Compact discs are seeing a modest resurgence as younger listeners rediscover physical music formats, even as long-term sales ...

Searching a music database for the missing album information in a music CD disc. Old, as well as many new, music CDs do not contain artist name, album and song titles, but MP3, AAC and other ...

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 ...

Most of us store our favorite music on a digital playlist, but March marks an anniversary for those of us who remember when music came on something physical. Forty years ago, in March 1983, Billy Joel ...

Along with the new recording of Man With a Load of Mischief, Original Cast Records has distributed two other recent show CDs. The more interesting of the pair is a 2003 studio-cast disc of a ...

The shiny compact disc, once as essential to every living-room music system as a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, is quickly going the way of the eight-track and cassette tape. The rise of ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released recorded music sales revenue figures for 2016 and some of the historical music sales data from the RIAA are displayed in the two ...

JAY Records has been devoting considerable attention to recordings of productions by the York Theatre Company, including The Musical of Musicals, I Sing!, The It Girl, Lucky Stiff, Prodigal, and ...

MP3s are very convenient and supported by many devices from portables to car audio systems. But no matter how high the bit rate of an MP3 file, it's still a lossy format, meaning some of the sound ...

Welcome to Dial Up, Mashable’s most excellent look at technology in the '90s, from the early days of the World Wide Web to the clunky gadgets that won our hearts. Where to put the Modest Mouse CD? I ...