Thirty-five years after the format was introduced as one of the greatest audio advancements since the birth of recorded music — and unwittingly unleashed digitized music into the wild — the once ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

Tony Smith of The Register reports: Sony failed to tune the masses into its better-than-Compact-Disc format, Super Audio CD, so it's having another go, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray ...

Sony debuted on Monday optical storage discs that use blue-laser technology to hold more data and that offer improved durability. Sony indicated that the Professional Disc and Blu-ray will remain ...

Just as compact discs began replacing audiocassette tapes some 20 years ago, Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) or Digital Video Disc-Audio (DVD-A) or both of the relatively new formats should commence ...

When it comes to music consumption, streaming continues to be the music industry's biggest earner. Sales of physical formats like CD and vinyl are declining overall, though the latter has been clawing ...

In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee ...

Memorializing the Compact Disc. Once upon a time, the CD was the ubiquitous music platform. Our story outlines how the disc-based music technology was adopted, loved and eventually abandoned by a ...

A developer has dusted off an almost 20-year-old software project for burning visual artwork onto the data surface of a Compact Disc. Arduinocelentano stresses that the applied imaging technique ...

Sony debuted on Monday optical storage discs that use blue-laser technology to hold more data and that offer improved durability. Sony indicated that the Professional Disc and Blu-ray will remain ...