I still own at least one CD player - possibly two but I'm not sure of the working status of the second, and I did have a 3rd until the CD player module on a midi HiFi stack broke some years ago, which I've not replaced, for reasons that will become self-explanatory. However, I rarely need to use a physical player now, not even the CD player, let alone the still working midi audio-cassette and MiniDisk decks that I have - the latter are still there in the stack but are not connected to it to save the electricity that would be wasted on them every time the stack is powered up - and I no longer even have vinyls, a record deck, VHS deck, etc.

I moved from my old home in the south to a remote Highland area over a decade ago, but had not bought a new house before selling the old one, consequently I had several months to survive living out of a suitcase, well, the car at any rate. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to take my music and other entertainment ...

    150 45 rpms
    450 LPs (mine)
    150 LPs (inherited from my mother)
    15 78 rpms (gaelic singing; sadly, too far gone to save)
    60 MDs
    200 CDs
    50 VHS/DVD-Rs of TV programs
    30 Commercial DVDs

... in physical form with me, over the preceding year I digitised all of it that I wanted to keep, including scanning the covers, and duplicated it all on two small server boxes, one of which I took with me so I could play stuff on my PC when I rented a room - hardly HiFi quality, but better than nothing.

All that work has really paid off now, because in my new home I get HiFi quality by plugging the PC into a USB soundcard connected to my stereo, and that's how I play all my music now. I just click things on my PC, I don't have to find physical media, I don't have to clean dust off the stylus and the vinyl surface, I don't have to listen to the mains hum that was the curse of record decks (except a Derek Brimstone recording where it was actually recorded onto the tape, nothing I can do about that), etc, etc, and best of all the recordings don't deteriorate over time by wearing out physically with each playing.

I recommend going completely digital, initially it's a lot of investment in time, but not very much money, to do it well, particularly digitising analogue media in real time such as vinyls, audio-cassettes, and VHS, but a huge improvement in reliability and convenience ever after.

Of course, not everyone will be like myself and have a PC, even just a laptop, on most of the day, but all the PC does is control the playback process, and there are always things like tablets that probably could be set up to do that.