Trying to organise my music now does my head in. Years ago it was simple. Buy CD, put on shelf, play CD.
Now we have the time consuming process of ripping and retagging etc. I bought a program to sort out all the errors on iTunes and it messed things up too. Songs wrongly named or categorised. What a nightmare.
And after all that you still have a huge compromise in sound quality. Lets face it, if you rip at lossless you have huge file sizes that won't play on many devices - so most of the time it is a lossy fie.
I end up listening to Spotify or Amazon Prime on my crappy laptop or phone speakers so I am as guilty as anyone. But I do feel that as musicians we should be railing against digital music as it currently stands.
It encourages lazy listening habits and generally distributes with inferior sound quality. And it undoes a lot of the work we all do to make our tracks sound the best they can! Not even considering the whole remuneration issue!
I kind of feel that iTunes is a bit like how I used to look at Line 6 modelling products.Convenient, flashy - cheap and easy. But plastic, hollow and tinny. Disposable.
No wonder vinyl has made a comeback.