Though it was initially intended to just play music, the CD became quite useful for storing data. The CD could hold multiple megabytes, which meant that individuals could store lots of music or other personal data onto it. Though the CD was gradually replaced over time, it was still a revolutionary and multifaceted disc for its time. It also helped inspire different versions of itself, while influencing the musical devices of today.
Below is a video explain the differences between CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqnlqGKjZM
Callan Sramek
The introduction of the CD in the 1980s replaced things like pre-recorded cassets, video game cartridges, and more. While it was originally intended to play only sound recordings, it was eventually adapted to play movies, etc. In the 2000s the CD was being replaced by other forms of digital storage in the music industry, but is still largely used for movies and video games. However, with things like Netflix and Steam, watching movies and playing video games has become more accessible being that consumers don’t have to leave the comfort of their home to accuire these things.
this article is very long lol but stores lots of information about the benfites of having a cd, and what it carries on the physical object. Althought it has grown with different devices it can be used with or played on its value while being manufactured has influenced ideas of many creators. Now people are able to place CD’s on their game counsels wiithout any problems.
In the video i attached below you will see the difference from how CDs were used and produced versus now and the uses of now. CDs are greater than vinyls https://www.laweekly.com/why-cds-may-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl/
The idea of CDs being better than vinyl’s makes me think of the value we hold in vinyl’s today, along with other vintage music recordings- such as the cassette tape. Artists revamp and sell vinyl’s and cassettes while CD sales are hard to come by, which beg the question- if/when CDs become a thing of the past, will they later start to become popular again?
Vinyl’s and cassettes bring very good sound quality, many can agree on that, but with CDs, I honestly feel like it’s just the feeling you get when you buy an artists CD that you like- knowing you get to support them even if it’s just a little.
When will CDs enter the much known stage of being forgotten, discovered and revamped by artists, and sold as “nice” items?
Amanda Horton
CD’s were originally introduced by Philips and Sony as another way to store music. They were later used to store data and were wildly popular, dominating the music-market for many years. Although for music their popularity and sales began to decline in the early 2000s, they can still be found all over industries. Here is an article further detailing their decline,
It is incredible that the CD was almost, in a way, an upgraded vinyl disk. While vinyl disks needed to be pressed by a master copy or wax cylinders, at their best, needed to be molded and shaped a certain way to produce sound, the CD took a lot of this physical process out along with some of the risk of owning vinyl or wax cylinders. CDs were instead “engraved” with a laser allowing for much more dense information and the material the CDs were made of (while still susceptible to damage) was arguable more durable and longer lasting than vinyl and wax.
I think that most of us forget how important these inventions were that led to how we play music today and even simpler things such as where and how we store our data. The CD, when first released, cost around $1000 and although the price was very hefty this did not prevent the sales of the product skyrocketing. A clever move made by Philips and Sony was their collaboration. Together they made the disc and the CD player universal eliminating worries of having to purchase from the same store. This strategic move allowed for the CD to dominate the market! Lastly, what I liked most was the fact that people were constantly looking for a way to improve the CD and it led to CDs such as the CD-ROM (read-only memory) and ultimately, the storing of data on the disc.
This article speaks on the amazing innovations that came to create the CD. One could say that the CD was a smaller more compact version of the Vinyl. CD’s became the new trend that replaced the vinyl and cassettes. Even though CD’s are good for business due to their easy production, they do have flaws. The life of the CD is short, to and estimated 50 years of life. They are also extremely easy to scratch and tarnish the quality of the game, album, or memory.
Please check out my link that speaks more on the topic of the life of a CD
I find it interesting to read about the history of the CD during the age in which it has had a steady decline and seen it fall into its predecessor, vinyl. If the current trend of people buying vinyls rather than CDs as they have for the past 30 years, we can see them becoming just as obsolete as the cassette and iPods. Even major shops and artists such as Austin’s Waterloo Records and Bruce Springsteen, respectively, have largely abandoned the format, as stated in the following article https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-end-of-owning-music-how-cds-and-downloads-died-628660/ All and all, I can’t say i’ll miss them too much myself but i’ll enjoy watching how this once music format giant will fare in the future.
