I remember record collections - they were before my time but the older generation still had them. Music discovery was delightful, you’d comb through a stack of

I remember record collections - they were before my time but the older generation still had them. Music discovery was delightful, you’d comb through a stack of music and find something you’d never heard before, drop it on the record player, and listen cover to cover. Record collections, libraries, etc. all gave me this feeling - of spontaneous, unguided, content discovery. Where you’d find little known content on the shelf right next to a household name. Nobody competing for your attention, nobody trying to “buy” their way into your attention span. You’d discover something interesting, sit down, and lose yourself in it. It’s part of what made me build https://audile.app https://audile.app, I wanted to spontaneously discover music I’d never find through modern distribution channels. It’s just Math.random() on top of Deezer’s catalogue. I tried to treat Deezer as a “record collection” and spontaneously/randomly discover content in the collection in a similar way as picking a random shelf and combing through the stack of records. I think I’m the only one using it, and it’s still missing something, but it’s the closest to scratching that itch I’ve gotten so far.