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When you wanted to play some music in the nineties, you’d get a CD from wherever your collection was stored (usually in the same room), open its case and put it in the CD player. You’d turn on the amplifier and pressed play. You’d be set for more than an hour. That, and the robustness of the medium, made CDs much more convenient than your parents’ fragile vynyl records in their carton sleeves. There was also the variation where there would already be a CD in the CD player, but no case lying a...