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 ...

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 ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Compact Disc’s star has well and truly faded. At its peak, at the turn of the century, just short ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The compact disc, or simply the CD as its most commonly referred to these days, turned 30 years old ...