ALBUM CREDITS!!!! ***

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ALBUM CREDITS!!!! ***

I have been a music lover my entire life. and yes I am an audio engineer as well so I have a vested interest in being recognized for the work I do. I find it disgraceful and insulting that you can't accomplish the simple task of adding the album credits to the albums that you stream/sell through iTunes Music and iTunes music store. I mean for god sake you give a programmer credit for coding an app why can't you add the Producer, engineers, assistants and places where an album was recorded and mixed. does it really take that much memory??? you say you want to help the Music industry survive but you in reality your just a bunch of Half a&*es who can't give credit where credit is due. The artist relies on us to deliver a recorded mixed and mastered sellable piece of art and frankly you just take a big crap on it when you don't recognize that the support crew behind the artist is about 50-70% of the hard work that you are hearing.

And the saddest part of this post is that no one at apple will care or do anything about it and that it will probably be taken down. As Studioslave said in a previous post:

studioslave May 4, 2006 2:01 PM wrong forum I know.

But seriously. How can you not post the album credits and still justify posting the artwork.

List the Credits Please. It's Only Fair.

Can't really believe they were ommited in the first place.

At least have a cooperative link to a site like allmusic.

Seriously Doubt the film people will allow you to omit their credits.

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Posted on Sep 30, 2015 7:41 AM

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Answer 1

Qchunk

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Jan 12, 2017 11:23 AM in response to Luz De Luna

I'm just a fan who played in high school and college bands. I like looking to see who wrote the song, or arranged something. A shame.

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Sep 30, 2015 8:21 AM in response to Luz De Luna

Hi Luz,

I hear you. If I could make a couple of points:

1. This is a user forum, so if you want Apple to get the message, you might use the feedback page: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

2. This problem you've identified is an industry-wide issue, not restricted to Apple or iTunes, and to a great extent it comes down to the lack of a standard in the music industry concerning what kind of information gets added to digital music in the form of metadata -- those tags like "Artist" and "Album" that are written into the music file itself. There's a lot of discussion going on about this lately -- driven in part by the classical music community, as the amount of information relevant to a given classical recording (composer, conductor, orchestra, soloists, place and date of recording, et alia, in addition to the kind of production credits you're speaking about) can become very complex. There's an initiative to improve and standardize the metadata system that you can read about here:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1560778/how-incons istent-metadata-impedes-music-industry-growth

http://musicbiz.org/press-releases/music-biz-music-metadata-style-guide/

3. Film credits are an interesting example for comparison -- they're "hard-written" so to speak into the film or video itself, and I'm pretty sure this system came into being because of pressure within the industry from unions and trade groups representing the various people involved in film production. This seems like an example to follow in the music industry.

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