I’m a big CD fan myself. I grew up with a large collection of them and I still carry some in my car. As much as I enjoy them, I never thought about how they were invented or the technology behind them. It’s fascinating how they became a widely used format not just for music, but for movies, computer programs and video games. I also consider CDs a fragile format, as they can easily fall victim to wear and tear. I will always appreciate them.
Analisa Duran
I think it’s fascinating that Philips and Sony were able to create a somewhat smaller, portable version of an extremely popular medium of music at the time, the vinyl. Even though the cost of production was high, they took the risk and created a medium that became very important to the music industry. The process was much easier than it was to make vinyls, and CDs quickly took over. Even though the original purpose was to hold music, they were able to make many different formats that could do other things, such as hold information and store programs. It’s kind of sad that after all that work, CDs rapidly faded out due to the rise of Internet and new digital formats that are able to store music and information.
I found it very interesting that CDs were intended for storage purposes, rather than just to play music or watching videos. I had always thought of CDs as a way to either listen to my favorite songs or watch movies. However, looking back, my family and I did indeed use CDs as a storage component. For instance, we would store many family videos and songs we really liked so we could always have them in our reach to either listen to or watch in the future. From reading this article, I became more interested in finding out more things about CDs. Here is a video from 1982 introducing the invention of the CD and all of the new and improved components that came with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8
Charles Cordts
It is interesting that the very first ways we listened to music played by mechanisms alone were digital. The piano roll and music box disc, both invented before the wax cylinder (an analog format) were digital, the information on their material being in either an “on” or “off” mode (in this case, leaving a hole in the material for “on” and the rest of the material acting as a constant “off”). This technique was very easy to implement with pressurized air running through the holes, different tracks activating different notes. However, allowing automatic physical systems to engrave information directly to a surface was much easier than planning out a piece on paper, so analog systems became most popular until computers became sophisticated enough to rewrite physical waves as binary information and manufacturing techniques had enough fidelity to produce high denisity of information on small surfaces. Thus, we returned to digital information techiques for producing music on the compact disc a century after it was first utilized.
When CD’s first released they were single sided which was good, but as they evolved to double sided they great in popularities. Being able to hold over 8 gigabytes was a major thing making cd’s able to hold double to amount. CD’s shaped the way for download by letting the public burn together their own playlists on CDs.
CD’s were a very important introduction into new forms of digital storage, eventually leading to the streaming of music online. CD’s allowed a more specific way to enjoy music the way it was preferred to a given audience. In a way, it was a more portable version of the vinyl and allowed for more storage which meant more media to enjoy for a longer period of time.
The CD was really a game changer in the music industry. I had no idea that there were so many types of CDs each with their own set purpose. While it is a great thing that the CD was invented, there’s also a downside: the impact it has on our environment. Due to the harmful materials it is made of such as poly-carbonate plastic, it causes environmental problems. Here is a link which talks about the environmental impact of Vinyls, CDs, etc.
I think its really cool to see how the CD changed. It was first used for music only and then became the standard for data storage and putting other stuff on it. Its cool to see how CD’s are still in use today even though they are considered older tech now.
This is a link to more CD info. https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
Jennifer Choi
The CD was developed by Phillips and Sony releasing in 1982. The original CD was created to store and play only sound recordings but later adapted storage of data. During the past in 1982 a CD could store more data compared to a personal hard drive. The CD changed the music industry because it created a new way to listen to music it is more compact and smaller compared to vinyl.
The invention of the compact disc revolutionized how technology not only played music, but also assisted in the potential for computers being able to store more space in their hard drives. They then took over music formats and were the new fab in listening to everyone’s favorite artists, and were still easily traceable for music sales. As the successor to vinyl, the CD was much more portable due to its size and didn’t need a conventional player. Although the CD eventually faded out of the music culture, it is still more prevalent today than its predecessors, and is still being used around the world where the digital footprint hasn’t touched.
