I loved the CD era for games. Many pc games and some playstation games, had their soundtrack as regular CD tracks. You could play it on any CD player, you only needed to skip track 1.
I played the Wipeout 2097 CD as many times in the CD player, then as a game. Settlers (pc) had some catchy tunes too.

Hearing the music again of a game brings back the memories much better then seeing a few screenshots. At least for games with memorable music.

I value music more than graphics in games. I don't really care for graphics, but music does not make me buy a game either (I don't know if it has). It's mostly gameplay for me.

Lots of Saturn games had Redbook audio too, pretty much all Sega games had it.

I highly agree. What really bugs me about modern games, or at least the ones that I have played, is the lack of music. One of the reasons why I loved Metroid Prime was how the music almost blends with the environment.