It’s a pretty good New Music Friday, everybody. But today, while adding some new releases to my Spotify library, I ran into one of the app’s most aggravating restrictions: I crossed the 10,000-song limit. The “Your Music” section of Spotify is where all of your saved artists, albums, and songs go. It’s what makes Spotify feel like your Spotify — especially if you spent years using iTunes before music entered the streaming era. Your Music is everything you’ve plucked from the service’s vault of over 30 million tracks to encompass your personal collection. But that collection has a hard ceiling of 10,000 songs. Why is there such an arbitrary cap?

Playlists don’t work this way. Spotify treats playlists differently from your library….

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