What killed it is that they weren't really portable the same way flash memory is. An obvious improvement over CD players but the disk would still jump. Plus the

What killed it is that they weren't really portable the same way flash memory is. An obvious improvement over CD players but the disk would still jump. Plus the disk swapping! Don't know how large your music library is but but having 8 discs for nostalgic reasons is different from having hundreds of them because it's your primary source.