Oh!
When .mp3's were all the rage, I stuck with CDs.
When people were music sharing like there was no tomorrow (note: there wasn't), I stuck with CDs.
When people starting buying mp3 mobiles, iSnobs, and whatever other portable things you could wedge .mp3s into, I stuck with CDs.
I ended up with a small collection of mp3s as fallout from building mix CDs, of course, and it was nice to be able to play some of them when I was upstairs at my home pc, but the important music stayed on CD and vinyl. But what ended up happening was our CD players started getting old and the laser diodes began to fail, so we had to retrench to worse and worse CD players. Eventually I started thinking that using a computer as an integrated amp/cd-player might be a good idea, and as a preamble to this I had to convert our CD collection to Ogg Vorbis files.
So I bought a used CD tower, set up a Freebsd box to drive it, and started slurping up the CDS. 30 or so CDs later, I was poking around the output directory on one of the windows PCs upstairs, and went through a loop of
- I haven't played this one for years
- <clickity>
4 or 5 songs later, I realized what the point was. Now to get ogg players for every room in the house.