Making it five years in a row. This year’s list is the most excessive of all: Over nine hours of music. And I’ve probably forgotten to add some tracks I’ve called out in my quarterly album round-ups. There has been a ridiculous amount of good music again this year.

I have absolutely loved doing this, although my self-imposed (soft) rule of “only listening to music that has been released this year” is perhaps a tad restrictive. As has been trying to keep up with The Line of Best Fit’s New Music Discovery playlist every week (found some great artists though!). So next year I’m going to try something different. Spotify is just a bit shitty. Unfortunately I can’t get rid of it because of paying for a family plan, but for my personal use next year I’m going to give Cantilever a whirl instead. And as mentioned in that post, I’m hoping it fulfils my new music fix, but “more slowly”. I know I’m going to miss some great artists and songs as a result, but that is always the case anyway.

The downside of this though is just how great Spotify Connect and the Rust ecosystem support is. It’s just soooo ace to be able to run spotifyd on my laptop and control what’s playing from my phone or use ncspot for a full terminal experience. Maybe I can figure out an alternative that works with Cantilever?