I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout and honestly, I think we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age

Split image of a black iPod nano 2006 in person's hand (left) and a man sat on a sofa looking at the nano's screen listening through wired headphones (right).

I've had a Spotify premium account long enough to be hit with multiple price hikes from my original, stable subscription plan.

Throughout those years, the streaming platform has defined how and what music I listened to, mostly for the better, though in some ways for the worse; it could be my stage of life, but I don't feel music like I used to.