This page is for End Up staff and End Up artists. But you’re welcome to read it if you want.

Stationery

End Up stationery is in Pages format. Pages is part of Apple’s iWork suite.

Download End Up stationery

Mailing Labels

These End Up mailing labels should be printed on Avery Label #8163.

Download End Up mailing labels [PDF]

Logo Usage

This document covers basic usage of the End Up logo on packaging and elsewhere.

Download the End Up logo usage guidelines [PDF]

You can download the End Up logo [in Photoshop and Illustrator formats].

Preparing album art for the website

Album art on the End Up site should match the following specs:

• 72dpi
• at least 600×600 pixels
• no more than 800×800 pixels
• high-quality jpeg (keep the file size under 200k)

Preparing MP3s for the End Up Store

Before posting on the End Up store, all digital albums must be properly tagged with track info and album artwork. Follow these steps:

1. Rip your album using iTunes. Before ripping, set iTunes to encode in Apple Lossless format. If you have already ripped your album at a lower bit rate or in a different format, rename the existing album (or just delete it) and re-rip in Apple Lossless format.
2. Tag your album with all relevant metadata. Specifically:
   • Track Name
   • Artist
   • Album Name
   • Year
   • Track 1 of 10, Track 2 of 10, etc.
   • Genre
   • Comments field should read “End Up Records – endup.org”. Feel free to put any other info about your album (recording location, production credits, etc.) in the comments field.

   You can apply most of those tags to the whole album by selecting all your tracks and choosing File > Get Info.

3. Apply album artwork to all tracks.
   • Select all tracks and drag a jpeg to the iTunes artwork panel in the bottom left corner of the window.
   • MP3s can have multiple pieces of artwork. For example, if you want to add artwork for your back cover, drag it in after dragging in the front cover art.
   • Artwork should match the specs in the “Preparing album art for the website” section above.
4. Zip up the album. If you’re on a PC, maybe you know how to make a zip. If you’re on a Mac, do the following:
   • Control-click or right-click on one of your tracks in iTunes and choose “Show in Finder”. That will reveal your audio tracks in the Finder.
   • Control-click or right-click on the album folder in the Finder and choose “Compress Album Name”. (This might read “Create Archive” in some versions of Mac OS X.)
   • Rename the resulting zip file as “artistname-albumname.zip”. That is, make it all lowercase and remove all spaces and punctuation.
   • Email it to you-know-who, or ping me on iChat and pass it to me there.

Preparing MP3s for the Web Playlist

Send your album as Apple Lossless format (using the instructions above) and you-know-who will create lower-bitrate versions for the web playlist.

End Up SKU Numbers

Let Pascal know if you need to add a new item to this list.