Once thought of as a ‘dead format,’ the compact disc has looked to have received a new lease of life. From Millennials ...

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But just to be clear: I don’t like this! It devalues the compact disc, my personal favorite physical music format, and it obscures the CD era of music, which lasts roughly the late ’80s to the ...

The music industry ended up leaning into the "disc" usage — compact disc for CD and disc jockey for DJ — after the French term for "music club," which was "discotheque," meaning music library.