Compact discs are seeing a modest resurgence as younger listeners rediscover physical music formats, even as long-term sales ...

A resurgence of recent interest in CDs and CD players echoes an earlier wave of interest in vinyl records and turntables. The ...

Searching a music database for the missing album information in a music CD disc. Old, as well as many new, music CDs do not contain artist name, album and song titles, but MP3, AAC and other ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

Most of us store our favorite music on a digital playlist, but March marks an anniversary for those of us who remember when music came on something physical. Forty years ago, in March 1983, Billy Joel ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable. Produced by LeBron James and ...

The shiny compact disc, once as essential to every living-room music system as a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, is quickly going the way of the eight-track and cassette tape. The rise of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Our chief classical music critic writes in praise of going to a shelf, pulling out a recording and sitting down to listen. By ...