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Gonna miss having physical media to touch.
Clearly, plenty of readers are still committed to CD for one reason or another. How long do you expect record labels to continue releasing CDs?
CD (and SACD) give good satisfaction to those of us who like the little ritual associated with opening a CD and reading the notes. For those of us with reasonable quality players that are needed to listen to existing collections and whose collections expand, there will still be a need for CDs (and SACDs). That won't stop me from adding a music server and DAC to my setup at some stage, and this development won't stop me purchasing new CDs. Don't foregt that for some types of music dissemination of a band's work is by selling CDs at the time of a gig or concert.