Music artists, labels create enhanced albums for iPad

A nicer menu sounds cool to me, but other extra content is not so interesting. I might watch/read it once or twice, but not worth the extra space in the limited hard drive... As long as it's optional, other people might enjoy and if I decide not to, I just unselect it and that's it.

They stole my idea! I love the concept, if done right it turns this digital media back into a tangible item. Something separate from the 20,000 songs we all have in our libraries, that you can take out and fondle, flip through, and show your friends. You can even make it interactive (like, message boards for each song, how many people are listening right now? global plays?). It would be cool if regular mp3s came with the app somehow. I've been working on a similar delivery method for a TV show I'm producing, as well as some musical content I'll be putting out in the next year. I couldn't believe it hadn't already been done, but maybe I can still be the first to put out some music this way as the "exclusive" means of distribution.

This sounds cool!

@Tatonka.

The whole Terminal etc is if you buy the LP.

These albums are not that way. They are iOS apps where everything is inside the app data. Which is what I don't like. I would rather that they and the Dark Knight etc movie apps were more like LPs where it just plugged in from your standard movie and music files as an add on. Basically making them iOSified LPs

I don't really understand why you can't yet view an iTunes LP on any iOS device, and on your computer... so as a result, EMI has had to create a special app for it. I think that you should get an iTunes download code for the audio only version of the album if you spend the money to get the Album app. Then you could at least have it in many places. I'm certainly not going to hook up my iPad to my car stereo to listen to songs in an app, and I'm not going to pay another $10 for the album again. In addition, I don't want my Home screen cluttered with individual apps for music album apps, nor individual books/magazines for that matter. This is what iTunes (iPod), iBooks/Amazon, and Zinio apps are for. Keep it all together in a reader or listener app!!

as a designer, i love this idea. bring it!

Just on my iPad? No.

On my iPad AND computer AND Apple TV AND (at least the audio) on all my iDevices ... Yes.

I couldn't care less about this so called "added value". I am listening to music mostly on my iPod on the go or via the HiFi system at home. I don't sit in front of the computer and watch that stuff .. besides the videos maybe. The whole menu thing is useless to me.

I have bought iTunes LP albums before and would do it again .. for the same price (or sometimes it was the only option) .. but never would I pay extra.

T.

my issue with these enhanced album/movie apps is that you can't play the core media outside of the app. So if I buy an album and want to put it on my ipod nano to take to the gym, i'm SOL.

The reason the LPs never took off is that the extra content can only be played back on your computer... I can't fathom why they aren't supported on iOS devices. I'd love to use those beautiful interfaces on my Apple TV.