February 16, 2021
The iTunes rating system has never really worked. When you view an album in Apple Music, a star appears next to its most listened to tracks, meant to signify the best songs on the album.
Usually, though, the first two or three tracks are starred, regardless of their quality, because with infinite music streaming, we listen to the first few tracks on an album, quickly grow restless,
whether we like them or not, and then go searching for something else. There is so much content to listen to and so little time to listen to it all we don’t listen to our music all the way through anymore. This is a variation of a phenomenon so common across digital media that it has its own acronym: FOMO.