They have made better by democratizing it and making more kinds of music accessible to more people on demand.
It‘s worse because music can be produced and uploaded by, at best, mediocre talent, and artists get paid a pittance. For every hundred songs, 3-5 might be “ok” and one or two are “keepers” if you’re lucky.
Gone are the days where bands have a string of bangers and albums loaded with great songs. A lot of music just seems to be thrown at the wall to see what sticks. There were a lot of downsides to major label controlled music industry, but they also made some great bands.
Or anything that forces you to leave home
You take it with you like the good old days
Early walkmans were quite unwieldy
I had a Sony CD walkman, a later model with read ahead buffer. It did OK for normal walking.
No actually I can carry all the music I want in the storage of my phone. It’s nice to have unlimited access to it even when there is no cellular data or wifi available. Sometimes I go fully out of range of all Internets but I still have music.
That’s nice for small collection, but I don’t want to buy a 2 TB SD card for my phone, so streaming from my home server is a far better option.
And with a music play with a cache, you can still listen to good portion of it when offline.