Digital Library - or Not? Needed?


Newbie here - so take it easy on me. Been browsing the forums and see quite the vitriol in some cases.

I have a system I'm happy with that streams hi res using commercial services that we all know about. Can access almost all my music preferences, as I'm not into rare/underground/etc., but most of my taste is commercial so can easily find on streaming services.

I also have a small CD collection since I was a youngster (lets say 200?), mostly of albums that one can easily find on my streaming services, with a few exceptions (like those of my personal music with bands I've been involved in).

I can't pinpoint a good reason to digitize the CD collection and turn into a digital library, except for the very few exceptions noted. But I have a "fear of missing out" (FOMO), which I'm sure most of us can relate to. Like... there must be a good reason to create the library and have access to it... but my rationale side says "why, when you have access already? And that access is hi-res files?"

Is there another good reason to create a FLAC library like this? Or is my logical brain making more sense than my emotional side?

Thanks!
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edcyn/OT:

Our iMac "completely" failed in 2017 (nothing retrievable per Apple).

We replaced it with another/like iMac (the old one was 7 years old).

Approx. one year ago my wife was able to retrieve all of our lost photos, documents et cetera, when she accidentally discovered that they had been stored in The Cloud (think she was doing something on FaceBook @ the time).

Not a computer person, but glad my wife eventually figured it out (and pissed that Apple didn’t bother to advise/look).

DeKay