i quit streaming

I cancelled my Apple Music subscription the other week and it lapsed four days ago. This is a decision I had been meaning to make for months and just never committed to it because I didn’t want to sacrifice on convenience, but in the end I went through with the cancellation. I had cancelled two months ago but then renewed the subscription because I was faced with the fact that ripping CDs and applying metadata takes time that I wasn’t so keen on doing at the time (because my dumb ass did it shortly after I was burnt out from exam season). Why I decided to go through with this eventually is a combination of things that range from my unwillingness to continue to financially support a parasitical business model to wanting more control over my music library. Artists who are already well-known and/or conform to what’s marketable are the only ones to profit from these platforms’ algorithms, but my choice wasn‘t solely founded in that. If this had been my only issue, I would’ve continued…