[pampa]

I had a huge digital audio collection of mp3's and various lossy and lossless formats, but last year I burned the ZFS raid with the collection by accident. After several month of grieving, i decided to rebuild my collection, but this time using physical media - CD's, vinyl records, cassette and reel-to-reel tapes.

It was a revelation. I found it so liberating to be able to listen to music "unplugged". I can get home from work, put on a record or cd and listen to music without having to open the laptop or mess with the phone.

It also changed the way I listen to music - no skipping tracks, listen to the whole album start to finish. I found that I missed out on a lot of music when I just skipped thru an album because I didn't like the first 2 bars.