I had the regular upright stereo until about 1996 now I have a very small table stereo with cd-radio and it plays music from flash drives. it will also rip cds. I have no cassettes any more. I have 3000 songs in my computer and 250 to 300 cds I have bought since I started collecting in 1990. I still have the first cd I ever bought. With my mp3 player and a compact stereo, that's about all I need.