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 ...

Compact discs, or CDs, were revolutionary when they first emerged as a new medium for listening to music in the 1980s. Part of their success is alluded to in the name itself: the slim, compact size of ...

Streaming music platforms have been in the news quite a bit recently, and not for good reasons. A lot of people who use streaming music services (which includes virtually all of us) are also quite ...

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 ...

You're probably familiar with the vinyl resurgence. The trend, which has been happening for years now, sees a new generation becoming acquainted with vinyl records, as well as record players or ...

In brief: As with so many retro items, it seems that the next thing making a comeback is the CD. The humble compact disc is experiencing a vinyl-like resurgence that has seen CD music sales increase ...

When the Los Angeles-based indie rock group Sure Sure left home for a nationwide tour last month, the band members didn’t think to take a lot of CDs with them. Instead, they pressed their full-length ...

The year was 1982. The U.S. was at the tail end of a bruising recession that had lasted for several years. Ronald Reagan was the president. First Blood and Halloween III: Season of the Witch were ...

Vinyl is booming, streaming services are more popular than ever, and we’re all depressed. This means one thing and one thing only: it’s time to reassess CDs. Yes, friends, you read that correctly. The ...

For the Autumn edition of City AM The Magazine, Killian Faith-Kelly explores the CD revival and what it says about Gen Z listening habits About a month ago, I read about some Lorde fans complaining ...

I can’t even remember the last time I actually held a CD mixtape, much less played one. But there’s a CD wallet kicking around in storage that’s filled with unassuming silver discs doodled on with ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) just released its midyear compilation of recorded music industry sales data for 2020. Although the numbers follow trends that have existed in the ...