[Nicolai P. Zwar]

It depends largely on what type of music listener you are. The majority will not care. It’s not that most don’t buy physical media they also don’t buy downloads. So they don’t tag anyway. That only something for rather “music crazy” people like us 😉

That’s indeed so. In fact, the market for music digital downloads is even smaller than the market for physical media. People either buy LPs/CDs, or they don’t buy music at all. Digital downloads is a very narrow niche. And even though I personally love digital downloads, I can understand why it’s not more widespread.
There are those who love physical media, like LPs and CDs, they want something in their hands, in their shelf, they enjoy nice booklets and presentation. Obviously, only physical media can give that experience.

But for those who don’t need physical media, it’s hard to see why they should need digital downloads. They spend their monthly fee on a music service that provides them with millions of titles anywhere and on any system. Most “mainstream” albums are there. Sure, specialty collectors like us know not all albums are there, but many are.

So why would they buy an album. Most people are not set up to play their own music anymore, they are set up for streaming and even if there might be a few albums only available on CD (or download), most people are probably not set up to rip and/or play them.

So unless you already have a large music collection (as I’m sure most of us here have) that you have transferred to digital (in which case, chances are, you’re also set up to somehow play those files and could therefore easily add digital downloads), you are probably not set up (anymore) to play your own music (files) at all.