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I prefer dedicated digital players over physical media, for instance, a FLAC player with a digital library over CDs, but I'm glad to see this trend catching up. Anything that gets people building their own collections, escaping algorithms and escaping DRM/streaming is a huge win in my book.
I'm curious as to why? CD's are the ultimate form of audio purity, in my opinion. I've got a kickass stereo set-up with a CD and vinyl hook up; also a cassette, but she don't work so good no more. I always rip my CD's to FLAC so I can put it on my iPod.
Physical media scratches, rots, burns down, etc. They also require a lot of space, and you can't have it all with you easily.
My FLAC library is got the same or better audio quality, I can backup and copy in seconds for myself or friends, I can carry everything, or just curated playlists, with the toggle of a button, and I can preserve them on any medium I find - mechanical HDs, SD cards, SSDs, etc.
Though I am very curious about vinyl...
But... those other storage mediums can also get damaged, burn, rot, etc and are also less portable (excluding the SD cards anyway).
Nothing a decent backup strategy can't mitigate. Also less portable? Between the massive storage available on digital audio players and using jellyfin with something like symphonium digital audio is massively more portable.
You have a point except the portability. A single USB drive is infinitely more portable than a large cd collection.
Sure can. You know what else they can do? Instantly and cleanly copy their data to any other storage device, they can even do so automatically every day!