CDs I bought, the massive trove of albums I’ve ripped from friends and library CDs since around 1997 and everything dl’d from Spotify and more recently Tidal (switched not only because ethics and quality - mostly because spotify-dl started breaking up :o) now lives on my home server, backs up once a week and is available to grooving to via Jellyfin over the Net. So much debt of gratitude to Jellyfin for enabling this.

At home I’ll plug the phone into a USB Toslink box and play lossless over the speakers; in the car over Bluetooth into car stereo (which has seen a little bespoke work). Headphones I haven’t bought into, I’d rather be in the moment with all senses when out and about. Same goes for motorcycle riding, music is too much of a distraction.

New music comes along by following Pitchfork’s album reviews. They are pushed out to RSS so that I browse them over morning coffee.

There is no such thing as a favourite band when one really listens to music. I get kicks from still discovering new stuff at a ripe age. One newish band that blew my mind is black midi.