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Life Without Streaming: An Update
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Life Without Streaming: An Update

A month ago, I canceled my Spotify subscription. Here's when I regretted it.

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After a decade as a Spotify user and five years as an employee, I recently canceled my Premium subscription.

I still have a free account, because I didn’t want to lose my playlists, but I deleted the app from my laptop dock and phone homescreen.

For a few days, my brain still routinely looked for the green logo – then it resorted to the new default.

But l…

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