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Maintaining A Music Library, Ten Years On

Like so many technologies of the early web that we've now nearly lost or forgotten, it's flaws are real... [but] it's a very human, not algorithmic world, and I love it.

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Maintaining A Music Library,

Ten Years On

It took me by surprise to learn that this post was now a decade old:


Last week I decided to leave Spotify. I've been using the service for almost 2 years now, and overall I've really liked it... It's hard to explain why [I'm leaving], but I guess I feel apprehensive about Spotify being in control of how and where I listen to music in ways I haven't been before.


I remember the inciting incident so viscerally. I wanted to AirPlay a song to my TV, but that device wasn't "approved by Spotify". It's an MP3 and I couldn't jam out to it because of the policies of some company. I was so angry, so I left. Without a viable alternative, I started buying albums in the iTunes Store like it was 2007 all over again.


It's been ten years now, and I do not regret that choice for a minute...


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