[rcarr]

This is very similar to what the British comedian James Acaster does/did. He buys music off Bandcamp then puts it on his iPod. He documented it all in his second book Perfect Sound Whatever, it helped him get over a breakup and depression around 2016 if I remember right. He jokes in his book that he has an 'iPod guy' who hooks him up with the old iPods. His recommendations here:

https://www.jamesacaster.com/my-music/

[Le_Dook]

Wow! What a list! I'd love to see more people make lists like it. I'll have to give the book a check too, thanks for sharing!

[lancesells]

I try and make playlists for the year I've experienced on Apple Music: 2020: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-year-is-2020/pl.u-RR... 2021: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-year-is-2021/pl.u-vx...

This year I'm going to start writing out the songs.

[patchorang]

I do this as well, here's a couple: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0fG7yOWKeuU3qH3k60gEVY?si=... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DdZ7Gmydk7iE3eyshdzRV?si=...

[ThrowawayTestr]

I'm not sure how to feel about the status quo of only a decade ago being the vogue thing to do now.