interested in feedback in terms of usefulness, layout and so on.
Why am I doing this?
Well, I began digitizing my vinyl record collection in 2008. For many of records, various online services would automatically retrieve album art and other information once I'd dumped the digitized files into iTunes. But in too many cases, the information was either absent, incomplete, or substantially different from the original vinyl. So with the help of a digital camera and some image editing software, I'm digitizing the album art as I digitize the actual music. This site will contain that digitized album art and, I hope, serve as a resource for collectors and others interested in the same stuff.
Cool idea. Didn't know someone else at the office was into vinyl. Do you have many?
Cool idea, David. Didn't know someone else at the office was into vinyl. Do you have many?
Ya, when I converted my music for my i pod, about half of the album cover art work was unable to be found by i tunes. The thing that bothered me about this was that each of these albums/c.d. I have sitting in my music shelf. I had thought to myself to take on this endeavour, but I'm glad someone else did it as I don't seem to have enough time for it.