New music service, tell me what you think: a guaranteed advert free playlist of around an hour of a particular artist's works, carefully curated and mixed by the artist themself. It gets better: pay one flat fee up-front for unlimited replays, even when offline!

...you've probably spotted that I'm just describing albums, but it increasingly sounds like a really good deal, doesn't it?

@Tattie It's depressing how much of technological change involves discovering that what we thought were limitations was actually denying capabilities to people with ideas worse than we could imagine.
@fuzzyfuzzyfungus yeah, physical media was portrayed as an inconvenience and a liability, but it turned out to be an important way of preventing us being baited-and-switched.