{"id":18859,"date":"2025-05-19T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/the-one-change-that-worked-ive-ditched-streaming-for-cds-and-fallen-in-love-with-music-all-over-again\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:37:29","slug":"the-one-change-that-worked-ive-ditched-streaming-for-cds-and-fallen-in-love-with-music-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/the-one-change-that-worked-ive-ditched-streaming-for-cds-and-fallen-in-love-with-music-all-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The one change that worked: I\u2019ve ditched streaming for CDs \u2013 and fallen in love with music all over again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn\u2019t enjoy, I\u2019ve taken back control of my listening<\/p>\n

When most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make do with Burger King Unwrapped, delivered to me via their app, which told me how many Burger Kings I\u2019d eaten that year (a solitary Whopper meal in July). You see, I\u2019ve stopped streaming music, which, in this modern day and age, seems frankly weird. But hear me out. I\u2019ve gone back to buying CDs, and it\u2019s made me fall in love with music all over again.<\/p>\n

I listen to music all day, every day. I can\u2019t work without music in the background, or consider doing the washing up without some tunes to groove to. Traditionally, I\u2019d buy albums on CDs or vinyl, and listen to them over and over until I was bored to death with them, by which time I\u2019d hopefully have bought another album. It\u2019s apparently a very annoying habit: as a student (way before the days of Spotify), one housemate was so utterly exasperated with me blasting Urban Hymns by the Verve<\/a> around the house that they barged into my room, ejected the CD and flung it out the window.<\/p>\n

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\nThe lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn\u2019t enjoy, I\u2019ve taken back control of my listening
\nWhen most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make do with Burger King Unwrapped, delivered to me via their app, which told me how many Burger Kings I\u2019d eaten that year (a solitary Whopper meal in July). You see, I\u2019ve stopped streaming music, which, in this modern day and age, seems frankly weird. But hear me out. I\u2019ve gone back to buying CDs, and it\u2019s made me fall in love with music all over again.
\nI listen to music all day, every day. I can\u2019t work without music in the background, or consider doing the washing up without some tunes to groove to. Traditionally, I\u2019d buy albums on CDs or vinyl, and listen to them over and over until I was bored to death with them, by which time I\u2019d hopefully have bought another album. It\u2019s apparently a very annoying habit: as a student (way before the days of Spotify), one housemate was so utterly exasperated with me blasting Urban Hymns by the Verve around the house that they barged into my room, ejected the CD and flung it out the window. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn\u2019t enjoy, I\u2019ve taken back control of my listening When most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make …<\/p>\n

The one change that worked: I\u2019ve ditched streaming for CDs \u2013 and fallen in love with music all over again<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}