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Alex Chapin. “Play” AcademiX 2009: iPods and 2nd Language Acquisition. 2008 04:24

itune-chinese01.pngMost media players such as iTunes read the ID3 metadata embedded in audio files and use it to create a UI for searching, browsing, reading and listening.

  • Browsing
  • Searching
  • Reading
  • Listening

Album Art and Lyrics

Mobile media devices have small screens with limited display capabilities.  iPods, particularly the touch and those in iPhones use most of the screen to display “album art.”  Thus we tried to put “information” into the “album art” image that would be useful to students…

 

 Using album art to display additional metadata
Using album art to display “pronunciation diagrams”
Using lyrics to display audio transcript  Using lyrics to display verb conjugations


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