I'm old enough that I had cassette tapes and CDs as a kid, and since I already had a portable CD player I resisted MP3 players when they first arrived. (Did you know, some CD players could play discs of MP3s, so in a way I already had an MP3 player...)
So I've never put CDs in microwave, but I have ripped and burned quite a few in my time, as well as DVDs. It seems that some younger folks missed that stage of tech (like I just barely missed the stage of recording radio songs onto tapes). My partner and I watched part of a tutorial on how to stop paying for streaming, and quickly realized that this amazing method was to simply buy physical releases, rip them, and store them on a server.
So apparently physical media is now a secret hack? Who knew.