Vinyl has long been the big story in physical media, but CDs are cheaper, quicker to manufacture, and poised for a comeback.

Forty years ago today, a magnificent revolution swept across the music industry, making albums more accessible and enhanced audio playback. The Compact Disc became popular in the late 1980s and ...

CD longboxes created 18.5 million pounds of waste annually in the 1980s. Learn how artists and activists led the "Ban the Box" movement and changed music packaging forever.

Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and ...

The Compact Disc is 40 years old, and for those of us who remember its introduction it still has that sparkle of a high-tech item even as it slides into oblivion at the hands of streaming music ...

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.

By way of contrast, CD requires precious little expertise to get great results and offers higher quality for less, although the number of inexpensive CD players ain’t what it used to be. Increasingly ...

Fans of singer Lorde say copies of her latest album won't work in CD players. Virgin, the newest release from the New Zealand ...

The clear disc, along with the 20-page full-color booklet and jewel case, are meant to be fully recyclable. Visually, the CD is absolutely stunning and would ...

Forget vinyl - the compact disc is your format ‘du jour’ in 2025 and here’s why ...

You need to manually reconfigure the disk by shrinking or compacting it. When the disk is full, open the Edit Disk wizard in Hyper-V Manager and choose to shrink or compact the virtual disk.