This takes a little bit of effort, but I’ve always preferred to listen to music in the order I want to. Sometimes, in the order than the artist wants me to. While streaming can help find new artists to listen to, storage is basically free. The iPod’s dream of carrying your record collection in your hand came true long ago. And it’s not an incremental charge to my phone.

Purists can make their own rips at higher quality or whatever, but my hearing is far too bad for that. But at least I like my music at the tempo/pitch I remember it as.