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Possibly the best part about listening to a CD is that the audio quality is wonderful. CDs have lossless audio with a transfer rate of 16-bit/44.1kHz, meaning you get tracks with a low noise floor and ...

A Napster screenshot from 2001. Wikimedia Commons. Oddly enough, the CD's digital format hastened its own downfall. By the late 1990s, the prices of computer CD-ROM drives had dropped and software ...

You already have a load of music just waiting to make its way to your computer and iOS device--your CD library. Here are the steps for turning your discs into digital files.

He works at a Finnish computer security firm and he tested some of the Van Zant CDs himself. Cuponin says that little pop-up box does not provide users with enough information.

What.cd, an invite-only music torrent website first launched in 2007, has been shut down after a raid by French authorities. The private tracker offered free (and often illegal) access to a ...

Reports are beginning to turn up around the Web that discuss how certain CDs from Sony Music come with a Trojan horse-based digital restrictions management (DRM) technology that surreptitiously ...

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 ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu ... The first prototype arrived in 1979 to play back music but was adapted into the CD-ROM format in 1985, ...

AutoPlay in Windows 11/10. When you connect devices to your Windows computer, the AutoPlay feature starts running automatically and begins playing media such as music, images, and videos.

Listen up – burning CDs and copyright law. Listen up – ... you can burn it in order to play on your portable music player, computer hard drive, etc. The law, however, ...