Re: getting rid of your CDs. Well, my portable hard drive died a couple days ago. I took it to a local computer fix-it joint to get it running again or, alternatively, to extract the files and put them in a new one. I've got both fingers & toes crossed. Lots of old pictures. Live recordings of me and my friends playing music. Fires? Floods? How about the vicissitudes of 21st Century electronic gizmos? BTW, I had Qobuz merrily playing on the stereo as I was writing this note. Moments ago, Stravinsky was replaced with silence. Gimme physical media, please!