I've played guitar for fifteen years and taught myself piano during lockdown, so streaming services feel like a miracle for discovering new artists. But I've also noticed that my listening habits have become narrower, stuck in the same genres the algorithm feeds me, and I rarely stumble onto something truly foreign anymore. Auto-generated playlists are great for background music, yet they seem to flatten the serendipity that used to come from flipping through a friend's CD collection. Can an algorithm ever replace the human touch in curating music, or are we just trading discovery for convenience?