[TacticalCoder]

> MP3s have been on the way out for a long time, being replaced by music subscriptions

I both have music subscriptions (Spotify for the wife, Qobuz for me: Qobuz streams lossless but sucks for music discovery) and good old files (mostly FLAC files indeed except some very old, impossible-to-find, live recordings I only have in mp3). One does not prevent the other.

Also some people self-host or partially self-host things: you stream from a server you own: be it family pictures (I'm Mich / immich), movies and/or music (Plex or Jellyfin). And, well, the stream doesn't spring out of thin air: there are good old files on the server.

Lastly: some music streaming services allows you to buy albums and/or individual songs, DRM-free.

[jerlam]

I'm not saying that MP3 and CDs and cassette tapes and vinyl don't work. But they are on the decline and no company would be wise to make a mass-market device specifically for them, when the mass market has moved on.

[trq01758]

These days Spotify can stream FLACs as well, it's a setting.