[kirajackson]

In the last part of the 80s I was super-eager to have a sound system with two cassette players and a CD player that could record from CD to tape, or tape-to-tape. I could take pretty much anything in my music collection* and use it to add to a blend tape for companions or only for my own happiness.

During the 90s and 2000s I could simply make a blend CD for my companions from CDs or MP3s and offer that.

In principle it ought to be simpler than at any other time to make blends to impart to companions yet the balkanization of music administrations, configurations and music players implies that it's superfluously hard to make a blend and offer it with others. For instance, you can make a Spotify playlist however that requires the beneficiary to have Spotify and for all the music to be on Spotify. (What's more, remain there. It's normal for melodies to vanish from Spotify and leave openings in playlists.) Lots of collections and tunes have never made it to Spotify (for example, numerous Rollins Band, Robyn Hitchcock, and a couple of XTC collections never made it - to make reference to simply some more standard music that is not there).

I realize that people in this sub are almost certainly to be into dark music that is not on Spotify, Apple Music, and so on, and likely more intrigued than most in sharing blends in with companions or simply making blends to burn-through themselves. So how are you getting along that nowadays, or is this simply a little delight of the past that is passed by the wayside to stay away forever?