I generally move on with technology in my own time, but a certain "it gets easier to be better" tends to earmark it.
Case in point: I don't use cassettes any more, except to copy stuff off that I have on cassette. For the equivalent function, I use MiniDisc. Basically I found I was futzing around so much making Really Good cassette recordings whereas with MiniDisc it's a doddle.
Case #2: making decent sounding MP3 files was a trial of repitition. Apart from it being a novelty when I first looked into it, artifact problems et al made it a bit like the cassette problem. :-( A job change meant I could play my own music at work and that's when I discovered Ogg Vorbis. The encoder offers a ridiculously simple interface: "quality". I haven't encoded an MP3 in more than a year.
Wade.