I suppose this was inevitable as soon as "computer" inveigled its way into "audio system".
The whole computer business relies on making money by obsoleting perfectly functional hardware by adding, frequently pointless, bloatware and has for decades.
The (expensive) 40Mb hard drive on my first computer wasn't big enough to store a single sheet of paper with nothing on it in today's Word format but worked fine for all my office tasks, word processing and spreadsheets. OK no use for video or photography but as a typewriter emulator and doing hard sums it was fine.
I'm glad I don't use file based music much, smug even
The whole computer business relies on making money by obsoleting perfectly functional hardware by adding, frequently pointless, bloatware and has for decades.
The (expensive) 40Mb hard drive on my first computer wasn't big enough to store a single sheet of paper with nothing on it in today's Word format but worked fine for all my office tasks, word processing and spreadsheets. OK no use for video or photography but as a typewriter emulator and doing hard sums it was fine.
I'm glad I don't use file based music much, smug even