Categories
Uncategorized

Album art vs. search box

I’ve been using Spotify for a long time now, practically from the beginning it was available in Finland. Today I unsubscribed. Why? Glad you asked!

About a year ago when iTunes Match became available in Finland I began my epic quest of ripping all of my CDs into m4a format. I imported every single CD I could find in this household (yes, even the embarrassing 90’s stuff) and subscribed to iTunes Match. The process was a bit numbing and labor intensive, yet quite painless. Then I practically forgot about iTunes Match and continued to listen to music on Spotify.

But today it hit me; I seem to listen to same artists and playlists time and time again in Spotify. It’s not that I wouldn’t enjoy other music, it’s just that with Spotify, finding new music has been awfully hard for me. In fact, even finding old-to-me music has been hard because of my lousy memory! After short introspection it became clear to me: finding music on Spotify is quite like trying to order food from a restaurant that doesn’t have a menu. Instead of asking the waitress whether they serve AC/DC, I’d rather glance through the record shelf looking for meatballs & pasta. iTunes presents me my modest record collection (650 albums) in a neatly browsable format where it’s easy for me to find out what I’d like to listen today. I love album art and it breaks my heart that physical music media is going away and flipping through album covers beats an empty search box any given day.

Comments are closed.