On Quitting Spotify - by Izzy Ampil - Reboot

Every music obsessive I know hates Spotify; nearly every music obsessive I know is also on there pretty much all the time. I myself have been using Spotify for more than a decade (check out this playlist I made when I was 14!), but even though I’ve made like 600 playlists on there I’ve never exactly felt comfortable with the platform and how it has shaped my experience of listening to music. That’s why I was so excited when Izzy Ampil pitched me this story on quitting Spotify in favor of CDs & radio. It’s a love letter to complex, friction-heavy modes of listening – of what the idiosyncrasies of different music technologies do for our appreciation of music. There is also a sick playlist at the end. Also, if you’re in SF, we’ll be at Lit Crawl today (Saturday 10/21)! We’ll be reading at Noisebridge from 6:30-7:30pm. Come say hi! —Jacob Kuppermann, Reboot Editorial Board By Izzy Ampil In May, I burst into lunch full of ideas. I was going to quit Spotify, I told my boyfriend, because I’d

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