[Pontiac]

So, when the next solar super-storm hits (google 1859 Carrington event) or we get hit by an EMP. Music (along with many other things) effectively dies. Except those of us with vinyl.

A lot of good your vinyl will do you with out something to play it on after EMP. (Unless you have an old tube amp and a turn table manufactured before the advent of diodes)

But as far as the storage medium is concerned a CD is as good as a LP for surviving an EMP or Solar Flare.

If an EMP or Solar Flare worries you build a faraday cage room for your electronics.

[vanilla swirl]

“A lot of good your vinyl will do you with out something to play it on after EMP. (Unless you have an old tube amp and a turn table manufactured before the advent of diodes)”

I do have some old tube equipment. The storage medium is, of course, not the problem. And, depending on the event, not all solid state electronics will be fried.
My point is simply that the more that music becomes just “magnetic ones and zeros” the less stable it is.
(oh yea, I’ve got an old “Victrola” I could modify and use ;-)