How the Streaming Era Turned Music Into Sludge

Morgan Meaker

2023年4月21日

The launch of the iTunes Store 20 years ago laid the groundwork for platforms to transform songs into generic background noise.

I woke up one day last year and realized I no longer listened to music. Instead I just listened to sludgea blur of indistinguishable songs that imitated my music taste. My sludge addiction sprang fro… https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-how-the-streaming-era-turned-music-into-sludge/