I grew up in the age of the disc, and owned many of my own. I like having this as the article to write about because I am more familiar with it rather than the articles in the past. The disc was actually a really great invention because they were affordable and able to store a lot of information on them. People could buy albums, record their own albums on them, put demos on them, store information and so much more. I feel like the age of discs were brief, though. Although they are still used to this day for video games and official albums, now with technology we can just download everything on our devices with no need for physical copies (unless you’d prefer that). Here is more information on the disc/CD. https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question287.htm
Amariah Rangel
Growing up, compact discs were the way to go if you wanted to get your hands on some music. My family was constantly buying and burning their own playlists onto the CD. However, I never realized how CDs could hold more than just music. The CD changed the music industry because not only was the CD very easy to use, but it was at a size in which you can take with you, especially if you had a CD player. As of 2019, the decline of CD sales is pretty noticeable because of the rise of streaming and the comeback of vinyl. I provided a graph that shows you the decline of CDs and it also talks about the reasons why it did.
Two things that genuinely surprised me, or made me think, was the prominence of Sony in developing new mediums of listening to music and storing data, and the fact that CD’s at one point in time had a greater storage capacity than a PC hard drive at the time. Sony, in my personal experience was solely a company that produced gaming systems, the PlayStation versions 2 through currently 5 (these are the systems that I have owned at one point in time, or currently), but to my dismay we have unearthed some facts that us newcomers were clueless too. Beginning in 1982 Sony produced the first compact disks, later on developing the Walkman, then of course the gaming systems and cameras and televisions, which truly peaked my interest. Also, compact disks are not only intended to listen to your favorite tunes, as we just witnessed, compacts also come in form of DVD disks and game disks, which in turn hold a lot of data, but to hold more data than a computer just seems asinine. Granted the year was 1982 and the world wide web ceased to exist and i’m pretty sure no one had any prominent business on computers back then, so I guess it makes sense…
Here is an article on the Godfathers of tech, Sony, and they have an offer you cannot refuse; its probably a discount or something, they didn’t tell me. https://www.fastcompany.com/company/sony
Drew Somers
The CD is essentially an evolution of vinyl with modern technology when you get into it. Replace ridges and grooves with microscopic pits, and a stylus with a laser and you have a CD. The benefit to a CD for audiophiles is storage. Vinyl has limits to the storage of data not only in physical size, but composition of data as well. For instance, deep bass lines on vinyl are impractical to encode on the disc itself, therefore the pre-amp has to compensate before any actual sound comes out of the speakers. With a CD, ALL of the data from the original studio recording can be stored and played back with no loss of sound quality and no messing around with a phono stage. That being said, most audiophiles still prefer vinyl even though a CD may technically be better for the same reasons people prefer mechanical watches or air-cooled Porsches. Something about wringing the highest quality experience out of analog or mechanical formats in any manner intrigues people.
Seeing that CDs were originally made just for sound recordings, and later developed into so much more is quite amazing. We can now store data, watch movies, burn pictures, and much more. Reading about all the different types of CDs, and what they are designed for is awesome to know. I had no idea that there are so many different types. Unfortunately, growing up I listened to more stuff on MP3 rather than CD. I was born in 2000 so CDs started going down in popularity music wise.
CD’s are a real interesting piece of technology to this day. The rise of CD was the initial start of a digital world. The idea of being able to store an abundance amount of media into a compact disc is astonishing at the time because everything else was so bulky. Discs were distributed everywhere and for different purposes but then the fall came. Just like CDs came in as a convenience statement, digital downloaded media and streaming started taking over because it’s more convenient than CDs. CDs will truly leave a mark in technology but it won’t be long til it completely disappears.
