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 ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...

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 ...

Memorializing the Compact Disc. Once upon a time, the CD was the ubiquitous music platform. Our story outlines how the disc-based music technology was adopted, loved and eventually abandoned by a ...