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 ...

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 ...

In the first six months of 2026, U.S. compact‑disc (CD) sales leapt 58.6% in wholesale revenue, reaching $171.1 million, ...

It's been 43 years since the first Comact Discs were pressed in 1982, ushering in an age of vastly superior fidelity ruined by slapdash remastering. The first official pressing on the new optical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire Straits in 1985 - Deborah Feingold/Getty Forty years ago this week, the British rock band Dire Straits released their fifth ...

In 1982, when the BBC's prime-time technology show – Tomorrow's World – did a segment on a new musical format called the "Compact Disc" the presenter skeptically asked "Whether there's a market for ...

Compact discs are making a strong comeback, particularly among Gen Z and millennials seeking tangible music collections and ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

The exhibition pays tribute to CDs and the objects that accompanied them, including jewel cases, album booklets, Discmans and ...

Yamaha prepares for a new dawn of the Compact Disc, with a CD multi-changer named the CD-C603 The CD-C603 can play MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV or FLAC files stored on a USB thumbdrive, as well as music on ...