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 ...

MP3s are very convenient and supported by many devices from portables to car audio systems. But no matter how high the bit rate of an MP3 file, it's still a lossy format, meaning some of the sound ...

CD players are making a comeback, but they're not the CD players you remember. New music players deliver Bluetooth and other ...

Vinyl is booming, streaming services are more popular than ever, and we’re all depressed. This means one thing and one thing only: it’s time to reassess CDs. Yes, friends, you read that correctly. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) just released its midyear compilation of recorded music industry sales data ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Some music fans are trying to fake out CD copy protection technology with the stroke of a felt-tip pen. The tactic is being used in Europe, where Sony is trying out a copy ...

When the Los Angeles-based indie rock group Sure Sure left home for a nationwide tour last month, the band members didn’t think to take a lot of CDs with them. Instead, they pressed their full-length ...

Reports are beginning to turn up around the Web that discuss how certain CDs from Sony Music come with a Trojan horse-based digital restrictions management (DRM) technology that surreptitiously ...

As if the record business doesn't have enough problems, the coming trend in magazine publishing may be free CDs. While magazine publishers tout the arrival of authentic interactivity and deeper ...

CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with sales of pirated discs jumping an estimated 50 percent from the previous year, according to an industry report released ...