He leaned back and traced the route the streams would take—through fiber and copper, across routers and satellite hops—imagining each packet as a paper boat crossing the dark. For a playlist, it was a fragile thing: one broken link and a story went dark. Yet for all its fragility, it was also durable—rebuilt every month, every upload, a new edition with old comforts tucked inside.

: A great "swiss-army knife" for testing playlists on PC or Mac via Media > Open Network Stream .