Compact discs are seeing a modest resurgence as younger listeners rediscover physical music formats, even as long-term sales ...

It appears that, much the recent return to vinyl records, many music fans are fueling a resurgence of interest in CDs. How, and why, is this happening?

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 ...

Dan Levine loves watching his guests light up when they see his DVD-lined bookcases and drawers in his Brooklyn apartment. It’s as if they’ve traveled back in time to 2006, he said. “It is a really ...

Most of us store our favorite music on a digital playlist, but March marks an anniversary for those of us who remember when music came on something physical. Forty years ago, in March 1983, Billy Joel ...

Along with the new recording of Man With a Load of Mischief, Original Cast Records has distributed two other recent show CDs. The more interesting of the pair is a 2003 studio-cast disc of a ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

Starbucks, Pottery Barn and other retailers have been releasing mood and holiday-themed compilation CDs. Musician and writer David Was explains why releasing records this way proves almost risk-free, ...

JAY Records has been devoting considerable attention to recordings of productions by the York Theatre Company, including The Musical of Musicals, I Sing!, The It Girl, Lucky Stiff, Prodigal, and ...

A new documentary from Paramount+, How Music Got Free, tells the inside story of how albums shed their exoskeletons and became something more ethereal and less profitable. Produced by LeBron James and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Our chief classical music critic writes in praise of going to a shelf, pulling out a recording and sitting down to listen. By ...