Hi folks, For those of us in the music biz, the following is for your information. Katim ----- Original Message ----- To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: attention: advice to CD producers > Globistas, > > My ditto to Great Thanks to Kay and Nevada for this info-and-discussion space. > > Don't remember whether I've used it for the following before, but these > points cannot be made too often to all CD producers. I've just sent them > on for the umpteenth time--this time to a specific distributor to pass on > to the labels she handles. > > Maybe some of you have additional suggestions that we can all keep making > to the appropriate folks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > > Dear CD producers, > > You might get more air-time and more sales if your products were fully > user-friendly. Think about both the radio DJs and the home-listeners. > (1) It's really crazy to not have all the following info printed > on each CD: (a) Artist Name, (b) Album Name, (c) Company Name and (d) > Catalog Number, and (e) Year. It's really easy to leave a disc at the > radio station or at a party, or just out of the box in one's own playing > space. And how in the world is one to identify it? > (2) It's also a good idea to have all that info on the back of the > box; and it's not a bad idea to also have it on the back (or inside) of the > booklet. > (3) For radio play (or even at home), it's useful to have the > numbers and timings of the pieces both on the back of the box and in the > booklet, and even repeated on the back of the booklet. (I don't find it > very useful at all to have such info, or even the piece names, on the CD > itself, as some are.) > (4) A lot of the booklets and/or CD -faces are clearly designed to > be artsy-fartsy; and many of them are interesting and/or attractive > looking. However, to me it's more important that they are readable. And > the more info, the better--both to encourage more radio play and to > stimulate further listening and buying. > > Marta Nicholas, Int'l programming, WHPK, Chicago > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface ----------------------------------------------------------------------------