We have several hundred CDs, but only one CD-player to play them on (a Bose radio/CD player that was a retirement gift from my colleagues in 2012. Our other CD-players have long-since given up the ghost.

I ripped a large percentage of our CDs to my laptop but, when I ‘upgraded’ to Win-11, at least 50% of the files disappeared - they were supposed to have been saved in the Cloud, but they’ve disappeared completely. I might at some point try ripping them again, but it’s so damn time-consuming I really can’t be arsed at this moment.

I don’t share others’ enthusiasm for vinyl - always sounded crackly and crappy to my ears. What bit of vinyl I used to have was dumped years ago, and I’m not going down that crap road again.