The CD is probably one of my favorite inventions because of the amount of nostalgia it provides me with. I remember going to circuit city to pick up 808s and Heartbreak when it came out and buying something to hold and look at while listening to the music. The history of the CD is probably one of the more unique ones when it comes to how the collaboration between Phillips and Sony transformed the media industry. I think more corporations should put their talent and money into a room and have them just create whatever they want because ideas like the CD can be made
The story behind the CD is a very rare event considering that two rival companies came together to produce a product for the consumer. Historically, recording/music companies created products that would work with only their playing devices allowing them to double up on sales for themselves, however, in return making it more difficult and expensive for the consumer. By Phillips and Sony taking out their selfishness and creating a product that could be played across a variety of players it allowed for the great success of CD’s throughout the 90’s and into the early 2000’s.
The CD,or compact Disc was a revolutionary item. It introduced an interesting way of listening to your music while on the go. Inspired bythe sony walkman, it helped create the portable CD player. Allowing teens and adults to listen to music while on the go. Though it was sad to see it slowly die as digital streaming became its competitor.
Jachae Cooper
The creation of the compact disk was a major turning point within the music industry. It became an easier way to listen to music on the go other than having to go through the complications of utilizing a cassette tape. Being able to have multiple songs on one disk and not having to rewind to restart a song or being able to skip to other songs easily was important for buyers. I remember when I was younger getting different CDs whether they had music or movies on them and collecting them. Even though there are different ways to get music and movies, CDs are still a fact within the music industry.
If you would like to read more about the popularity of CDs take time to read the link below : https://www.salon.com/2018/02/10/the-cd-is-dead-not-so-fast/
Nicholas Velazquez
Initially created to store music only, the compact disc sparked a new generation of storage and sales not just for the music industry but the computer world as well. The upside to CDs, when compared to vinyl discs, is that it was smaller and could hold more data. However, the CD was known for its fragility and require more care. I remember always having a casing of multiple CDs that would always eventually scratch and ruin a CDs integrity. In terms of popularity I believe that the rise in vinyl sales versus the drop of CDs sales is solely because of the popularity of the more vintage medium. Vinyl may not scratch as easily but the size and less efficeny of the medium doesnt make sense to purchase when compared to a CD. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vinyl-cds-revenue-growth-riaa-880959/
Andrew Hernandez
The CD was an astonishing innovation. Its compact size and 16 bit digital storage value made it the start of the digital age of music. The progress in developing and producing this product demonstrated it was possible to use digital optical recording and playback to reproduce audio signals at a high quality. Many companies raced to reach this level of technology. Sony and Philips used this concept of digital optical recording to set the standard for the new age of recording.
James Russell patented the first manifestation of a compact disc although it had more than a few downfalls compared to the current day CD. In his patent for a scanning device, the disc remained stationary while a beam of light rotated. Other issues include scratches or finger prints causing the disc to be unreadable and having low information density causing the disc to only hold 1 minute of CD quality sound. Once Phillips and Sony took on the task of licensing and creating a better version all of these issues were fixed but the it still doesn’t seem like James Russell gets the credit he deserves. Despite Sony and Phillips far superior product, everything that they tweaked to make CD’s came directly from Russell with relatively minor changes.
Growing up in the era of CDs, I was all too aware of the misfortune called ‘disc rot’. While I was not aware of the title, I knew all too well that any well played CD will eventually scratch and skip, thanks to the non durable materials that compose discs (aluminum, plastic, and lacquer). Compact Discs paved the way for digital mediums for music listening. Having only had analog with the cassette and the vinyl, CDs seemed to be borderline futuristic for its time. James Russell brought about compact discs, and forever changed the recorded music industry. From waiting for your favorite artist to release their new album, and running to the nearest store to buy their CD, to recording a mix of your favorite songs on a blank disc, CDs are on their way out of the music recoding scene, but will remain in our memories.
Rise and Fall of CDs: https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
CDs were great. They had superior sound quality over the other mediums of the time i.e. vinyl and cassette tapes. They could be used to create personal mixes and had Walkmans making them portable. Additionally because of the compact size they were easy to store and transport. CDs provided a more convenient way to listen to music, you no longer had to get up and flip it over, or fast forward to the next song. You could skip right to the song you wanted, or place the song/CD on repeat and listen to it over and over. What was interesting about the article was how long CDs were around before becoming mainstream.
