Music

starting to get over vinyl. what someone should make are little coaster-sized chips with album art on them so a device can look up the album and stream it instantly in lossless. would evoke the tactility of manually selecting music without taking up a bunch of space.

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

For many people the big cover art is part of the charm, but also you must to remember: a lot of modern music on vinyl is mastered better than the digital version. A Minidisc or a simple CD/SACD would a better option if you still want to have a physical media.

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The preference over CD would be that you could in theory tap a few albums to this device and create a queue. Not knowledgeable enough to speak to sound quality. That would be unfortunate if true. I wonder how common this mastering problem is.

Almost all music from 1991 to today is plagued by one or more things like excessive dynamic compression, limiting, clipping, also often with intersample peaks and sometimes other problems like restricted stereo imaging, DC offset and phase issues, awful EQ choices, too much bass bloated...