Recently, I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to fix a bug that assigned the wrong images to albums in my digital collection. I’m talking months.
Why, I kept asking myself, through innumerable pointless software updates and support message chains, should this matter at all. These images are just thumbnails anyway. The artists and titles remained correct; the tracks all still played.
Yet the situation was unsettling. Listening to an album by Helado Negro by clicking on the image of an album by Fabrizio de André (for some reason, most of the album covers in my digital collection had been replaced with releases by Fabrizio de André) was… discordant. Especially when I downloaded music which I didn’t yet know. As I listened, the image I formed of these new albums kept merging with images of Fabrizio de André.
