Never realized how discovering new music changed in the digital era. With CDs, you listened to albums, tracks in order, and most of the time, if you liked it you could go back in time and listen to all the previous album chronologically to see the evolution of the artist.

With digital platforms, you have a top of tracks for the artists and you listen to the most streamed songs. The advantage, imo, is that you can capture the essence of the legacy of the artists by listening to their top tracks because it summarizes what people love about them.

The downside is, you miss on the architecture of the albums, the artistic choices that are made throughout time, the evolutions of the artists.

But what I miss the most is the little white noise, at the end of the last track of a CD, and the feeling of emptiness you have after listening to a good album. The same feeling you get when closing a good book for the last time after reading it.

Sometimes, it’s those moments of emptiness that make you feel alive.

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