Thursday, October 15, 2009
Old-School, New Enhanced CD
It's tough to be a musician nowadays. Not like it wasn't rough in earlier years, but thanks to this crazy, super-convenient Internet world we live in, there's all kinds of competition for your ears (and eyes). If you have a new bunch of tunes you'd like to get out to the world, you need to think of ways to set yourself apart outside of just being "awesome musicians."
So in putting together our new five-song EP, "Hey Girl," Giant Wow had the idea of value-adding it with extra content: MP3s of additional songs, photos of the band, and even the video for one of our songs, Cosmonaut. How would we be able to do something like that? By making our new CD an "enhanced CD" -- a hybrid of an audio disc and a data disc.
I remembered that it was pretty easy to make these kinds of discs with your standard CD-burning software. So imagine my surprise when we found out that today's professional mastering software couldn't take...