Comments on: A New & Improved Lulu Search Engine http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/05/28/a-new-improved-lulu-search-engine/ Adventures in Self-Publishing Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Giuseppe http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/05/28/a-new-improved-lulu-search-engine/#comment-125 Giuseppe Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:15:29 +0000 http://lulublog.com/2008/05/28/a-new-improved-lulu-search-engine/#comment-125 I don't know who to write, but I have important suggestions to give for the cd audio section of the site... if you have an address I can write to, please give me it... or if you can post them to someone of the creators, well, here they are. I believe the audio cd part is a bit the Cinderella of Lulu, at the moment. So many things to improve! But bands and artists, and listeners also, are so exactingly! A music cd is (more today than ever, as an object of choice in opposition to mp3!) a piece of art and should be perfect as the ones sold in shops! Many things can, and should, be improved a lot. 1- Why don't you give the "pro user" the possibility to upload a premade iso file? So we could be sure our project is identical to the cd's we sell in shops? I refer to pauses between tracks, track names visible in certain cd players and important features one cannot manage just uploading the simple .wav files For an example, My band's cd features a special cd-rom session and Lulu version won't! 2- Then, I suggest you to improve a lot the artwork part... why not letting us upload a full .pdf artwork for the booklet, instead of single parts? my artwork consists of two foldable pages, but I found I had to cut it into single faces. and I just can't imagine what could happen if my cd had a full 24-page booklet :-O You should try and give a look to what photobucket offers to its users, it's GREAT, just like a little online photoshop. And you should add to it a possibility to have a preview of the result (i.e. with a prospect of the plied side of the cd). Science fiction? Not for an important company like Lulu. 3- Last thing: you should offer alternatives to jewel cases, at least the widely used and beloved digipack... I believe an important company like Lulu should always be one step ahead of people's expectation and I'm sorry to say that's not the case with audio cds. Giuseppe Iacobaci I don’t know who to write, but I have important suggestions to give for the cd audio section of the site… if you have an address I can write to, please give me it… or if you can post them to someone of the creators, well, here they are.

I believe the audio cd part is a bit the Cinderella of Lulu, at the moment. So many things to improve! But bands and artists, and listeners also, are so exactingly!
A music cd is (more today than ever, as an object of choice in opposition to mp3!) a piece of art and should be perfect as the ones sold in shops!

Many things can, and should, be improved a lot.

1- Why don’t you give the “pro user” the possibility to upload a premade iso file? So we could be sure our project is identical to the cd’s we sell in shops? I refer to pauses between tracks, track names visible in certain cd players and important features one cannot manage just uploading the simple .wav files
For an example, My band’s cd features a special cd-rom session and Lulu version won’t!

2- Then, I suggest you to improve a lot the artwork part… why not letting us upload a full .pdf artwork for the booklet, instead of single parts? my artwork consists of two foldable pages, but I found I had to cut it into single faces. and I just can’t imagine what could happen if my cd had a full 24-page booklet :-O You should try and give a look to what photobucket offers to its users, it’s GREAT, just like a little online photoshop. And you should add to it a possibility to have a preview of the result (i.e. with a prospect of the plied side of the cd). Science fiction? Not for an important company like Lulu.

3- Last thing: you should offer alternatives to jewel cases, at least the widely used and beloved digipack…

I believe an important company like Lulu should always be one step ahead of people’s expectation and I’m sorry to say that’s not the case with audio cds.
Giuseppe Iacobaci

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