Cover art is an lp strongpoint. On the digital front one can see read and learn more about music or artists of interest these days as the graphical user interfaces of software controllers continue to evolve and integrate with content and other apps via Internet. So much is possible there already. My squeezebox controller app runs on tablets and provides links to artist album and track info on the allmusic site Wikipedia and others. With my Amazon fire box streaming hi res audio via toslink to my systems dac the display of album art on my hdtv is about the size of an lp cover. Still nothing physical to own and touch though.
Would vinyl even be invented today?
Records, cartridges and tonearms seem like such an unlikely method to play music--a bit of Rube Goldberg. Would anyone even dream of this today? It's like the typewriter keyboard--the version we have may not be the best, but it stays due to the path dependence effect. If vinyl evolved from some crude wax cylinder to a piece of rock careening off walls of vinyl, hasn't it reached the limits of the approach? Not trying to be critical--just trying to get my head around it.
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