Spotify helps me keep track of my favorite songs from each year — but this one upgrade would make it so much easier for grouping my favorite albums
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Users are now building external scaffolding — Musicboard, spreadsheets, notes — to compensate for missing library structure inside streaming apps. For any content platform, the gap between “playlisting” and real collection management is turning into an opportunity for third-party layers and, eventually, AI curation agents.
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