Streaming services will tell you they’ve democratised music. The joy of a finite library – whether on an iPod or a stack of CDs – was that it forced you to live with your music. You gave albums a chance, even the tracks you weren’t sure about, because they were already in your collection. The iPod, but modernI could, of course, dig out my old iPod. Because that’s exactly what a new iPod could be – a way to preserve not just your music collection, but a way of experiencing music that feels increasingly lost.