Jody Whitesides

Author: Jody Whitesides

  • Fresh Animated Cover Art Drop! ‘Do You Want to Play Dallas Wings’ is Here!

    Fresh Animated Cover Art Drop! ‘Do You Want to Play Dallas Wings’ is Here!

    The updates are still continuing. Another song released: Do You Want to Play Dallas Wings. The WNBA is taking flight with yet another team.

    If you’re coming to my site for the first time, at the point of this post – then you wouldn’t know that my site was getting stale. And that even though last week I had mentioned that my site was essentially 99% done with the update I launched a few weeks back.

    This one is fun. I have been doing animated covers for Apple Music. As more and more of the releases come out, there will be more of them coming. As you may have noticed on the front page, the cover is animated. Several others of recent release that have the animated covers have now been updated as well.

    Doing the animated covers is a nice subtle way to make something interesting. Having started it, my determination is that my background video for music pages is horrendously way too busy looking. Which means, by the next posted update (in a week) there will be yet another change. This one will be getting planned out and executed this weekend. It will be less busy, but interesting to watch.

    I’m doing the animated covers because it’s fun to make little tweaks that keep me thinking – what is coming next?

    Sadly, I’ve been learning that some android phones can’t see the animated covers. Then if I put the type of video that google is pushing, it causes Safari for iOS to crash. We’re in 2025 and these stupid device platforms still can’t come together for a 20 second video?!? Enough to make one scream. I have heard that some androids can see it, so all is not lost.

    Here’s the thing: I like tweaking things. Woodshedding them. Getting bit refined. Working better and looking better. As a creatively driven human – that is my jam.

    Stay tuned for more refinements, most of which you may never notice.

  • Next Steps

    Next Steps

    What a wild rush. I’ve been working on so many things in the past month that it’s a literal whirlwind of musical mess.

    My weekly releases are well underway. So far they’re scheduled all the way out into June at this point. Hard to imagine based on the number of years I’ve been in this journey. Once upon a time you spent time creating a full album. Spent even more time working on the marketing, the release, a tour, etc. Now it’s more like constant creation. Which is fuckin hard.

    The largest recent change has been the website. I had roughly 95% of it done when I wrote the last update. As of Monday night 2025/03/10, I got another major bit solved. That bit… being able to load lyrics and song information with a click on the title on any music page.

    Places like Genius, MusixMatch or Lyricfind are awesome resources and I do attempt to keep my lyrics passed along to them. However, what better place to get the actual words I sang on something than right here on my website.

    Beyond the lyrics, for those nerds like myself, there is a plethora of additional information for my songs (not necessarily for any covers I may have released). You can find running time, copyright information, ISRCs, ISWCs, registration codes, etc. It’s the super geeky shit.

    On the underside of the music pages there’s going to be a rotating video background. It’s harder to see on a phone which is fine because it’s probably a bit more distracting than it should be. However, on a desktop or possibly an iPad you get the fuller experience. I will be changing them fairly regularly going forward.

    Still working on the storefront / shop area, but it is in working order.

    Musically speaking, I’m about to be getting full on into 360RA mixes. Those along with all the Dolby mixes I’ve finished will be releasing in the future. Likely towards the end of the year. Immersive music is really damn cool and starting to get really good even for headphones.

    More good things coming…

  • Breaking the Silence

    Breaking the Silence

    One would think that I’ve been off the reservation with how long it’s been since there was a previous update. [you can go to the last news post and see that it was in December 2022, yikes]

    Tempting to say that I was a caterpillar that went into a lengthy two year cocoon, to end up as a butterfly emerging in 2025. Or maybe, a phoenix rising from it’s ashes being born anew. Nah, it’s the caterpillar example.

    The cocoon I was in was the studio. After doing the remixes of the Christmas music, there was a palpable tension hanging around me in regards to the next steps of my music career. Sadly though that tension is still there, I’ve stopped waiting on it; should it come to fruition it will get announced here.

    I opted take on a rather large remix and new mix situation. After experiencing the updated feel of the Christmas songs, it felt silly not to tackle other older material. Applying decades of experience to those recordings, which were done with cutting edge technology then, to improve the quality now. With console software, new audio listening qualities, newer and more refined fx, I’ve taken those old recordings and done to them what I wished could have been done when they were first done.

    This includes cleaning up edits. Improving room sounds, delays and other effects. Now they sound more like records and cohesive.

    Into the new frontier. Along with improving the original stereo releases (and yes that means the old versions will be disappearing from streaming services and no longer sold on physical media) I’ve also updated them with spacial audio mixes.

    You might ask: what is a spacial audio mix Jody.

    Welp, I’m talking Dolby Atmos. Currently making the rounds for some of the music you hear on Apple Music or some other streaming platform. There is also the forthcoming spacial audio called 360RA, it’s in beta and I’m fortunate enough to be testing it out. It’s got a different quality to Atmos. It still works in headphones and man does it make music sound great.

    When those albums get re-released in the coming months and years, they will have animated cover art, and spacial audio mixes to go with. On as many platforms that make use of it.

    The silence got broken a few weeks ago with the release of a version of Do You Want to Play for the Las Vegas Golden Knights. It’s been a substantially long time since I’ve updated those for all the new teams that have sprung up in the last 8 years or so. The largest group is in the G-League which appears to constantly be tweaking itself.

    That means new teams for the NHL (I’m still waiting on Utah’s team to get it’s official name so I can get that one done), the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA, the G-League, MLB and a couple of surprises for a particular school in Utah.

    To wrap up this overly long update, be prepared as there is a lot of material coming and it all sounds great!

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