Oddly enough, game consoles started using CD’s because of the amount of data it could hold. The invention of the CD led to inventions such as DVD’s(Which could hold even more data) and Blu-Rays. Eventually the popularity of these formats of music and other sorts of data led to Digital distribution of every one of those forms of entertainment.
We know that cassettes were the most popular format before the compact discs came around. In the early 2000s, we saw cassettes go pretty much extinct as the popularity of CDs grew and their sales dramatically increased. The main section of this wiki page that caught my eye was the manufacturing. The wholesale cost of these CDs were .75 cents to a dollar, but they were selling the pre-recorded CDs at an average of $16.88 a pop. That profit is amazing but it is split between the record company, store, artist, manufacturer, and distributor, which the record company receiving a pretty big chunk, more than the actual artist.
The compact disk revolutionized recorded music making it easy for consumers to buy and use. The CD was capable of holding much more than traditional vinyl making it an upgrade in storage. However, there is debate on whether the quality of the recorded music is the same as vinyl. Since CD’s can only play 192kHz songs it seems to me that vinyl would have cleaner and more crisp sound. CD’s also do not degrade over time and can last forever as long as you do not scratch the bottom of it.
After reading this article, I’ve learned about the multiple innovations that were used to help create the cd. Honestly you could argue that cd’s derived from and were smaller, more compact version vinyls. As time went on cd’s turned into the new thing that replaced cassettes and vinyl’s. Though cd’s are good to use in businesses simply because they’re easy to produce, there’s still flaws. Typically cd have short life spans. Approximately estimated to around 50 years of productivity. Also cd’s are pretty easy to scratch so it messes up the process of it working.
After reading this article, Ive learned about multiple innovations that were used to help create the cd. Honestly you could argue that cd’s derived from and were smaller, more compact version vinyls. As time went on cd’s turned into the new thing that replaced cassettes and vinyls. Though cd’s are good to use in businesses simply because they’re easy to produce, there’s still flaws. Typically cd’s have short life spans. Approximately estimated to around 50 years of productivity. Also cd’s are pretty easy to scratch so it messes up the process of it working. https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-reliable-are-cds-backup-medium
Seonna Collins
The CD was the start of a technological revolution. The CD hit its peak worldwide sales around 2004-2007 but then quickly got replaced by newer inovations like the MP3 player by 2014. Now, we have music apps like Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora to listen to straight from our phones, who knows whats next!
Haley Kaldis
Seeing the evolution of how we playback our music from wax cylinders and vinyls to cassettes and then CD’s, it’s so cool to see how different each item was from the next. Although a CD does look just like a smaller version of a vinyl, it still took time for the official CD to be developed. Something I had also never realized was how much CD’s were really used for storing data and information rather than music. It made a medium not only for artists to put their music on but also a way for other fields such as scientists or engineers to store their date. Below is a cool article I found explaining why we should continue to buy CD’s.
The compact disk or as we call “CD” was created in the time of 1982 by Phillips and Sony. This new form of hearing your favorite music was at the 780 nm wavelength and costed up to $1,000. In the link below, it is 1985 and is a news story on compact discs during the beginning of time where it was a step to new technology. The video goes into depth with how the CD’s are the future for are every day life and how it was an advantage from the vinyl that the people were use to at that time. https://youtu.be/vwrU8s-M-gc
The Invention of the compact disc (CD) was the turning point of recorded music. The sound quality of CD’s were superior to cassettes. CD’s made storing data easier, and overall a more efficient way to listen to music. I grew up listening to my favorite albums on CD’s, and even burning CD’s w my favorite songs on them so I personally loved them.
