This exactly.

It’s the ceremonial steps that precedes the listening experience that adds flavour to the enjoyment.

If I want to just listen music and do other things I just use Apple Music + AirPods/Soundbar, but if I want to listen a certain album and make the experience more active, I use the record player.

My music collection on vinyl is curated since each album involves a higher cost.

There is also my fascination on analog things, I have an automatic turntable and love the orchestra of mechanical sounds from all the internal components.

Edit: Forgot to mention that on streaming platforms sometimes the only version available is a remastered version that was rereleased on CD that fucked the dynamic range during the loudness war or is an edit of the original one.

Just a handful, from whe just a few are active in almost a daily basis.

3dprinting

Steamdeck

Balatro

Stardew Valley

Startrek

tenforward (Star Trek memes)

Cat

Bats

Pocket Casts, for listening to podcasts. Got fed up with Apple Podcasts and heard good things about this one. I forgot what I disliked of AP, I just remember that it was something related to managing the episodes. Wikiloc, for hiking. The premium subscription is almost nothing, can find and follow routes easily.