I’m a big fan of free music. So, naturally, I adore the program Spotify, which lets you create a playlist of all your favourite songs, without having to download anything and it’s completely supported by loads of artists. I don’t actually have a playlist on my main computer as I’ve never really bought much music and found the act of copying it all onto my computer a bit of a pain anyway, so my library was ALL spotify.

Which was great, Spotify and I had a great relationship… and then I introduced Spotify to Mike. As I’d downloaded it on my old laptop, which is the one he now owns, he was under the impression that he didn’t need an account, and the playlist that I’d created was just on that computer. So, when he recently started using Spotify more often, he decided to delete this playlist and start his own. Which means my playlist on my laptop also went byebye.

At first, it was a bit of an amusing moment as I didn’t think it would really matter that much to me. And then I remembered that I’d added loads of new artists that I’d forgotten the names of to it, and those would basically be gone forever. The mourning process begins. So now I have a new task, which I suppose is the positive side of this experience – rebuilding my library of music, finding new artists to fall in love with. Any suggestions?