I personally love my collection (records, CD, digital) and enjoy sharing the experience with friends. I don’t use streaming unless you count soma fm at work. Sure, I’ll use YouTube to listen to some albums I don’t own, but if I truly like it I’ll buy or download it, usually on bandcamp or direct from artist if I can.

For me, I don’t believe the human brain was ever made for this level of stimulation (we shouldn’t really have 24/7 access to social media either. Go back to the “family PC” model). People have very little connection to music anymore becuase there’s too much and its too easy to access. I can barely remember all the members names in my favorite bands or all their albums. There’s little chance anyone even knows the artists of the millions of songs they’re streaming, or the story behind them.

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    5 hours ago

    most software is designed these days around individual tracks and it loses something.

    I use Apple Music and that is very album centric. You can add entire albums to your library and browse you library using an album view.

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      3 hours ago

      A lot of software will do that if all your music is correctly (and consistently) tagged. Depending on where you get it though it often isn’t, and it’s a lot of manual work getting all your music files tagged in a standard way.