SiliconUser has a great piece on the history of the Compact Disc. The most popular music medium to date, the CD actually has quite a complex history that makes for a great read. Turns out the idea for ...

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 ...

In honor of Earth Day, let's return to perhaps the single biggest environmental disaster in music history: the longbox. When compact discs first moved into broader usage, they were shipped in ...

2:34 Edmonton record lovers and owners react to vinyl outselling CDs When Luminate, the company that monitors music sales and streaming consumption, released its weekly numbers last week, I sighed ...

It`s more compact than a compact disc. It costs less than an album. Some are hailing it as the replacement for the 45-rpm single. The item in question is the 3-inch CD, or CD-3. Though it`s the latest ...