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>Spotify is extremely biased towards playlist listening and makes browsing and listening to a library of albums really painful. Does anyone else get a dystopian vibe from this statement? I feel like the old guy in the SF movie pulling his hair and exclaiming, "But what have we lost?!" We used to have vinyl, tapes, finally CDs, and even the ability to rip our library to a computer, which we could carry with us. It was…
> "But what have we lost?!" make a comment or thread about spotify/pandora/tidal and sit back and wait to see how long it takes for some “audiophile” to come along and to admonish you and tell you a story about their setup and music appreciation “workflow” and how it is better and somehow more correct. we lost nothing. it is all still here. and, apparently, the added bonus of droves of sweaty people telling you you’r…
Nor am I claiming I'm more correct (although I guess I'm pretty proud of having found a somewhat contrarian path to take the trade-offs I think matter most.) You want to listen to spotify on your phone and bt headphones - all of which is subject to decay, decay of money, battery, connectivity - meanwhile I'll listen to my library with wired components that run smoothly and no latency without drops or a monthly bill. You get all-in-one go anywhere convenience, I get old school tactile control. Neither of us is doing it wrong. But yeah, I like mine better which is why I do it that way (and I assume the same is true for you, unless you're a masochist, and if so I say great, keeping doing you.)