My mp3 days are over I think. I did move to them exclusively for most of a decade, as I ripped my entire CD collection over a several week period about 18 years

My mp3 days are over I think. I did move to them exclusively for most of a decade, as I ripped my entire CD collection over a several week period about 18 years ago, and then used that. I went through various software players - Winamp and Xmms for a while, Quod Libet later. Various hardware players too, an Archos, car stereos, Sonos kit, various phones. But now the collection lives on a file server and is rarely ever touched, I don't even bother putting it on newer phones because I have spotify. I have recently thought that I miss the careful-curation aspect of things. A collection used to be yours and yours alone, having access to certain music was somehow special and meaningful. But that was a side-effect of scarcity and the physical nature of music; money was limited and each album was a chunk of cash. Now I can listen to anything, whenever. My experience is different... but I don't think it's worse. I can listen to anything I can think of.