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 ...

At Begyle Brewing on Sunday, June 8, the Chicago Independent Radio Project hosted its third CD Blowout Sale. CHIRP founder and general manager Shawn Campbell says the sale’s debut in May 2022 was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline, it seems. Everyone is streaming, so those charity shops once stacked high with ...

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 ...