Discovering New Music in 2024
Apple Music has a crazy policy: 90 days after you unsubscribe, they delete the library of music you've curated over time and provide no way to get it back, even if you rejoin the platform. In contrast, I've been able to return to years-old Spotify and YouTube Music playlists and find them completely intact. Apple's decision to take this wild, user-hostile stance is pretty lame.
I unsubscribed from Apple Music a while back, before I realised this policy existed. And knowing about it has kept me away from the service since then—but lo and behold (insert clown make-up meme), I recently succumbed and re-joined, mostly because competing services seem to struggle with CarPlay.
Looking at my depressingly barren Apple Music Library, I thought about trying to rebuild the music collection I'd once had there. The effort it would take to remember every artist, every album, and manually add them to my library.
And I decided not to.
Instead of trawling through the classics and old favourites, I realised it would be more fun and interesting to devote 2024 entirely to listening to music I'd never heard before, and see what my library ends up looking like. While there's plenty of music I already know I love, I do get the feeling I rely too much on listening to the same old stuff, when there's a world of music out there.
I'll try to update this blog semi-regularly (maybe monthly) with what I've discovered along the way. Time to discover some new favourites and find some future classics!