With Shannon Campbell giving away heaps of tremendous MP3s of her songs, and Protest Records giving away some of the politically-charged recordings that can’t get airplay on monopoly radio, not to mention Steven’s inspired Ben
& Mena song, it’s time for another step in the dis-integration of the music industry. I propose an alternative album cover art collective. (Has someone already done this? I'm not trying to claim priority here.) Like Blogstickers, only for CD covers.
Now it’s possible for us to burn back-up copies of our legally-obtained MP3s, but all too often we simply write the name of the CD with a marker directly on the disk. If we get ambitious, we print a cover that’s mostly just a list of the cuts. But just as there are gifted musicians out there for whom the music industry doesn’t have room, and gifted writers for whom the print world doesn’t have room (too many to count around here, but Jeneane to start with), there are surely designers around who could make covers available for CDs that don’t exist as official releases.
Hypothetically, someone would start a gallery of covers: thumbnails, with full size images and information on the music and performers in a separate window. One could do this for a collection (say) of Shannon’s songs, or for an assortment of available music.
For that matter, one could make alternative covers for commercially-released CDs. Some have covers so unutterably lame that anything would be an improvement. And a sharp enough designer might attract the kind of attention that gets them a job. . . .
Posted by AKMA at March 28, 2003 09:25 AM | TrackBackExcellent ideas, all. How about ISO images of each disc, including the thumbnails? Is this practicable?
Posted by: wyclif at March 28, 2003 07:14 PMAKMA, you're a scamp! What a great idea!
Posted by: Dave Rogers (C&E) at March 28, 2003 09:28 PMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Catherine at January 12, 2004 11:26 PMSeth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.
Posted by: Anthony at January 12, 2004 11:27 PMEach Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.
Posted by: Gregory at January 12, 2004 11:27 PMWhen the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.
Posted by: Jerome at January 13, 2004 10:31 AMNote first that favoriteNumbers type changed. Instead of our familiar int, we're now using int*. The asterisk here is an operator, which is often called the "star operator". You will remember that we also use an asterisk as a sign for multiplication. The positioning of the asterisk changes its meaning. This operator effectively means "this is a pointer". Here it says that favoriteNumber will be not an int but a pointer to an int. And instead of simply going on to say what we're putting in that int, we have to take an extra step and create the space, which is what does. This function takes an argument that specifies how much space you need and then returns a pointer to that space. We've passed it the result of another function, , which we pass int, a type. In reality, is a macro, but for now we don't have to care: all we need to know is that it tells us the size of whatever we gave it, in this case an int. So when is done, it gives us an address in the heap where we can put an integer. It is important to remember that the data is stored in the heap, while the address of that data is stored in a pointer on the stack.
Posted by: Anthony at January 13, 2004 10:31 AMSeth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.
Posted by: Melchior at January 13, 2004 10:32 AM