Comment by dhosek

It’s really just the idea that having a collection of music that I’ve curated through my own tastes means that I can safely do things like just tell my phone to shuffle all songs and I’ll be happy with what plays. Jason Kottke recently posted the kind of hacky thing he put together to be able to get music he likes playing through a web-based player that manages to combine all the various streaming sources where he gets his music and it seemed really sad that he had to do all that work while I can use my phone/itunes¹ in exactly the same way I did 17 years ago.

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1. Yes it’s now just called “Music” but because “Apple Music” (intentionally, I think) confusingly refers to both the streaming service and the app I use to manage my digital music collection and because damnit, I’m the kind of old person from Chicago who still calls it the Sears Tower/Standard Oil Building/Northwestern Station/Comiskey/etc., I’m gonna still call it iTunes.