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The point is really just how pointless and esoteric it is, not to offer a better way of playing music. This isn't for casual readers, this is for nerds who do stuff that nobody else cares about, for the fun and challenge.

The advantage is that the app is designed to work with specific obsolete devices that needed a now long-in-tooth software package to transfer files to them. It's very hard to get this package working on modern machines, so having this functionality available via a web app is a quantum leap.

The idea is to re-enable functionality that was lost on old devices that were locked to shitty DRM schemes.