Not just portable players I hated the whole CD/DVD technology. Some facilities in my previous lab was so Anti-thumb drives and would want you to take data on a CD/DVDs. That sucked. A tiny scratch here or there and there you data would be corrupted. It was such a relief when they gave those facilities server and intranet access.

And yeah those Portable CD players and for that matter non portable CD player based systems like car and home stereos sucked too. The only thing I might have liked was that it was relatively easier to build your music playlist on a CD using your desktop.