The build starts by scavenging the movement out of a cheap plastic clock. A CD is then glued to the front of the movement to serve as a reflective backing plate. For numerals, the clock uses F3 ...

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 by ...

My own collection of Christmas favourites was once carefully curated on cassette, but since my last idler wheel gave out I had avoided moving to either disc or stream for the festive theme ...

CompactGUI is a great GUI for the inbuilt compact.exe. Now you can easily compress folders and save some disk space. And the best part is the files and subfolders will still be accessible even ...

The Shanling CR60 provides CD playback and ripping capability for a very reasonable $299, but it requires an external DAC.

Besides, it brings a new Media Player version with a somewhat unexpected change: Audio CD support. Compact Discs are no longer everyone's favorite way to play music. Still, some old-school ...

The Best Audiophile CD Players of 2024 include Hegel, Luxman, Marantz, Rotel and more for the ultimate in compact disc playback. Listening to music on physical media isn’t dead and vinyl records (and ...

Sony is officially ending production of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the industry association for the music industry, has released its annual mid-year revenues statistics. The one statistic that made a lot of ...