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For other uses, see Album (disambiguation).

An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public.

The term "record album" originated from the fact that 78 RPM gramophone or phonograph disc records were kept together in a book resembling a photo album. Later, "album" came to refer to a single long-playing 33⅓ RPM 12-inch record of songs or music, since one disc contained as much music as an old-style album of records. The standard industry format for popular music was an album of 12 songs, originally the number related to payment of composer royalties.

Now that the vinyl record is archaic, the term "album" is applied to any collection sound recording, including CD, MiniDisc, and cassette. Even a set of tracks released at the same time for distribution on an online music download site is sometimes referred to as an album.

Due to the large capacity of new media, the matter of how long an album should be is open to debate. One author suggested at least eight tracks, but there are albums of fewer tracks. According to the rules of the British Charts, a recording counts as an album if either it has at least four tracks or lasts more than 20 minutes. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as EPs, an abbreviation of extended play. The term "mini-album" may also be used.

Returning to the older meaning of the term, there are now albums of compact discs: collections of CDs in a single package. If such a collection is packaged in a box, it is known as a box set.

See also

• Concept album
• Double album
• List of albums
• Single

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A frame or framework is a structural skeleton, which supports the other components of the object. It is used in this basic sense in art, construction, and mechanical engineering, and the expression 'frame' for eyeglasses.

• in art, a picture frame is a solid border around a picture or painting
• a space frame in construction
• a beehive frame
• in mechanical engineering, a bicycle frame, for instance
• frames are often called after a shape they resemble, e.g. an A-frame, often used as a caning -, whipping - or flogging frame, used for securing the victim of physical punishment (either standing with his hands tied where the side bars meet above him, or to bend over the shorter cross-bar)

The word also has many extended, metaphorical meanings in various fields:

• in spinning, a frame is a mechanical device with many spindles for spinning multiple threads simultaneously, as in spinning frame, dressing frame, or water frame
• one of the film frames or video frames composing a film or video
  • a complete image, or the set of all picture elements representing it, in video display
  • in video compression different frames –- called I-frames, P-frames, B-frames, and D-frames –- are used for motion compensation
• reframing in film and programming
• in telecommunications, a data frame is a transmitted packet
• in computer science, a stack frame
• the frame element in HTML; see HTML element#Frames
• the frame problem in artificial intelligence, a data structure for representing a stereotyped situation
• Semantic frames in cognitive science, linguistics, or communication theory
• a frame tale in literature
• a narrative frame in literature, film, or storytelling
• a frame of reference in physics
• in mathematics, a frame is an abstract concept on a manifold, generalising frame of reference to a basis for the tangent bundle varying from point to point. See vierbein for an orthonormal frame. Also projective frame.
• also in mathematics, a frame can refer to a complete Heyting algebra
• each player's turn in bowling games
• the connection between lead and follow in partner dancing. See frame (dance)
• in law, to frame someone is to make it look as if they committed a crime when they in fact did not commit said crime, as in the title of the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• in psychology, reframing (psychology)

The Frames is also the name of an Irish rock band, fronted by Glen Hansard.

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