I find MP3's just more useable than vinyl, all my records are still in the attic, only played once to tape them, then sealed up and put away, but MP3's have been a godsend, just burn them for the car, play them on my player, phone etc.

As regards buying music today, there is nothing around musically that I would care enough about to try and source a vinyl copy, but I wouldn't part with my attic collection. The last vinyl album I bought was Neurosis Silver in Blood at a live gig, but I also bought the cd version at the same time.

On saying that, I was talking to a guy in HMV and he says that vinyl is making quite a comeback, I don't know if it will ever get to the stage of collectability of its previous iteration, where specific pressings are more sought after than others, but it has had a new surge in popularity..

That happens to be an exact listing of all the formats my music is in. Yes, I'm a mad hatter who wears loads of exotic formats.

Oh I see, so basically a quarter of your music is Super NES files. :)

Correct.

I have never owned a record player, so CDs and mp3 are fine with me.

Personally I loved vinyl (until it scratched), but am not enough of an audiophile to balk at the convenience of MP3. I rarely use FLAC, simply because I already have converted so many of my CDs to MP3 and the sound difference is largely negligible to me (not to everyone, I understand).

I mostly miss album sleeves - the huge gorgeous artwork, the liner notes, and just the tangible wonderfulness of them. But if my current collection was in physical form, I'd need two rooms of a house to keep it in.

For the same reasons (space and convenience) I have been migrating to ebooks for a lot of my reading. I still buy physical books when they are the kind that I want to possess in a tactile way (or when I think the physical format is unquestionably superior, such as with art books). I do at times miss turning the pages, or putting a record on the turntable, but in general I have to say the move to electronic has been a positive one for me.