EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, ...

The number of Internet users paying for digital music increased by just over 8 million in 2008 to 36 million Internet users, and purchases of online digital music downloads increased by 29 percent ...

If you listen to much tech talk, you’ll know how easy it is to forget about the humble compact disc. Digital downloads are the only hip way to purchase DRMed, lossy music without album art, but most ...

Vinyl also outsold CDs for the first time since 1987. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) published their statistics for 2022 and the results are largely unsurprising. Streaming ...

It’s no secret that the compact disc is a medium on the decline, but its death is one of the slowest — ahem — on record. The ever-growing download pool offers no substantial physical substitute, and ...