Are CD players goig the way of the 8 track,and the cassette?

Convenience has always been the highest priority for many. 

8 tracks and cassettes WERE convenient at the time. And entropy wrecks 'em, you can't preserve them. The magnatized info fades.  NEVER close to the master recording.
CDs ARE close for better or worse. They can be sensibly ripped to lossless+. Anyone that does that with a compromised tape format is too cheap to stream lossless.
And as your playback chain improves they sound better than the streaming service's does.
No comparison.

Hi,
As long as music industry is interested in making CD’s they will co-exist with anything else. More than 100mil CD’s were sold last year a figure that continues to drop but till it reaches the non existent low we have time. Mathematically it will happen, sooner for the average consumer, but there will be room for better quality CD’s targeting to a niche and selected market. So do not write it off so quickly. I can see some people selling their collection of CD’s for peanuts and others to benefit.

Right now I'm totally enjoying an EMI CD of the Puccini opera La Rondine.  Beautiful tone. Clear and distortion free -- issues that can be iffy in opera recordings, especially on vinyl.  Fine if not quite world class imaging. I fished the multi-CD album off the shelf.  Even on the classical streaming service Primephonic, complete opera recordings are not yet commonplace.  In other words, in my view it's not quite time to write off the silver discs.