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With how bad AI art is, I kind of wish that artists would be ok letting their work stand on its own. Like does an album need a cover or an article graphics if it’s just the equivalent of visual static. It’s not really elevating the piece any, it’s just there to fill a void. Make it ok to have stand alone pieces again!
Yeah i mean ive seen some straight dogshit album covers for good music. Its not like the cover sells the thing anyways.
Royalty free music is pretty cheap to come by and coding isnt that difficult.
If you need a thing and cant pay for a thing, then learn to do the thing. A shit job is better than ai generated imho
What programs have you written?
Bro stop, it's literally my career because it was the only thing that felt easy to me (I tried a bunch of stuff before), like it's a lot easier and cheaper to learn on your own than most crafts and imo it should be even easier. I don't take this as offense, I take it as a compliment that we are one of the few careers where people still have enough power over their tools to genuinely improve them and enough solidarity to put in the effort of making it more and more accessible to others, be it by making simpler tools, or writing tutorials and guides for free, or taking the time to answer even the noobiest questions. I want to see more and more comments like this.
I was triggered by that statement too and about to throw a rant, but I think they mean it like "creating a webpage", using stuff like wordpress and the like, because they're an artist who wants to show off their portfolio or something.
There's a lot of "DIY" that abstracts away the actual programming part, so others can just build what they need easily.
Im a software developer by trade. Originally for a msp combining several companies' backups and Outlook info (locally hosted and 365) into a single SQL backed dashboard, now under an NDA.
Seriously! I yearn for the old days of really crappy photoshop album covers! They’re at least an earnest expression of what the band is trying to convey
The existence of AI art is currently the most convincing proof I have ever seen of the existence of the human soul.
You can literally take a photo on your phone and add some text in gimp. No one buys music for the cover art (I do acknowledge that good cover art adds something, but it's not usually make or break).
Exactly. The Beatles released an album with a blank white cover. It was brilliant. There's really no need to fill every space with slop.
I've had CDs in the past that were just one color with the name of the artist/band and the album name. Nothing else. No one cared either because it would just be thrown into the CD zip up case or a cd holder attached to the sun vizer.
ehh. i sort of do use cover art as a filter tho, especially when i am looking for things like death metal or crust on bandcamp, a hand-drawn or collaged cover that looks very grotty and possibly by others' standards "not very good" is something i will click on and probably end up buying. i have found a lot of bands i like that way, generally if they are using that style of artwork they will be my jam. it's not pointless visual static to me, it's additional information about how the album will sound.