Open music app via a shortcut on the desktop, press play.

I hate early MP3 players, my first held 256MB of storage, i know rip to FLAC and that would be too small for one album. I now have 256GB in my phone thanks to the MicroSD card slot and it holds all my music and I don't need to carry around a separate device.

Look here you whippersnapper, wait until 2042 and see how janky current tech looks then. My Sagem MY-C2 may have been utterly useless for anything but texting and calling but it fit into my pocket and I barely noticed it was there. My current phobe is much more capable but i'm sure in 20 years when I have a 256GB terabyte microSD card (or equivalent) in it i'll also consider it to be a relic of a bygone era.

I listen to a lot of compilations to discover new artists, i'll usually buy the album the song on a compilation is from and go from there.

Sometimes i'll be recommended to a band by a friend and i'll either leap in and pick an album at random or ask for a recommendation from them.

It biodegrades and had done since the first appearance of Spiderman in Amazing Fantasy.

The compact disc.

I buy CDs, rip to FLAC for convenience but there is an audible difference when compared to MP3, I have some compilation albums in MP3 format (given away as samplers) and I know when listening to my music on shuffle if i've been served the version on the compilation album or the one i've ripped myself, it's just a bit off, it's mostly from hearing both songs a lot.

I used to listen to music via pretty shit earphones (usually Philips sport earphones which have an earclip though i've had all sorts over the years) now I use a pair of AKG Y500 headphones, my headphones, initially, didn't sound much better than my old headphones but going back to my old headphones is like listening via a speaker in a dustbin, all the faults are much more evident.

It's the same with media formats, once upon a time in the dark ages of 256MB MP3 players i ripped to 64K WMA files and they sounded fine, they sounded roughly like the CD did in my portable CD player with it's 1 or 2 watt speakers. However, going back to them after ripping to FLAC was horrendous and I felt embarrassed that i used to tolerate such bollocks.

So while I probably could take a song I was unfamiliar with, do a side by side comparison with and hear the differences immediately I know that I could hear both over a long period of time and start to notice the differences. Usually it's in the rumble of the drums or the wash of a cymbal but it's definitely there even if it's in he fringes of the sound rather than the core.

This reads like the sort of phrases people insert into Google Translate then translate it a few times then translate it back into English.

Joe Satriani comes to mind though he's not solo the guitar is the main focus.