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Apple Album motion and Tidal Album motion are two similar formats that artists like yourself can use to enhance the streaming experience and deepen the storytelling and engagement of your music with fans. In this blog, we'll look at the key difference between the two streaming platforms and teach you how to make your own animated album cover with Musixmatch Pro easily.
Apple Artwork with motion is a relatively new and underutilized feature available to artists/ Apple music album covers can create an immersive streaming experience with animated and motion-forward content on the platform. These motion covers are enhancements of traditional static album artwork, upgraded with animations and dynamic elements to improve the storytelling and visual impact of the music. However, Apple Music is not the only streaming platform to offer this type of engagement mechanism. Spotify first launched Spotify Canvas, and now Tidal has Album Motion integrated into their platform. In this blog, we'll look at the differences between Apple Album Motion and Tidal Album Motion and show you how you can effortlessly make animated artwork covers for your music.
Essentially, both visual components are the same; however, Apple Music has less strict regulations on what is and is not acceptable for visuals and file requirements. Nevertheless, you can use the same animated artwork across platforms to reach potential listeners with the most impactful visuals for your music. The result is similar to a more immersive listening experience by adding visual movement to the album art. The key difference lies in the duration of the video. On Apple Music, dynamic artwork can be 8-35 seconds long, whereas Tidal Album motion can only be at most 10 seconds long.
On Apple Music, motion artwork is more focused on looping content, akin to a never-ending concert. The animations themselves need to be subtle and serve as enhancements to the existing static artwork of the original album cover. The animated artwork should be refined and complement the music. Artists must deliver the file via Apple's content delivery system, and from there, it will be used across the artist's catalog when users stream it, making it a standout song in a playlist view.
With Tidal Album Motion, the concept is similar; however, Tidal has a shorter duration of 10 seconds maximum. Tidal as a platform emphasizes higher quality resolution and audio quality. Despite these differences it's relatively simple to optimize your album artwork to both platforms.
We may be biased, but the best way to make an album cover with motion is with Musixmatch Pro's Animated Artwork tool. With it, you'll make every stream impossible to ignore when you transform your static covers into living visuals. With our AI tool, we automatically add animation to your album covers, bringing them to life in just seconds. The Animated Artwork tool lets you customize and personalize the artwork effortlessly. The output is automatically optimized to meet the standards required for both Apple Music and Tidal Album Motion.
Discover some of the fantastic artwork created with the tool and learn how to use it with our step-by-step guide to creating motion album covers with Musixmatch Pro.
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