Very insightful article, in particular with regards to music listend to in formative years and how to be able to play ones favorite music from the past now and in the future. But perhaps this desire is not universal and the younger generation will never be nostalgic?

If I may add my own thoughts, a medium is the link between a source and a sink, the artist and the listener; the clue is in the word. While physical media can be owned, stored and curated under copyright, their digital counterpart as downloadable file is a bit different. Perhaps it would be nice to keep a record of the purchase of digital items somewhere, like on a distributed ledger. So if you loose your flac file, or the provider you downloaded from, there is a possibility to get back to it holding a receipt in your digital vault.

For streaming, I presume, one does not get the right to hold a copy, only to consume on demand. So with the streaming service gone, this right goes, too. However, as long as there is demand for music, there will be an offer of some kind suitable for the requirements of the listerners. Spotify for one, does not suit me with its artist/album/song paradigm applied to all genres. It may well work for the passing-by music listening experience. Personally, I prefer https://www.idagio.com/ as the experience is more akin to browsing my own CD collection: a concious choice of composer, his/her work, the performer down to a recording I want to listen to.