I remember record collections - they were before my time but the older generation still had them. Music discovery was delightful, you’d comb through a stack of music and find something you’d never heard before, drop it on the record player, and listen cover to cover.<p>Record collections, libraries, etc. all gave me this feeling - of spontaneous, unguided, content discovery. Where you’d find little known content on the shelf right next to a household name. Nobody competing for your attention, nobody trying to “buy” their way into your attention span. You’d discover something interesting, sit down, and lose yourself in it.<p>It’s part of what made me build <a href="https://audile.app" rel="nofollow">https://audile.app</a>, I wanted to spontaneously discover music I’d never find through modern distribution channels. It’s just Math.random() on top of Deezer’s catalogue. I tried to treat Deezer as a “record collection” and spontaneously/randomly discover content in the collection in a similar way as picking a random shelf and combing through the stack of records.<p>I think I’m the only one using it, and it’s still missing something, but it’s the closest to scratching that itch I’ve gotten so far.