I love Mp3s for everything except masters of my own music. For that I render everything to WAV. For everyone else's music WAV is fine because I don't need to ma

I love Mp3s for everything except masters of my own music. For that I render everything to WAV. For everyone else's music WAV is fine because I don't need to master it or upload it to spotify. The primary problem with keeping my own audio library is that modern music player makers often mess with me. They hobble their free apps, screwing up basic functionality (like the music skip buttons, playlist and UI controls, and random play modes).. features that have been around working just fine since CDs were invented just to encourage me to purchase a copy of their (supposedly) normally functioning app, which probably is a rebranded fork of winamp with no real changes, for 10$. Seeing as I can't trust them because they play around with ruining standard functionality of a music player app, many of them have deleted songs from my library over time (ehem... Google Play Music) Luckily I keep backups elsewhere in 2 other places. Phone makers getting rid of headphone jacks also wasn't enough to make me quit using Mp3s, so not much else will stop me... Let's not bad mouth them and give greedy corps ideas. If we only have spotify, then frankly music will be terrible, and bots will play commercials before every song by 2025, and I don't want to live in a world where I don't pick my own music. I don't trust app makers anymore since artificial malfunctions have been introduced to encourage upgrades.. But I'll stick with Mp3s thank you, because they play in more devices and if worst comes to worse, I'll just charge my iPod and move to the mountains where there is no wifi.