Anyone else include cover arts in their music collections?

[Mozgus]

This is a little feature in XP I've ignored for years, but just recently decided to make use of it.

I know a lot of modern music managers have features like this commonplace, but I'm old school I guess. I prefer to just have organized physical folders and play them with Winamp 2.x. It can be pretty tough finding cover art for some of these albums. For example, it took me 30 minutes to find the cover of that extremely obscure megaman album "Road to X". If the folder is just a music rip strait from the game data, I just look for the game's cover art. I've already found the covers for my other musical genres.

Who else does this crap?

[Perseid]

Heh. If I download a CD that comes with scans I keep them but I don't set out to find them. It would be nice to find a program to automate that.

[extrarice]

I don't bother. I don't buy digital music (iTunes Store, or whatever) - I like having the physical CD so I can do with it whatever I want and not have to break the law if I want it in a different format (yay, DMCA). When I import a CD, I don't add cover music. I'm just going to play music, not stare at a small .jpg of the cover, so I figure I'll save the small bits of HD space.

[Mozgus]

I don't bother. I don't buy digital music (iTunes Store, or whatever) - I like having the physical CD so I can do with it whatever I want and not have to break the law if I want it in a different format (yay, DMCA). When I import a CD, I don't add cover music. I'm just going to play music, not stare at a small .jpg of the cover, so I figure I'll save the small bits of HD space.

Um, ouch. That post sounds unnecessarily harsh.

I have 350 covers so far, and they only take up 18MB. I'll live.

MP3 works for me.

Half the music I have is actually impossible to acquire legally. Buying music just isn't an option, considering my tastes. Even then, the price would never be worth it. CDs also take up too much room and too much effort to care for.

But none of that is what this thread was supposed to be about.

[Pullmyfinger]

I also have the art, but usually the ripping tool or Windows Media Player will get them for me, that's a whole lot of game music, I couldn't listen to game music all day :S, the only game music I ever listen to is The JSR OST and a few from SC5.

[Mozgus]

that's a whole lot of game music, I couldn't listen to game music all day :S, the only game music I ever listen to is The JSR OST and a few from SC5.

Well thats because it's from my game music folder, wherein lies my game music. Most game music is better than most "real" music out there today.

[extrarice]

Um, ouch. That post sounds unnecessarily harsh.

I have 350 covers so far, and they only take up 18MB. I'll live.

MP3 works for me.

Half the music I have is actually impossible to acquire legally. Buying music just isn't an option, considering my tastes. Even then, the price would never be worth it. CDs also take up too much room and too much effort to care for.

But none of that is what this thread was supposed to be about.

Sorry about sounding harsh ^^; I wasn't intending to sound that way, but it came out that way. I can definitely see your point about CDs taking up too much space. I agree, completely. I still like having them though (it's the pack-rat in me . A lot of the music I have is also extremely difficult to get through "normal" channels (i.e. imports, unreleased stuff, space-shifted music rips from various things). For example, I'd love it if Square-Enix would release their soundtracks in the States, but they don't, so I have no moral objection to downloading a CD rip or a game rip, of the music, since it's not for sale to me. Legally, it's wrong (sort of - format-shifting, or space-shifting is indeed legal, but that's another topic), but ethically, I have no problems with it.

[Mozgus]

Sorry about sounding harsh ^^; I wasn't intending to sound that way, but it came out that way. I can definitely see your point about CDs taking up too much space. I agree, completely. I still like having them though (it's the pack-rat in me . A lot of the music I have is also extremely difficult to get through "normal" channels (i.e. imports, unreleased stuff, space-shifted music rips from various things). For example, I'd love it if Square-Enix would release their soundtracks in the States, but they don't, so I have no moral objection to downloading a CD rip or a game rip, of the music, since it's not for sale to me. Legally, it's wrong (sort of - format-shifting, or space-shifting is indeed legal, but that's another topic), but ethically, I have no problems with it.

I'm just all about piracy and thats always how it will be. I like to have tons of content to access through very simple, small devices. If I can store 100,000 songs on a hard drive, then I just cant see any reason why I should buy CDs. I may get into legal downloading eventually, once I have an actual income, but I'm not sure. But I know that I'm not hurting the industry in any way. If online piracy wasn't an option, then I would just be locally pirating things, like I did growing up. I still wouldn't be purchasing anything.

[Perseid]

Sorry about sounding harsh ^^; I wasn't intending to sound that way, but it came out that way. I can definitely see your point about CDs taking up too much space. I agree, completely. I still like having them though (it's the pack-rat in me . A lot of the music I have is also extremely difficult to get through "normal" channels (i.e. imports, unreleased stuff, space-shifted music rips from various things). For example, I'd love it if Square-Enix would release their soundtracks in the States, but they don't, so I have no moral objection to downloading a CD rip or a game rip, of the music, since it's not for sale to me. Legally, it's wrong (sort of - format-shifting, or space-shifting is indeed legal, but that's another topic), but ethically, I have no problems with it.

I'm just all about piracy and thats always how it will be. I like to have tons of content to access through very simple, small devices. If I can store 100,000 songs on a hard drive, then I just cant see any reason why I should buy CDs. I may get into legal downloading eventually, once I have an actual income, but I'm not sure. But I know that I'm not hurting the industry in any way. If online piracy wasn't an option, then I would just be locally pirating things, like I did growing up. I still wouldn't be purchasing anything.

The problem with legal downloading is DRM. With an MP3 I can copy it as much as I wish, listen to it however I want. With iTunes, for example, I'm restricted as to how many times I can copy it and what devices I can put it on. Why should I pay for it when the legal version is inferior?

[Mozgus]

The problem with legal downloading is DRM. With an MP3 I can copy it as much as I wish, listen to it however I want. With iTunes, for example, I'm restricted as to how many times I can copy it and what devices I can put it on. Why should I pay for it when the legal version is inferior?

I would never use iTunes. This iPod sensation just never grabbed me. I like my iRiver just fine, and it cost 1/2 as much as similar spec iPods did.