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 ...

Philips and Sony would join forces to continue development and work on bringing CDs to the public. The first 50 commercially available CD titles were released in Japan on October 1st, 1982, followed ...

It's the U.K. release of Now That's What I Call Music 4, the first one ever put on CD. Only 500 copies were originally pressed, but a reissue hit shelves in 2019 so don't get too excited if you ...

The Q5 is built around a 32-bit, 8-channel ESS Sabre ES9028PRO DAC (32-bit / 768kHz), and since the prototype was unveiled, ...

Designed as an optical disc format with higher-quality sound than a CD, DVD-Audio never caught on. Neither did SACD, a competing next-generation music format (see SACD). However, music in DVD ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. It’s a well known fact that CD sales have been going down, and fast, for some time now. Ever since people got the internet in their ...

The head of ERA, Kim Bayley, called 2024 a "banner year" for music, with sales at more than double the low point of 2013. "We can now say definitively - music is back," she added in a statement.