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.

isn't the acoustic profile of vinyl also something people want? or not really?

My intuition is that they like collecting and showcasing objects more than the actual acoustics. I just realized that my setup as the vinyl going to digital instantly and I’d bet you dinner that the quality is strictly worse than lossless streaming.

Some colleagues are telling me that this is already roughly possible with shortcuts and off the shelf nfc tags. Might endeavor a DIY project here. If successful will jettison the record setup.

yeah I agree that the the draw is largely aesthetic, in which case your idea is really cool

I don't know what model is, but usually vinyl players with USB out, DAC and integrated phono stage are crap. No wonder why sounds worse than average streaming music. The difference with a proper setup is huge.