I buy CDs, rip to FLAC with EAC, store on external hard drive, transcode to MP3 with Foobar2000, and upload to my Android phone--or anything else except Apple p

I buy CDs, rip to FLAC with EAC, store on external hard drive, transcode to MP3 with Foobar2000, and upload to my Android phone--or anything else except Apple products, really--with an ordinary USB cable, with no additional software required. I recently got an M-Disc capable drive, so that I can stop messing around with rotating DVD-R backups. Those things supposedly last 1000 years with no bit-rot, and 25 GB media are about $0.08/GB now. That's still 8x as expensive as tapes, but probably more than 8x as convenient for me. I want to ensure that my descendants will always have the option to play music without paying anyone anything more than I already paid for the privilege, for as long as 12cm digital disc players exist. I have never had a streaming subscription. I typically have the maximum number of songs that will fit on my device playing on random select. If I am not in the mood for a particular song, I have unlimited skips, so I use them. It ensures I at least have the opportunity to listen to everything I have ever bought/received while at my home computer, and a subset of whatever I like everywhere else. Streaming services are still useful for discovery. I use them when adding new CDs to my gift wishlist. Whenever I don't want to be in complete control of everything that I listen to, I can always flip on OTA FM radio or a free music service. That's plenty good enough to be introduced to new music and possibly new (to me) artists. But then I get that CD and continue as usual. Never will I ever give up my option to be in complete control. I think buying music on vinyl records would be ridiculously stupid for me, but fortunately for everyone, I am not in charge of what other people are allowed to like. The encoding format of pressed vinyl analog music tracks has been fixed for decades, after all, and anyone can build decoding devices unencumbered by patents now. I just prefer digital. Everyone can still hate iTunes for their own reasons.