An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced ...

Compact discs are creating a boom for the struggling music industry by offering music lovers stereo recordings free of snaps, crackles and pops. The technology, relatively unknown three years ago, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

2:34 Edmonton record lovers and owners react to vinyl outselling CDs When Luminate, the company that monitors music sales and streaming consumption, released its weekly numbers last week, I sighed ...

Johannesburg - What was the first CD you ever bought? The first compact disc (CD) I ever saved up for was Lil’ Bow Wow’s Beware of Dog. I recall so much about that experience. Trying to hide the ...

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, ...

My name is Claire Evans. I'm Jona Bechtolt. And together, we co-author an entity called Yacht, based in Los Angeles, California. Yacht is a band. That's what we're known for, and that's why we're here ...

What is a compact disc (CD)? A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry.CD-ROM drives employ a ...

It may not have caused the widespread panic that Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” radio spoof sparked in 1938, but an April Fool’s hoax concocted by radio station WXRT apparently touched a nerve ...