My windows Vista laptop, found it after long sleepy storage, it is a life saver because I’ve dusted off my music collection of various burned CD’s and have been digitizing everything burning CD’s that are scratched or deteriorating and the laptop reads these beat down CD’s like a champ, my windows 10, not so much.
Point being, I am preserving so much music and the best part, no subscription, pay wall, or membership to sign up to, just play in my Pioneer 1990’s tower of power!
My nephew and I will go out before and after the holiday to pick up people dumping old PCs in the rubbish. I place notices that we recycle old PCs. We end up making them into Linux boxes for the senior citizens. The state pays us, the elderly get a refurbished PC, and our landfill is less one more. I am always happy to hear people recycling tech waste.
The music I have been cataloging is irreplaceable, not that they are rare but I will never be able to find hard copies of the music as they are foreign labels from around the world and I wouldn’t know who the artist is, luckily the music program usually does, but not all.
I’d swap music everywhere I went and if they were open to swapping, some of my favorite come from the area of Bosnia.
I have a 500+ CD collection. All originals. It is still my main method to listen to music. I never watch craptube, I’ve never used Spotify. I still buy CDs.
One day they might declare us pirates for owning a hardcopy, or if it is original CD’s maybe wealthy status 
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I have found one way to store my music I don’t wish to lose, is Google Drive and other such online storage sites. As long as you don’t share them, Google won’t bark at you. They offer 15 GB for free and paid plans up to 2 TB for $10 per month. I also use external storage ( old spin drives ) I have literally a draw filled with everything from 500 GB up to 10 TB drives. It is getting harder to find old PC’s with the IDE connection, eventually I need to shift a lot of data to SATA only. As you can see, I hate to make E-waste. I also have a large collection of USB thumb drives ranging from 16 GB to 250 GB.
As for the label “pirate”, I like what Kevin Smith said about his opinion on sharing his movies. He wants you to enjoy his work, he looks at sharing, as loaning the DVD to a friend and saying, “Hey, this is a good movie, watch it and I will pick it up when your done.”. He has repeated this belief more than once in personal interviews.
Fly Safe o7