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I would really love to try MD: besides the "tactileness" of it, the storage limits imposes to actively curate playlists and make compromises on how much/what music you can carry with you given the circumstances. An iPod classic already has so much storage available that this thought is secondary and you don't have to engage with your music to the same extent.

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Absolutely, and that's something I've tried to highlight in the FAQs on the site - limitation breeds creativity. It makes you appreciate the media just a little bit more.

One of the best places to have MD is in a car. You can quickly identify (by unique color or label) each disc, which is either a full album presented as the artist intended or a playlist you curated. There's no "shuffle all 5000 songs" or "here's a playlist Spotify calls 80s kitchen songs but is half 90s pop you've heard before"

The other place I've thought I'd like to go back to MD is just sitting in bed and listening to some music.

I don't want to fiddle with my phone and get blasted by light from the screen.

I don't want to swipe through an infinite list of all music known to man.

I don't want to wait for an app to update, page to load, song to buffer or pop-up upselling me to need to be dismissed.

I want to listen to music I own, on a device I own, which instantly responds when I press play. That's it.

All 100% true. Just watch out for dead batteries (especially rechargables, because there are no Low Self Discharge Ni-MH gumsticks)

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