I was wondering if anyone knew why record companies don’t do this?
I checked an Elvis CD out of the library and it has no listing of tracks on the CD cover.
I realize I’m probably the only person in the world that never really listened to elvis before but it’s annoying not to know the name of the song.
Is it a cost thing? Do record companies really save that much money by not printing song names on the CD. They print other things on the CDs so how much of a savings could it be to print the name Elvis over and over and not the name of the songs.
I could see this as now most people use MP3s but I have seen older CDs where they do this too.
Cause it looks cool! About half of the records we get at our station either have the tracks written in the coolest manner possible, so cool that we can’t even read the damn things, or they forgo all the numbers so we have to number them ourselves. Since they are printing a picture, and it’s no big deal to put text on the picture, they either think it’s cool or are plain lazy. Take your pick.
Since you have a computer, you could put the CD in it and have Windows Media Player or some similar program fetch the track names and list them for you. Then, even if you play the CD in another player, you’d still have a list of titles to refer to.
I do dislike shopping for CDs and not knowing how many tracks there on a CD.
Nothing like paying 15 bucks for a CD only to find out its 8 songs long. So now I start doing my research ahead of time, but it totally kills the fun of browsing for CDs…
And I used to love artists that’d reprint lyrics inside their CDs, but now with the internets being what it is, its no longer that big a deal to me.