Step aside, vinyl et al.: there's one physical audio format that's a cut above the rest, and it's called 4K UHD Blu-ray.

Over the years, we've seen a variety of physical music formats hit the market, each bringing a unique set of strengths and ...

Whether it is a collection of emails from your children, family photographs and films, or recordings – both personal and commercial – you want to store these digitized mementos properly so that they ...

In the late Eighties, the future of music was to be found in a research lab at the Sony Corporation’s sprawling audio campus ...

Gen Z’s obsession with physical media and backlash against algorithmic listening has sparked an unlikely revival Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a journalist he has often ...

Small, reusable and designed to replace the CD, Sony expected the MiniDisc to become the future of music - SSPL/Getty Images In the late Eighties, the future of music was to be found in a research lab ...

Shanling has announced the EC Play, the most compact and most affordable portable CD player the Chinese manufacturer has produced to date. The EC Play is not positioned as an audiophile statement, but ...

Compact discs were sold as the durable alternative to vinyl - but anyone who opens the case of an ageing CD may be in for a nasty surprise. Earlier this year, US web designer Dan Koster found 15% of ...

Much like how Millennials brought back a love of vinyl over a decade ago to record shops, Gen-Z seems to be obsessed with bringing back CDs in a big way. Call it nostalgia, call it frustration with ...

The longevity of recordable compact discs (CD-Rs), recordable digital versatile discs (DVD±Rs) Endnote 1 and recordable Blu-rays (BD-Rs) is uncertain, leading to a widespread lack of trust by ...

First, launch the Music app on your Mac. You can open Spotlight with ⌘+Space and type "Music" to find it. Next, if you are working with an album or EP, create a playlist that contains the songs you ...

Download the English translation patch (more information in the Patching Instructions section): Note that there are several options, explained below, for applying this English translation patch. All ...