The annual summary of your listening habits has become a phenomenon – but aside from being a marketing wheeze, Wrapped doesn’t always reflect what we truly love
I’m not sure I agree with the power usage argument. Even for streaming services, all the ones I’m familiar with will cache songs you listen to frequently on your device (which they’re financially incentivized to do to reduce bandwidth) and isn’t consuming any more power than buy-once-own-forever. And if you’re comparing to physical media I’d assume it is far better, since you’re saving all the energy to acquire materials to create the media, write to it, package it, and ship it.
I’m not sure I agree with the power usage argument. Even for streaming services, all the ones I’m familiar with will cache songs you listen to frequently on your device (which they’re financially incentivized to do to reduce bandwidth) and isn’t consuming any more power than buy-once-own-forever. And if you’re comparing to physical media I’d assume it is far better, since you’re saving all the energy to acquire materials to create the media, write to it, package it, and ship it.