[yarcob]

I care about album art and am frustrated with both Apple and Spotify. Does anyone have suggestions where I should direct my buying power so I can listen to music and view high res album art?

[peruvian]

Purchase digital albums via the label or Bandcamp, which come with the art either in the directory or already tagged. Use a third party music player.

[yarcob]

> Use a third party music player.

Any recommendations?

[AlexandrB]

I use SongOwl on iOS. The interface is much nicer than the Apple Music app, but it still depends on iTunes/Music for syncing music from your computer.

[claudiawerner]

Open source: Clementine (and a fork, Strawberry), mpd (and ncmpcpp/Cantata/vimpc), Deadbeef, Sayonara

Closed source: foobar2000

[res0nat0r]

Buy vinyl on discogs.com, or vinyl from any of your other favorite online retailer.

[yarcob]

I buy Vinyl, but most new Vinyl releases suck. They just stuff a bunch of songs on 3 or 4 sides that end up half empty, so you need to flip the record all the time.

[res0nat0r]

Vinyl has always had this shorter time length.

> A standard 12-inch 33 RPM vinyl record can have a playtime of roughly 22 minutes per side for a total of 44 minutes. A 7-inch 45 RPM record can fit approximately 5 minutes per side for a total of 10 minutes. Generally, any longer, the sound quality would start to deteriorate.

https://peakvinyl.com/record-playtimes/

[yarcob]

On classic vinyl releases you got a single record with roughly 20 minutes of music on each side. They recorded the album so it fit nicely on two sides.

With new releases the vinyl is usually an afterthought, so it usually doesn't fit nicely on two sides, so they just throw an extra disc in the sleeve and spread the songs evenly and you end up with 3 or 4 sides with 12-15 min music on them.

[res0nat0r]

This is good though. A double or triple 180 gram vinyl is better than one album squeezed on a single disc.