What I found interesting about this article is how listening to music has evolved. These inventions went from hearing music from a wax cylinder and all types of vinyls and cassettes to then compact discs. It is so crazy learning about how music has evolved over time. Something that stood out to me in this article was that CDs were used for storing data. I now understand why game consoles prefer releasing their games on compact discs. Here is an article that goes in defense of the CD. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/in-defense-of-the-cd-105049/
The CD definitely changed music and how it could be heard when it was first introduced in the early 1980’s. Even though the CD would eventually die out it made it easier for people to listen to music and it even sounded a little better. Personally, I feel the CD was best used to store data, the amount of information it could hold was a big step in terms of technology. The CD Is also used for video games too, although video gamers are starting to switch over to digital games the hard copies should stay around for a bit more time.
When thinking about the compact disc, it is worthy to notice just how much of an impact it was able to make. It was able to replace many types of both audio and video formats, making this one of the most practical ways to see or hear what you wanted. In addition to that, even in an age where everything can be accessed digitally, there are still those who prefer and/or use the compact discs for their appeal and quality. One of these reasons may be that Compact discs are know for their higher quality audio than MP3 files, who are limited to 320kps bit-rate. A common practice is to rip CD’s into FLAC files to preserve the quality from the CD digitally.
This article informed me of multiple things, including the fact that the compact disc was never intended to be a data storage destination. It is very intriguing the fact that there was more than one size to cds, in fact there was 3. I finally understand why the back part of compact discs are color full and reflective as well as it has 5 layers from where the laser beam reads information. Though that tech is very helpful for the time, it sucks that it is very difficult to recycle and its life span is very short. In addition to that there is many more cons to cds, to learn more read this article to get informed !!
The time restraint of 74 or 80 minutes on an audio CD is and essential factor in how it became the successor to both vinyl and tape. Albums recorded on Vinyl were typically limited to just over 40 minutes to maintain decent quality. Double albums like The Wall by Pink Floyd and The Beatles’ eponymous White Album, were products of this time limitation as two physical vinyl records completely packed with music as one singular album. The CD enabled double albums like these to be released on one singular disc, and it also enabled record companies to re-release two separate albums as a double album on one CD disc for sales purposes. More info about double albums can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_album
Ariana Ost
When compact discs were first created they changed how the public listened to music. While they changed how music was listened to they weren’t without faults, scratching for example. I can remember trying to use cds for games or music and it not working because they had been scratched, a family friend had a device that fixed the scratches or at least tried. In the article I’ve linked you can read more about the history of compact discs.
This invention clearly had a huge impact on the world, well at least the parts of the world that were lucky enough to have access to it. It changed the way music was listened to and how it was produced, CDs are still used today, maybe not as widely but there are still a huge number of people prefer CDs to digital music.
Here is more on how CDs impacted Society : https://socialimpactofcds.weebly.com/the-social-impact-of-cds.html
Ashley Whitmire
The compact disc is the first form of digital sound. It changed how the world did media until the internet and streaming evolved. However CDs are still of great importance to today’s music industry. They offer a source of income to artists, music sounds better on CDs, and consumers just love to have those physical copies of albums. There’s nothing better than putting a CD in your car on a long road trip. CDs also allow for data storage. I remember looking through my household CD case and finding blank CDs that had been loaded with family music, pictures, and videos. CDs might not be as popular as they used to be but they still bring a lot to the table, for more information check this article out! https://artglider.com/blog/why-cds-are-still-important
Courtney Valsamakis
It is interesting to know that the CD’s first form of use was for storing only sound recordings and personal data. It was not until the early 2000s that the CD’s digital use was popular for holding music. Also I found it interesting that the first form of CD, invented by James T. Russel, was displayed on transparent foil which was lit behind a high-power halogen lamp. Read more about his invention and the history of the CD in the link provided below. https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history-of-the-compact-disc
Torrey Prukop
The invention of the CD was a big technological advance in the music industry as it was the first form of digital sound. It’s interesting that the CD has stayed around much longer in the music industry versus other forms like cassette tapes or vinyls. This probably has to do with the fact that the CD can be used for much more than music, such as, storing data, movies, videos, and various other things. Included is an article about the history of the use of CD’s. https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
Jacob Vasquez
When the invention of the CD came about it was a huge impact for the music industry. It was cheaper and more efficient in its way and would record longer then what a cosseted tape would. The CD ultimately launch the boom of sony by knocking cosseted tapes out of the business. I found this article that goes more in debt of how the CD came about with years and many inventors that came about of it. https://lowendmac.com/2014/history-of-the-compact-disc/
Zach Beesley
In today’s technology we see the CD being used for many reasons, to include audio CD’s, MIDI, CD-ROM, Video, photo, CD-I, enhanced music CD, and VinylDisc. With all of the different usages for CD’s, writable, re writable, and copy protection as well, we find the usage of the CD becoming more of an everyday thing. The thing, I guess I did not realize, it what is exactly out there and what they do. I know what I use them for or what I want them for but this reading, really gives the breakdown of what each CD does and how much it will hold and what it is best used for. It also gives what the estimated cost is for them and with the demand and technological developments, it is cost effective. Even though this is Wikipedia, still some great and useful information.
