The introduction of the compact disc, or CD, was the beginning of a ‘digital revolution’ which now dominates electronic media ... and were reluctant to replace their record collections.

The compact disc changed technology, and went on to be used for data and video storage, evolving into re-writeable media ... CD was easier – there was no standing up to flip over the record or ...

The CD turns 40: Inside the meteoric rise ... song and that I never had to use a pencil to wind the tape back into place." Compact discs were like 'a leap into the future' Most of the readers ...

The compact ... disc – about the size of a drink coaster – promised crisp, clean digital music reproduction without the pops heard on vinyl LPs or the hiss from tapes. The CD did have some ...

Memorializing the Compact Disc ... of the past, replaced in large part by streaming services like Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, and countless others, which give you access to a great fount of ...

Oh, and you could even skip, shuffle and repeat tracks, which, in a pre-digital world, truly felt like the future The Compact Disc ... replace when a fan goes back to the merch table to buy a CD ...

Spotify? YouTube? iTunes? Forty years ago the world got its first glimpse of what would become one of the most important music devices in history - the compact disc (CD). The CD was invented in 1979.

Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl collections ...

So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline ... paranoid about people making perfect copies to media such as DAT (digital audio tape, which ran at 48kHz). This is entirely believable, though I never ...

A Compact Disc (CD) format that contains both data and audio. The data are stored in track 1, and audio is stored in the remaining tracks. Newer audio CD players will skip the first track upon ...