Ready Player Mode, which began as a tiny media-viewing experiment, has now become my daily music player. Along the way, I moved from regular daily streaming to buying and playing music offline, relying on the odd streaming service exclusively for discovery. This setup's been working great so far. I get unrestricted playback (for life) with the occasional discovery session whenever I see fit. Setup Ready Player Mode runs in Emacs. You install it, enable its minor mode (for media recognition), ...
