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My CD collection of about a thousand albums stopped being added to abruptly in around 2008 when I started downloading and streaming. At that point my iTunes library consisted mainly of stuff ripped from CD. I'd probably done around 70% of my collection. I switched over to Spotify and used iTunes less and less until I found listened to almost all of my music on Spotify. The CDs have been in the attic for about 5 years now.
I wanted to listen to something that wasn't on Spotify at the weekend and opened up iTunes for the first time in ages. Was immediately struck by how varied my old library was. And so much stuff not available on streaming services. All that Drag City goodness for a start! Seems like the Spotify algorithms have been chipping away at the more esoteric edges of my taste and subtly steering me back to the same kind of things again and again. It was a bit of a wake-up-call to be honest.
Think i'm going to get the CDs out and make sure I've ripped all of them before having a bit of a rethink about how I consume digital music again...