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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by UncleMeat on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:26AM (#25477936)
Cover art has virtually nothing to do with quality (and is accessible on spotify). How much money did you pay for records that you ended up not liking?

It is so easy to expose yourself to new music on spotify. Far easier than relying on whatever handful of records happened to be in the listening station.

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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by schwartzworld on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:11PM (#25481737)
> Cover art has virtually nothing to do with quality

Fair enough, and yet I probably never would have listened to "Chocolate and Cheese" without seeing the album in front of me.

> (and is accessible on spotify).

It's not the same. Come on.

> It is so easy to expose yourself to new music on spotify. Far easier than relying on whatever handful of records happened to be in the listening station

I agree, and yet, something about choosing from albums curated by store staff felt better to me than being fed music curated by an algorithm like a goose being stuffed for fois gras.

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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by UncleMeat on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:04PM (#25483473)
> It's not the same. Come on.

I never bought records, only CDs. My memory is small and low resolution cover art. Browsing album covers on spotify on anything bigger than a tablet will show the art at a bigger scale with better colors.

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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by schwartzworld on Sunday December 20, 2020 @05:48AM (#25485340)
It's not the size. It's tangibility. Album art on Spotify is metadata. It's incidental. I don't notice it. On a CD it's part of the presentation.
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