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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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