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CDs still sound better than vinyl, but I'm a sucker for that big cover art and like the ceremony of records so I have a small record collection.

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I'm honestly really annoyed that streaming doesn't have a better cover art story. Like, it seems like it should be such an easy thing to arrange it so if I'm listening to an album I can see the album cover in high resolution and full screen on my device, and afaict Spotify doesn't offer this at all.

If any Tesla engineer is reading this please change it in the Tesla. I want the road on one side of the screen and a big huge cover art of what I'm listening to on the other side, big enough for everyone in the car to see as we drive. It's a huge missed opportunity. Right now we get a tiny postage stamp of the cover art and a meaningless track list in text.

https://i.redd.it/vcp3nr7ibje21.jpg

This is an abomination.

This is why I got into vinyl; I love the art. I have streaming available in every room via Alexa devices but I do enjoy the experience of vinyl when I’m being intentional about my music listening.

Between the art and the tactile experience vinyl requires, I like it for active vs passive listening.

So you are really just buying the cover art.

There's something about using Vinyl that's unique among the physical media. I abandoned all physical media early on, I'm thinking like early early 2000s, but the past few years I've been collecting Vinyls. I find it soothing to throw on a record and eat dinner or put together some legos. I can't explain it and I don't think its better in any way other than the comfort it provides me. lol

I read all my books on an ereader but still buy my favourites in dead-tree format for my shelf.

A friend explained to me recently- if someone comes over to your house, and you want to listen to music, it’s hard to know everyone will enjoy it. If you pick something off spotify, they might not like that kind of music, or vice versa.

But if you have a record collection, they can browse and pick something they know you already enjoy, because you own it.

Idea: A shelf full of just album covers with an RFID sticker inside. Someone picks the one they like and just lays it on top of a nearby table which has a sensor and begins to play the music from Spotify.

I did this five years ago:

https://www.edmstudio.com/news/faux-vinyl-experience-spotify...

This is a great idea!

If I implement it, I'll probably take the Linux route and use MPD/MPC on my desktop. Or maybe control Clementine through QDBus (since I use this media player on KDE anyway).

Note the video is no longer working.

The video was playing music and Vimeo took it down due to copyright infringement :(

If I was to do this again I’d do away with the Mac mini and use a raspberry pi plus a Spotify daemon. I still have all the cards I made but no time to figure out the physical stuff anymore.

There are already several implementations of this great idea.

The "from Spotify" part makes this dystopian. Have the music be local.

Here's a refinement of that idea for vinyl nuts: blank rfid-enabled vinyls that you must physically lower the needle into, which triggers a hard disk recorder to play its saved FLACs. How's that for a "tactile experience"?

(I suspect that a true vinyl nut would hate this idea but not be able to articulate why)

When I host parties I leave an iPad out and let people buy any song they want to play on my dime. People seem to enjoy it and there's lots of different/interesting stuff in my collection now.

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