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

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 ...

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 ...

It appears that, much the recent return to vinyl records, many music fans are fueling a resurgence of interest in CDs. How, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

Starbucks, Pottery Barn and other retailers have been releasing mood and holiday-themed compilation CDs. Musician and writer David Was explains why releasing records this way proves almost risk-free, ...

Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music Mark Simpson, Guy Johnston, Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt, Matthias Balzat, Goldfield Ensemble (Delphian) The Concerto-Rhapsody was published in 1967, an expansive ...

A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable. Produced by LeBron James and ...

Thirty-five years after the format was introduced as one of the greatest audio advancements since the birth of recorded music — and unwittingly unleashed digitized music into the wild — the once ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Our chief classical music critic writes in praise of going to a shelf, pulling out a recording and sitting down to listen. By ...