i usually listen to music to enjoy music, decompress, clear mind of all else, revisit a particular artist to experience his/her/their brilliance - in effect this is 'the harvest', the reward of all the effort made to build a very nice sounding system...
interesting thing is with streaming, i'd probably rate my time listening to saved music/favorites about 2/3’s of the time, the other 1/3 is spent discovering new music, perhaps an older album of an artist, or their new work, or a recommended new artist or album entirely
since there is a good amount of time listening to new music, i must admit that i get thrown back into ’listen to the hifi and not the music mode’ as i can be struck by how some may be well or poorly recorded.... listening to new music, one is more in evaluative mode, seeing if the music is enjoyable, and the sound of it is part of that
so actually this aspect is somewhat cloudier than it was before, listening to cd’s or lp’s from the established collection... of course, i would get new lp’s or cd’s in those days ... but much less often than i am discovering new music these days