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How Do Compact Discs (CDs) Work?

What is a compact disc (CD)? A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry.CD-ROM drives employ a ...
Wired

Compact Disc is 25 Years Old

An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced ...
American Songwriter

Why the Compact Disc (CD) Was the Last Great Music Medium

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

The compact disc era may finally be entering its hospice stage

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 ...
USA Today

40 years after birth of CDs, fans remember the arrival: 'It seemed like a leap into the future'

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Record Music From a Compact Disc to an iPod

Carrying around dozens of CDs can be a cumbersome task, so it makes a lot of sense to record the music from those discs for playback on an easier-to-carry iPod. Apple's iTunes software makes this ...
CNN

Rock on! The compact disc turns 30

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 ...
Wired

Small Disc Makes Big Music

DataPlay has secured four major record labels, representing more than half of the popular music market, to support its new digital media, which promises to be far less expensive and offer higher ...
The Sun

The introduction of the compact disc, or CD, was the beginning of a ‘digital revolution’ which now dominates electronic media.

The introduction of the compact disc, or CD, was the beginning of a ‘digital revolution’ which now dominates electronic media. Introduced in 1982, the CD was slow to catch on. The sound was crisp and ...
Inverse

How Long Until CD Rot Destroys Every Kanye West Compact Disc? Not Very

Kanye West is over CDs: By releasing The Life of Pablo solely via a Tidal stream and referring to his blank album packaging for 2013’s Yeezus as an “open casket to CDs,” West pledged his allegiance to ...
BBC Entertainment

Is music safe on compact disc?

Compact discs were sold as the durable alternative to vinyl - but anyone who opens the case of an ageing CD may be in for a nasty surprise. Earlier this year, US web designer Dan Koster found 15% of ...