The Q5 is built around a 32-bit, 8-channel ESS Sabre ES9028PRO DAC (32-bit / 768kHz), and since the prototype was unveiled, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the recent resurgence of vinyl records in Japan and ...

Thump Records turns 35 this year. This is how the L.A. label has kept oldies alive through pop-up trucks, word-of-mouth and a ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. It’s a well known fact that CD sales have been going down, and fast, for some time now. Ever since people got the internet in their ...

The head of ERA, Kim Bayley, called 2024 a "banner year" for music, with sales at more than double the low point of 2013. "We can now say definitively - music is back," she added in a statement.

Throughout the 20th century, the dominant method of music distribution changed many times over, from live-only performances to records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3 players. But the most drastic ...