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A smaller, personally curated music collection is far better than unlimited streaming
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this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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On thing I miss is listening to full albums, i.e. you put on an album, listen to all the tracks from beginning to end in the order the artist intended. I know you still can listen to full albums now, but most software is designed these days around individual tracks and it loses something. Sometimes a well put together album can be better than the sum of its parts.
Never subscribed to a streaming service myself, I don't see the appeal of listening to (and potentially becoming emotionally attached to) music I don't actually own and could lose some day.
I pretty much only listen to albums. I enjoy the cohesiveness. Jumping around in shuffle is fine for like parties I guess. Not for me.
I use Apple Music and that is very album centric. You can add entire albums to your library and browse you library using an album view.
A lot of software will do that if all your music is correctly (and consistently) tagged. Depending on where you get it though it often isn't, and it's a lot of manual work getting all your music files tagged in a standard way.
I stream plenty but that is one of the reasons I like vinyl. Pretty much forced to listen to the album.
Some albums were meant to be listened to beginning to end, particularly starting around the Alan Parsons Abbey Road / Darkside era.
Some albums were meant to be listened to with a few songs removed.
Some albums should never have been published - the world would be much happier with a single and a B-side living the illusion that the artist can someday produce more of the same brilliance - rather than hearing proof that they didn't.
When Pandora was $30 per year, I subscribed - when they started going to monthly only I dropped.
I don't need, or want, an unlimited streaming service with instant access to all the world's music. I do want access to probably 100,000+ songs of my choosing, and I do not want anything shoving stuff at me on heavy rotation because somebody paid it to.