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 ...

Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a time warp. But before you feel like you’re being sucked along with me into a dark vortex, let me explain. This is my own personal time warp and I’ve lived here in ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently released recorded music sales revenue figures for 2016 and some of the historical music sales data from the RIAA are displayed in the two ...

Independent music critic Christian Bordal reviews artists for Day to Day, and wrote this report on his favorite songs and CDs of the past year: The following is a list of the 50 CDs that most captured ...

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 ...

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 ...

The year was 1982. The U.S. was at the tail end of a bruising recession that had lasted for several years. Ronald Reagan was the president. First Blood and Halloween III: Season of the Witch were ...

Car manufacturers have stopped including CD players as most drivers use streaming – but with greater choice, are we losing something too? Every time I get in my car and plug my phone in, an ...

A coalition of label marketers worked with MTV, radio stations and music stars to sell skeptical executives on the format — and delivered a boom that lasted for nearly 20 years. By Steve Knopper On ...

Even though digital is on the upswing, physical is still performing relatively well on a global basis -- if not in the U.S. market, where CD sales were down 18.5 percent last year. But things are… By ...

I expected David Bowie’s death to make me nostalgic, but not this way. Like many people, I spent the days after his passing relistening to Bowie records I hadn’t played in years. One night, it felt ...