[nreilly]

I suspect they wouldn't go to the effort in supporting animated cover art[0] if they didn't care.

[0] https://music.apple.com/us/album/gigaton/1495371272

[austinkhale]

Is there a name for this style of animation? Where it’s essentially a static image but with one part animated?

[xsmasher]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/

[jimmux]

There's no animation in that link for me, but it sounds like you're describing a cinemagraph.

[vestrigi]

They‘re apparently not caring a whole lot. If you play that a song from that album it will show the static cover art. Also it seems to me like the bigger ‘full screen’ like artworks are reserved to major labels or at least come at a premium.