I grew up with music everywhere. CDs at home, records at my parents’ place. You’d scan the spines, pull something out, study the cover while the first track played.
I loved everything around it too. Organising the shelf, deciding what went next to what, making compilations with the tracklist just so and the labels written by hand. Talking about it with friends, who’d stand in front of the collection and pull out something they’d never heard of. That’s how you found new music. Browsing someone else’s shelf.
Then streaming came and changed all of it. I love what it gave us: everything, anywhere, instantly. I’m not going back.
But after a while I started to miss something: the discovering, the curating, stumbling onto something I was never looking for. By then my collection lived inside an app, out of sight, and everything around it had gone quiet.
So I built Spine to get the best of both: all the access from streaming, with your collection back on the wall where you can browse it and talk about it again.
If you miss that real, emotional connection with music but still love everything streaming gives you, Spine might be for you.
Ricardo Amorim, Spine founder.
