A Japanese-born multimedia artist whose associates included John Cage and Yoko Ono, he pushed digital music past its breaking ...

Compact Disc’s star has well and truly faded. At its peak, at the turn of the century, just short of a billion silver discs were sold in the USA in a year. Fast forward to 2022 and that number had ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s, we started hearing about Super Audio CDs, an upgraded version of the compact disc co-developed by the OGs of the technology, Sony and Philips. An SACD could store more than four ...

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

Dire Straits’s slick, luxuriant album helped turn the CD into the shiny, indestructible future of audio. What went wrong?

EMI remained skeptical that compact discs were the right format for their music. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 2 February 1983. 1983: EMI and Compact Discs. Video, 00:06:271983: EMI and ...

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.

So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline, it seems. Everyone is streaming, so those charity shops once stacked high with boxes of discarded vinyl records now have stacks of old CDs instead at a buck ...

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