Welcome!
iLongPlay is a design and software studio with special focus on iTunes LP files. Our mission is to provide musicians and other artists outside the scope of Apple's iTunes LP development program, with professionally developed iTunes LP files, for them to distribute their content, whether it's music, video, or anything you think will fit an iTunes LP. Make your content stand out, add special features, pictures, give it a unified context. Make your fans even more fans!!
What's an iTunes LP
iTunes LP is the newly released format for digital content distribution.
Developed by Apple with the intention of giving digital content a unified interface, resembling record albums.
iTunes LP could be compared to what a DVD is, where the content is complemented with special features like behind the scenes, Live performances, and more.
For more information about iTunes LP go to Wikipedia
Project: Listen by Tryad
Download it!How it started:
iLongPlay creators have radically different backgrounds, but we have one thing in common: we are big music fans. Because of that, the idea behind this project was as simple as applying our knowledge (in design and programming) to what we enjoy the most (music).
Some people say that business and pleasure cannot mix, we are not one of those!. We believe that if you give everything you´ve got in everything you do, no matter what, the outcomes will be always better.
"Listen" by Tryad is the realization of our first project.
Tryad generously offers its music for free, for everyone to listen or to build-upon, licensing its work under Creative Commons license. They promote themselves in their website, Facebook page and distributing their records through Jamendo. Having released their last album in 2006, they have amounted a big international fanbase eager to get their hands on any new material the band puts out. With all that in consideration, we thought we could help the band to take their next step into a bigger world, and what could be better than the release of an iTunes LP?
This project was specially challenging since we didn’t count with the band feedback. As for being this our first project and with the intention to make tangible our vision, we choose Tryad to produce the LP without informing them while producing it.
We design and developed iTunes LP to make the music experience more complete, taking digital album downloads to the next level. For the art, we based ourselves in what the band has been using, improving and adapting it to the new medium iTunes LP is, and intended to represent their music and translate visually the textures and atmospheres Tryad´s sound generates.
We hope Tryad fans enjoy this new approach of the album "Listen", and for those who haven´t heard about them, this will be a great way to get to know this talented band.
This iTunes LP download is totally for free and legal. To download it just follow the instructions and enjoy it!
Previews
Download it!
Listen iTunes LP is free and licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA. In order to enjoy it you just have to follow this easy steps:
- Download it.
- Once downloaded, Unzip it.
- Drag all of the files to iTunes, 13 .m4a files and the .itlp file
- In iTunes play the file named "iTunes LP - Listen"
Two of Us
The tech guy: Born in the beautiful Montevideo, Uruguay, where I still live. I'm the guy in charge of all of the technical aspects of this project, from iTunes LP development to email configuration, everything is in my hands.
I started when I was 16 making websites, where premium dialers where the gold mine of the internet. Hosting them in free servers and placing banners to make money of it, five months later I got my first check... for 50 dollars. Read More
Soon after this, I started working on my brother's web development studio, where I continue making websites. There I learned almost everything I know about the web and my HTML knowledge grew exponentially. After finishing the high school, in 2004, my brother encourage me to start learning some programing, I took a five month course in PHP and the following year I took .Net programing for a year.
In october of 2005, I started working as a PHP developer for a multinational company with a branch in Uruguay. Working on admins and reporting systems I got rock solid PHP, Javascript and CSS knowledge and some linux too. During my time in this company I met Pablo Boquete.
From 2007 to the present I've been working for an United States company working in the Mobile Marketing industry, whose software development facility is located in Uruguay. Here I lead a group of people, most of the work I do here is related to interface development.
Lately, I've been keen on Objective-C/Cocoa development (this is Mac osX applications), without loosing interest in the internet technologies.
In my free time I enjoy playing the drums, and spending time with my daughter.
The Art Guy: I am the guy in charge of the "visual aspects" of iLongPlay and its projects. LP interfaces design, management and design of the visual identity of iLongPlay and it’s website, in short, everything related with art and design is in my hands.
From 1997 to 2000 I studied photography cursing various workshops, some of them about general photography and others more specifics, like illumination, special effects, photo essay, naked portraits and digital images. Read More
Around 1999 I started to work as freelancer photographer for various publications. In 2000, with two fellow photographers, we open the photographic workshop “Estudio Nativo”, a extremely rewarding venture to which I was involved until summer of 2003, returning to my freelancer activity. In parallel during the period 2000-2003 I performed different photo exhibitions collectively and individually.
In 2002 with the intention to expand my knowledge in regard to digital imaging I took an introductory course to graphic design, where basically I expanded my knowledge in the handling of Adobe Photoshop and I was started in the management of other software such as CorelDraw, Illustrator, Page Maker, etc.
There I discoverd my pasion for graphic design and in the following year started studding it in the university ORT of Montevideo, Uruguay (country where I was born and still live), getting my degree in 2005 as Graphic and web designer.
From mid 2004 I started to work as both freelance photographer and freelance designer, By 2005 I was only working exclusively as graphic designer, using photograph as a tool for my design works. From mid 2006 to present I work in the design department of a Mobile Added Value Services multinational company with a branch here in Uruguay.
In 2007 I enroll in a Bachelor of Arts degree program in “Universidad de la Republica” currently finishing 3rd grade of it.
A few months ago I started a comics workshop, and sooner I shipped with Juan Silva in the adventure of creating iLongPlay!
Contact
Did you get excited about this? Want an iTunes LP for your work? Great! We'd love to hear from you, send us an email to contact@ilongplay.com.
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