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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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I've grown content with not having to store my music for listening. And I hate to admit it but I have gotten bad at finding new and Spotify us all like " you like this, check this out. That said my listening is done at work and while driving. If I want music at home I pick an instrument and play some. But saying there's too much access to music is horseshit. Everyone gets something different out of music, and it's nobody's business but theirs what that is. Even if it is just background noise. You want to know why a song exists, I'm picking apart the chord structure and lyrical devices. Or giving my day theme music. Or maybe just knowing that today was a good day.
Yep and thats fine. I also just like to own my music and not have it solely controlled by billionaires.
Nothing wrong with some zone out stuff during work. Soma FM or bandcamp ambient artists are great for that. I can't listen to really engaging music while working usually.
Oh, I sing out loud to every song I know the words of. I work in a factory. Most of my work takes more back than brain. I will also genre flop several times over a day. Sometimes I listen to whole records, but other times I enjoy themed playlists. I don't own enough hard drive to contain my listening, my phone sure couldn't hold it all. And say I get a suggestion from a coworker or if I have to unload a delivery and the truck driver mentions a band I never heard of, I look it up on Spotify, and I have only managed to stump it once. I can't argue with that.
Ever since the mp3.com forum conversations back in the 90s: more access drives more consumption. More consumption drives more demand. People who get used to listening to more music, want more music to listen to.
Yes, and?