I’ve never been able to replicate my music discovery and listening habits that I had with the iPod. I’d download entire albums and listen to them all the way through. Sometimes I’d listen to an album 5 times and it wouldn’t click. Then some random day I’d hear it again and I’d realize every song was genius. I loved loading that thing with new albums.

Now, with streaming I just kind of drift around from one song to the next. I find some good stuff, but my approach feels less systematic and I don’t really have a good grasp on which artist are which. Sometimes the recommendations just all sound the same and I don’t really get to go through all the songs in an album. It’s less about building a music collection that’s yours and more like listening to the radio.