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The timing of this story is interesting to me because my Apple Music subscription is set to end today. On the one hand, I've really enjoyed the service as it ha
by freetime2 9y ago
The timing of this story is interesting to me because my Apple Music subscription is set to end today. On the one hand, I've really enjoyed the service as it has allowed me to discover many new artists and even genres that I like. On the other hand, I can really identify with the author when he says that "all music is becoming Muzak".
The turning point for me happened recently on a road trip when I opened up my music library and tried to find something to play. While I have "liked" a large number of songs and albums in the last year which now show up in my "library", it turns out that the majority of them are not something that I would choose to go back to after a listen or two. I can't even remember what a surprising number of albums in my library are! And so it happened that with my library of 130-ish new albums that I've added in the past year, I couldn't find anything that I wanted to listen to, and listened to the radio instead.
My plan is to take the $10/mo that I was spending on my subscription, buy a new album every month or two, and really listen to it before moving on to the next new thing.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI struggled with this in the first few months of my Spotify subscription. The solution is to be a lot more critical about which songs you save. All of those other songs are still there, you can find them quickly if you want to listen to them again. But your saved songs should be the absolute favorites. After 6 months, I have 718 saved tracks, and the rate at which I add new songs has significantly tapered off. I occasionally stumble across a song that makes me go "why did I save that?", and off the list it goes.