Remember when Spotify just played the song you asked for instead of algorithmically shepherding you toward whatever major-label playlist pays for placement, and you could actually *own* a music library instead of renting access to a catalogue that shrinks every time a licensing deal expires? I still have a 2009 iPod Classic in a drawer somewhere — 160GB of meticulously tagged MP3s, album art intact, zero podcast recommendations shoved between tracks. Sometimes I turn it on just to remember what