It’s like dialing a phone. The term meant one thing and became bastardized.
An album was originally an “album” of 78s or 45s (in a book or box). After 78s, you had to pick betwen 45rpm or 33rpm players (different companies backed the two formats).
We now call them “boxed sets” of CDs. Even though THOSE are albums of CDs.
And as there is no packaging for an mp3 digital download, there can only be “virtual albums” of mp3s.
I was a concert recently and one of the performers said they had mp3s for sale in the back. I thought it was funny.
Indeed and I don’t know how many people know how the “album” word came about. And of course radio and TV itself:
“Don’t touch that DIAL”. Not a dial anymore, necessarily.