I do stream a fair amount via Spotify, just because it's so easy to do on a variety of devices, but I'm a well trained consumer and have been buying my media for a long time so I can "own" it and not rely on another provider. When it was just vinyl for the most part I satisfied my portable needs with mixtapes on cassette but ditched that fairly quickly once I could do it digitally instead. I am not always able to play music with the internet's help where I live, particularly in the car as I'm mostly surrounded by a wide area of no service for phones. I can download a file in advance from Spotify on a portable device if I think about it, but just easier to copy from my own collection on a thumb drive and change the selection once in a while.
These days I do immediately rip my cds rather than play the disc for the most part (other than to make sure it plays, as I do with used discs I often buy now) but stream or play those files from a variety of devices (pc, pad, phone, thumb drives) on various systems around the house via wifi. I do buy some download-only stuff if I can get a lossless copy (my preference). I do still play my multich discs that are a pain to rip, a variety of DVDs, SACDs and blurays. So far my several players (including an Oppo) are doing fine with doing that as well and will probably last until I kick it. I did not know about that multich SACD ripping service but for that cost/pain I'll just play the disc. I even play some vinyl once in a while for nostalgia or just something I don't have a file of or isn't available on Spotify, the tt has been fine for a long time but doubt I'll ever wear out my current stylus at the rate I play those. I wish there was more actual multich music available to download or stream (rather than that manufactured by upmixing to Dolby Atmos, which I have no capability of anyways).
My ripped cds do reside in binders for the most part, I haven't caught that up for cd purchases for a while, tho so I still have some in jewel cases (or those nicer paper based ones where liner notes are not so easy to save as with a jewel case). I do keep the cds as a backup, not for the legal reason, and I figure whoever survives me can donate my collection to the local library, I know my younger sister think its ridiculous I still have physical media....but then she still has a large number of books, go figure. Are we supposed to also go fully digital with books now, too?
I have bought my last few books digitally, tho....and no longer use print media much altho for many many years you couldn't separate me from my need for the morning paper to read with my coffee
but there isn't much of that left....
One thing that does bother me some is the little money artists get from the streaming services so I do try and buy discs/downloads directly from artists if I can....
