It was the second consecutive year physical music sales increased, the IFPI said. Vinyl has been the driving force, with revenue up 17.1% in 2022, after a 51.3% increase in 2021. CD sales ...

Play your movie, music, and game discs, and burn backup CDs or music mixes with this plug-and-play, ultra-thin 8x drive.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A coalition of label marketers worked with MTV, radio stations and music stars to sell skeptical ... when Billy Joel‘s 52nd Street became the first-ever CD to go on sale, two electronics giants ...

Developed in 1988, the CD-R took flight when PCs and digital recorders began allowing consumers to “rip” discs, preserving the music in low bit-rate files to later be recorded onto CD-Rs to share.

A backlog on the vinyl LP production front due to its exploding popularity has forced artists who are not Taylor Swift, and labels that are not Sony or Universal Music, to turn to the CD format ...

While the generated audio may meet CD specifications in bit depth and sample rate, it's worth noting that the actual perceptual quality of the music Stable Audio produces can vary wildly ...

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 early ’00s. It’s the worst Tony ...