You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

But streaming made playlists the new medium of exchange for musical ideas. People started making playlists for each other, or even for strangers. Streaming services hired human playlist curators and human writers of algorithms for algorithmically curated playlists. A streaming playlist isn’t just an organizational alternative to albums, it’s a format you can (and can afford to) skim.