> I love opening an app and just seeing album covers. I dunno, maybe I'm crazy. I feel the same way, something fun about knowing my digital rips are the exact

> I love opening an app and just seeing album covers. I dunno, maybe I'm crazy. I feel the same way, something fun about knowing my digital rips are the exact same edition as the physical object I can go pick up off my shelf instead of an album being some nebulous thing that might have extra tracks or a different mix depending on how I listen to it. I always type out my discs' catalog number in the Comments tag of my rip for that reason. Also the predictability that my music will never disappear due to losing some distribution license (learned this lesson with Rdio), that I can never be out of network range, and that it is incapable of spying on me because it is incapable of using the network at all. I love the combo of old would-otherwise-be-ewaste Android phone + Musicolet + yuge SD card + my own CD rips for music in my car: https://i.imgur.com/HSSouVT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HSSouVT.jpg