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

To most people, it's a foregone conclusion that the day of the compact disc has passed, with the music format having gone the way of the 8-track tape - to the great compost pile in the sky, replaced ...

Forty years ago this week, the British rock band Dire Straits released their fifth album Brothers in Arms, a glossily-produced rock masterpiece. But the album’s music would arguably become its second ...

It has been 41 years since the very first Compact Disc (CD) was produced in the world, paving the way for the future of commercialized music. In Germany, a factory run by Royal Philips Electronics ...

Compaq Computer is putting a new spin on its digital audio players. The Houston-based company announced on Monday two new players that use discs instead of expensive flash memory cards to store songs.

This summer marks 40 years since the arrival of Bruce Springsteen's seminal Born in the U.S.A. album, but the milestone is just a tip of the iceberg for music lovers across the country. It's now 40 ...

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, ...

When a writer publishes a book, the publisher commonly offers the book in several different formats. For example, audio technology now allows publishers to release books in both electronic and audio ...