Which was the style at the time
I used to have the same thing, until someone broke in and stole it. Ever sense then I had burned CDs in the car. My current car has MP3 ability so I have 300 songs on a CD.
None of my current cars have a cd player. I can only consider that a bummer through nostalgia. The cd is antiquated as portable music.
I still use CDs, it’s a way to own the music, and it doesn’t play ads.

I like and appreciate the extras that physical albums bring, as well as the freedom and reliability of physical media.

But even as an old guy that’s all about connecting with the physical world and stimulating all the senses and all that, when it comes to the mechanisms of listening to music it’s hard to beat FLAC albums on the Jellyfin server. It takes up so little space.