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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are making music, which one is better: CD or vinyl? Since the vinyl record format’s recent comeback, there has been an increasing discourse about what physical audio format is better between ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

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 ...

In the last column, I mentioned that I had ordered a “super-sized greatest hits CD … with 50 songs” of Bing Crosby music. Also, I mentioned that I’ve been buying CDs again. A friend asked me about ...

Since we last looked into the ongoing resurrection of the classic digital disc, even more CD playing devices have caught our eye. Here’s an update featuring the latest in standalones and separates, ...