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All I have of the Eagles is the two Asylum CDs, Their Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits Volume 2. Although these digital conversions were done early in the CD era, when technical specs were not what they are today, to me they sound fantastic.
I see online that when they went to remaster the studio album Hotel California in 1992, the master tapes had sticky shed syndrome and would not play. So engineer Steve Hoffman had the tapes baked, and that created a 2-week window of playability during which the reels were successfully re-digitized:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/dcc-of-eagles-hotel-california-old-topic-new-thread.959331/
But my own needs are met by the 20 songs on the two Asylum compilations, apart from maybe some Don Henley solo songs. And again, these vintage CDs sound so clear and vivid, I can't imagine needed a better pass at the tapes.
If you're into the Eagles, discussion welcome. 
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I'm sure James Fitzpatrick posted that he had to bake the tapes of Mad Max 3 when he found them, & they tried to do a hits collection of Jimi Hendrix, it was found that the original tapes were unusable & needed baking, I think there's been a hell of a lot of tape baking over the years (it must have been a brave/desperate person who first baked a music tape). It just goes to show how fragile all this stuff is, entropy never sleeps & everything's trying to fall apart. I love The Eagles Greatest Hits, & I think it was one of the best selling albums ever.
Yes. Imagine if digital audio had never come along. You can't preserve music long term by playing old analog tapes onto new analog tapes, and keep repeating the process as the decades pass. Generational loss would eventually blur the whole history of music into oblivion. Without digital files that copy perfectly, the only long-term preservation of music would be on vinyl records. Or maybe optical discs that store analog data, the way LaserDisc did for movies.
I'm still grooving on my Eagles short-list:
Take it Easy
One of These Nights
Best of My Love
I Can't Tell You Why
Take it To the Limit
Hotel California
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Lying Eyes
These songs are never getting old.
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