The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic Will Come in a Delightful Fake Accordion
Can you believe “Weird Al” Yankovic has been parodying popular music for 33 years now? It’s a testament to his talents…
How To Add Your Old CDs to Spotify
If you jumped on the music-streaming bandwagon, there’s a good chance you’ve been left with a shelf full of CDs…
This high-speed CD cannon is a killer way to destroy old CDs
Give a person a fish and they’ll eat for a day. Give a person a workshop full of tools and they’ll build an utterly…
Starbucks Is Quitting CDs, and So Am I
Nearly two years ago, I bought a CD while waiting for a bucket-sized iced coffee, sweet with a splash of whole milk. It…
I Just Bought My First CD Since 2006 and You Should Too
Hello. I'm a 33-year old father of two, and I just bought a Taylor Swift CD on Amazon. Let me explain the CD part.
How Long Will CDs Actually Last?
Once upon a time, CDs were a shiny new technology with a promise of lasting (nearly) forever. In those halcyon days of…
The Only Motion In This Music Video Is From Spinning CDs
Phenakistoscopes are old school machines that used illustrated discs to create animation. Kind of the round version of…
What Is High-Resolution Audio?
This week, Sony unleashed a battery of expensive audio gear that claims to support "high-resolution audio" which, like…
Are Cassettes the Best Music Format for Toddlers?
As many of us do, I recently ended up in a Facebook conversation about parenting or music. In this case, it was about…
All It Takes Is a Lego Jukebox To Make Your CDs Almost Useful Again
Be honest, when was the last time you actually listened to a CD? Granted, it's not exactly hard to throw one into the…
This Impeccably Accurate CD Player Scans Your Disc Multiple Times for Errors
It turns out that even the most expensive of home stereo CD players are still occasionally susceptible of incorrectly…
Have You Been Buying CDs This Whole Time?
How many CDs did you buy in the last 15 years? Because if you bought some, and you bought them from Amazon they're…
Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free (Update: It's Just Launched!)
CNET is reporting that Amazon is planning to launch a reward scheme for CD buyers. When they purchase music in its…
Will We Finally See a 1 TB Optical Disc in 2015?
Compared to a C-ROM's meager 700 MB storage space, and a DVD's 5-ish GB, a Blu-Ray's 25 GB is pretty impressive. All…
Mammoth Outdoor Artwork Brings 100,000 CDs Back to Life
If CD's aren't dead already, they're dying. After all, plenty of devices being made don't even have optical drives any…
Happy 30th Birthday to the CD, Digital Music's Patient Zero
30 years ago today, a game-changing pair of products were announced: Billy Joel's 52nd Street on Compact Disc, and the…
What Have You Done with All Your Old CDs and DVDs?
Because we're not all artists who can turn dead media into a gigantic skull, I'm curious as to what you guys have done…
A Gigantic Skull Made From VHS Tapes and CDs Is a Fitting After Life for Dead Media
I have a gigantic case full of CDs that I have no idea what to do with. Do I toss them out? Do I save them for my…
Digital Music Sales Beat Physical Music Sales for the First Time
It took longer than I thought it would (because physical music sales still makes the monies) but digital music sales…