Riley Ferris
The Compact Disc was co-developed by Philips and Sony. It was originally used to only hold and play sound recordings but eventually they were able to use it as a storage device. It was ahead of its time because it was able to hold way more data then any other storage device created at the time. With the creation of the compact disc many other inventions came along afterwards. The inventions that were created are still used today for listening, recording, and making music today.
Here is a link to a timeline so you can have a better understanding of the creation of the compact disc:
When technology improves, old technology is forgotten and replaced. CD’s replaced LaserDisc, CD’s were created from the idea of LaserDisc technology. The compact disc (CD’s) were invented in the 80’s by Sony and Phillips. CD’s replaced LaserDisc because they were smaller and cheaper and some would say better. While majority of the population were happy to switch to CD’s, not everybody wanted to make the switch. They’re all LaserDisc preservationist who enjoy the the nostalgic feeling they get for watching the older movies on their original format and feeling the physical copy of a LaserDisc rather than streaming movies online. We have improved technology and moved on to streaming movies and having a digital copy is enough for majority of us. They’re are still people who prefer a physical copy whether it’s a LaserDisc or a CD.
The CD came out and replaced a lot of irrelevant technology for good reasons, we now have a way to make video games and DVDs of movies! I remember the old days of buying an album on CD so you could place it into a machine and have it play the one album. Due to technology changing again we are in an age of digitally downloading and streaming all these platforms which is replacing CD and DVD. Below is an article about the CD!
When the CD was released it basically ended all other sources of technology, we use CDs everyday if you play video games, listen to music in the car and also watch movies. When i was in elementary i use to buy albums on CD even if i had a music app on my phone. Music sounded way different if it was played on the CD.That was back then though when the CD era was actually booming, now everything is digitally use on phones. We can watch movies on the phone and we can also listen to music on the phones or other devices.
Lesley Ibarra
The Compact Disc (CD) stores different data. There are different sizes with different capacities. It was first released to store audio and it turned into a way to store data. CDs would hold more data than the typical hard drive, but now the hard drive holds more data and is more popular. CDs evolved to holding audio files and movies. They slowly started to decline, but can be found in every store as it is still used in the music industry. I still remeber buying my first CD when I was around 10, and it is crazy to see us evolving to the streaming era.
With the introduction of the CD, all other forms of music recording were proven irrelevant. Now this single disk could hold entire MB on the CD, which at the time, was a substantial amount of music. The days of finicky cassette tape were at an end. The CD was not only used for music however. This invention changed the world of technology. Every industry from video games to movies were able to take advantage of the technological shift.
Once the CD came out, most other devices became unimportant. It was tangible and held so much more data than just any other music medium. DVDs were used for so much!
