With vinyl records often outselling CDs, and streaming services thrashing both, your optical disc–based music collection might feel like its time has come and gone. Apple is partly to blame, of course. While it didn’t invent the digital audio player (DAP), it certainly popularized it, with various flavors of iPod selling in their millions since the very first model promised to enable “1,000 songs in your pocket” when it launched in 2001.
With the iPhone, iPad, Mac and even the Apple Watch capable of storing more songs than entire music collections, it’s no surprise that old media formats have largely fallen
