CDs. They're affordable, easy to find, and you can rip lossless digital audio files from them. Now that computers with ...

The technology built into some CDs to stop people copying them is futile, according to a computer scientist who has put today’s antipiracy systems under the microscope. He believes the continual ...

These days it’s a given: Buying and listening to CDs is passé. Portable music means an iPod or other MP3 player. If most of what you like to listen to now isn't already stored on your computer, it ...

Music company Sony BMG, yielding to consumer concern, said on Wednesday it was recalling music CDs containing copy-protection software that acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer.

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 ...

Help, I'm stumped! I just bought a new CD and the disc is labeled "Enhanced CD". When I insert it into my computer's CD drive, it opens up the music video of the feature song on the CD but none of the ...

Yesterday`s high-technology is today`s ho-hum. Three years ago, sealed aluminum platters called ”hard disks” for microcomputers were really high tech. With a 10 megabyte hard disk, the equivalent of 4 ...

My dad, who is in his 70s, needs to do something to replace his 3 failing 300 CD changers (almost completely full). He wants to keep his speakers, as he has since very nice ones for his living room, ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

The music industry has been rocked by technology since CNET's start in 1995 and so has how we discover, create, collect and listen to it. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been ...