I Took Back Control of What I Listen To
Self-Hosted · Music · 28 Years of Library I Took Back Control of What I Listen To. I'm a man approaching forty. I've always loved music — deeply, obsessively. But growing up in a Latin country, the music I actually liked rarely made it to the radio. What I wanted to hear was whatever MTV decided to air that day, and not much else. No algorithm back then — just limited access and a lot of waiting. That frustration pushed me toward technology earlier than most. If the system wouldn't give me what I wanted, I'd find another way. I remember when the internet was still version 1.0. There weren't many pages. Search engines weren't common yet — you had to use Yahoo, AltaVista. And then, much later, Google appeared. I remember the first days of YouTube. When YouTube was ugly and uncontrolled by any algorithm. When it was just people uploading things and other people watching them. But music? Music was its own journey. If I wan...