Jacket App

I’ve written at length about my search for the perfect digital music app. I’ve spent too much time, trialling every app and streaming service I find, and wasting hours trying to coax Qobuz into being ‘the one’ with CSS (only to find they use Tailwind, and lack enough semantic hooks). It’s more of a sad indictment of my obsessive brain, than the quality of app choices out there though. I can't just pick one and get on with my life it seems. Except now, there's a new app called 'Jacket', named after the thing the record sleeve goes into, that fulfils all but two of my niche criteria. It offers much more, and it's the closest any app has come. Here’s an overview of its features: Interleaves my own digital library on Navidrome, with streaming from Apple Music, and shows large album artwork, without an extra action to trigger an 'immersive mode': Supports album collections: Shows enriching data from Musicbrainz, last.fm and Wikipedia. I can read about the albums and their artists, with…