While it makes me feel old-ish, I consider myself quite lucky to have personally experienced all of the above music storage stuff. My grandpa had a record player which I loved using. Of course, all the record options I had were seemingly outdated (and now rare) such as Danny Kaye, Bill Haley, Mary Hopkin & Connie Francis. Then came the era of tapes (and mixed tapes and walkmans) which are now obsolete (thankfully CDs aren't completely extinct yet). I was reminded how much fun these different media were in their own way. Sure, mp3 players are a lot of fun because they do more than just play music and there's so much more choice, saving of space and costs but I couldn't help think that's there was some charm missing.