The network player arrived on Wednesday; I set it up yesterday and have been enjoying it ever since. I finally decided to buy one after decades of listening habits built around physically hunting for a CD every time I wanted to hear something. Now I can listen to more than forty years of accumulated music that I’ve been gradually committing to disk over the past twenty years — including ripping more than 2,000 CDs, along with my collection of hi-res, lossless audio and other formats. Having everything available through streaming adds a different level of convenience: no hunting through shelves, no swapping discs, no manual file management. Just immediate access to the entire library from one place. It’s good to have it all so easily within reach.