On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new ...

Re “CDs That Block Copying May Herald a Revolution,” Jan. 6: When I purchase compact discs for myself, I usually either listen to them through my computer CD player or I convert them to MP3s ...

Windows Media Player allows you to copy music from a CD to your hard disk. This process will not delete any file from the CD and takes very less time. This article will show you how to copy music from ...

But apparently someone at Microsoft is still rocking a CD player, because a forthcoming ... of copying the uncompressed music of a CD onto a computer, typically in a compressed format like MP3.

CD players are fast becoming an endangered species ... The Linux-based BDP-1 is a standalone music player, though it can be used with a computer, iPhone, or iPad. The BDP-1's graphic interface ...

Though the DM13 is indeed a portable CD player in the spirit of those 1980s ... a USB port (which can send digital audio directly to a computer), there’s an optical port, and a line-level ...

Those big, bulky boomboxes and portable Walkmans were kicked to the curb for computer CD drives or MP3 players. The music industry took it on the chin. Once MP3 players started to take over in the ...

It was priced at $599.95, which is roughly $1,680 in 2024.Another big invention that wasn’t so large in size was the portable CD-player. This “handy-dandy” device could fit in a pocket and ...