I can understand that though — vinyl has its own sound quality and appeal. Same for those who maintain tape collections and open-reel machines. CDs are just another means of storing digital files.

But they'd be so much easier for drones to deliver. And cover art is unimportant anyway, unless it's got some sort of hidden message. The only thing I use the liner for is making up for CDDB's awful metadata when it comes to classical music and rare(r) recordings.

Yeah, but ripping never happens at 48x. I don't get people still use them to distribute music — surely microSD cards would take up far less shelf space…

Doesn't matter how fast the reader is — CDs will always be just as slow.

Of course people download music, legally or otherwise…

And why aren't there ways to block it in browsers? ?

@thrrgilag Get a few prepaid sims and carry all of them!

I have so many thousands of classical tracks, I need to expand my library a bit…

…all the while continuing to expand my classical library, particularly with regards to informed baroque recordings and keyboard works.

@kdfrawg I assure you that there is. Extended metadata, accessible through the likes of Audirvana, also allows for Ensemble, Conductor, Soloist, Instrument, Style, and Period fields. //

Indeed. The other one no one gets right is accented characters. Cannot stand this…