> I'll also add that I guess for me music listening is about intentionality. I'm not a big fan of just having ambient music on with no intention behind it, no f

> I'll also add that I guess for me music listening is about intentionality. I'm not a big fan of just having ambient music on with no intention behind it, no focus towards it. Yeah, I never understood the appeal of streaming services like Spotify. Usually when I want background music playing for working, I want to play things I already know very well so they don't distract me. For this, Spotify isn't great and has big gaps in its library - it doesn't even have all studio albums available of my favorite bands (with live catalog being hopelessly incomplete), and I'm talking about "huge superstar 80s rock bands" rather than "some unknown indie stuff". Also, I can't really put it on where network connection is spotty, like on a train. And when it comes to listening to new stuff, I still have physical CDs waiting to be unpacked, ripped and properly listened to. Of course, some of them you won't find on Spotify either. Maybe if you had a habit of listening to music on actual radio stations then Spotify may seem appealing. I never did, I started with portable MP3 players when I was a child. These days, when having hundreds of gigabytes of lossless music on my phone is just a matter of putting a cheap SD card into it and synchronizing between devices is a matter of single rsync call, I don't see why would I attach myself to some network service when all my music is literally here with me in my pocket.