Carrying around dozens of CDs can be a cumbersome task, so it makes a lot of sense to record the music from those discs for playback on an easier-to-carry iPod. Apple's iTunes software makes this ...

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 ...

So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline, it seems. Everyone is streaming, so those charity shops once stacked high with ...

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 ...

The compact disc, for years the music industry's dominant format, appears to be falling out of favor with consumers faster than industry observers had predicted. Digital music? Another story. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Streaming music platforms have been in the news quite a bit recently, and not for good reasons. A lot of people who use streaming music services (which includes virtually all of us) are also quite ...