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My point was never about the exact traits of the media itself, it was about the relationship between convenience and experience. With your phone you can get any music you want at any time - essentially 100% convenience. My example was with the inconvenience of vinyl and its subsequent increase in experience because that's what I'm familiar with, but an ipod is also significantly less convenient than a phone, requiring you to pick only what music it can store, and having to manually and deliberately put it onto the machine. It serves as a sort of middle ground between the two examples I'm familiar with, which is why I said I could understand why it would give a better experience when compared to a phone.
With streaming you can, but again, that's a "streaming versus local playback" argument. I have to buy and download the songs I play. Even piracy would be jumping through some kind of hoop to find a good copy (purchasing being arguably more convenient). I download them to my PC and make a copy to my phone so I can easily listen on both (and stream via Jellyfin on LAN if I want).
The iPod is barely an inconvenience by comparison, even if I directly downloaded to my phone. It's such a minimal step to physically transfer the digital audio to the iPod. The actual inconvenience is having a second electronic device taking up valuable pocket space, and that's not a quaint little spice-of-life inconvenience like a retro console taking up shelf space; that's just fucking annoying.
Sounds like you've already started using your phone in a less convenient way, sacrificing the ease of streaming, and instead having to collect and manage your own music, but improving your experience in the process. That's definitely another alternative, if having a completely separate form of listening isn't your style. Nice!
It's not something I'd be able to do - if I'm thinking about music on my phone, I can't help but click the spotify button and leave it at that. I need to get my phone out of the equation, and I assume the author of the article is the same way, but if you're able to do it all on one machine, good on you!