Anonymous
I agree with Serena. After the CD began to be produced, it took the place as the other technological instruments that were used to play music with. The CD’s were better and more efficient in every way. They could hold more data and were also more cost efficient. https://musicintervaltheory.academy/the-impact-of-the-cd-on-the-music-business/
Arianna Duke
CDs were very popular among many generations, including mine. This popularity died off in the 2000s, but still holds a fond place in many peoples memories. This article was very informative and taught me a lot about CDs.
The article below explains how the cd is evolving and not dying off https://www.fastcompany.com/40532455/the-cd-business-isnt-dying-its-just-evolving
alyssa bram
Compact Disc (CD) a molded plastic disc containing digital data that is scanned by a laser beam for the reproduction of recorded sound and other information. Since its commercial introduction in 1982, the audio CD has almost completely replaced the phonograph disc for high-fidelity recorded music. https://www.britannica.com/technology/compact-disc
It was around this period of history that big tech started to play a major role in the music industry. CDs truly shook that industry and generated boat loads of money. In fact there are artists that made so much money from the CD age that they would never need to make music again just because of how profitable CDs became within the industry. Big tech would eventually meet its match with the dawn of the internet and would again have to innovate in order to keep relevant and profitable during its time.
Compact disks are file sharing mediums that are able to store music, videos, and files. They are able to read and written by computers. This was a big deal because most computers at the time had a extremely low memory storage capacities. CD’s made it able to store large amounts of media between computers. By 2007 over 200 Billion CD’s have been sold worldwide. The compact disks we know today were founded by a joint deal between Sony and Phillips. This allowed compatible hardware to be created so it could be used across multiple platforms. By the early 2000’s CD sales trumped cassette tape sales which was unprecedent for a new music medium. There were different formats of discs created which include the Super Audio CD, CD-MIDI, CD-ROM, Video CD, Super Video CD, Photo CD, CD-i, CD-i Ready, Enhanced Music CD, and the VinylDisk. The Red Book audio standard does not contain any copy protection for the data on the disk. Attempts have been made to make it so people cannot rip or burn data off disk but it is very easy to get around. The disk changed how we listened to music by slimming down the portable cassette tape. It allowed many people to store music and data on disks that had a lot more storage and was still extremely portable.
Jose Ramos
CDs were very relevant for me growing up. My dad would burn movies and music onto CDs, I learned what kind music and who my favorite artists were through CD’s, and seeing the different artwork on the front was amusing. We learned to be delicate because 1 scratch could screw up your favorite song, or ruin the movie that was on that CD. This article observes wether CDs could make a comeback in the near future. https://mn2s.com/news/features/could-cds-make-comeback/
Brendy Cortez
The CD was the digtal version of the cassette tape although it was thinner and it could also be used to record your own stuff. The CD became the most popular form of storing music as well as watching movies and playing video games. However, its demise probably came from its fragility and high costs as streaming has become alot cheaper than buying a CD. https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
Sean X Guerra
CDs are now like cassette tapes. They’re barely used anymore because all movies and music are digital now. It’s crazy to think how fast time flies and how technology changes so fast. Like the cassette tapes, CDs and discs are gonna go down as a part of history. More about CDs: https://www.philips.com/a-w/research/technologies/cd/beginning.html
The CD was originally created to store music. However, it became so much more than that. Because of it’s large storage capabilities, the CD became one of the primary data storage devices at the time.
CDs was an incredible invention for the music industry. With it’s superior storage space the CD became the dominate source to to record music on. While initially it was invented to store sound the CD quickly branched out to store just about anything. While I rarely use CDs today my childhood was filled with CDs for music, movies, and video games.
In the 80’s, the CD’s became the new support for music thanks to technological improvments: thinner than cassettes, with more storage capacity than a vinyle.
In the 2000’s, CD’s fonctions where extended to storage any kind of data for a very cheap price , this is how DVD, BLU-RAY, CD-ROM have emerged.
CD’s were the thing when i was growing up. On paper vinyls would probably seem better because they scratch less easily compared to CD, however, efficiency is very important in the advances of technology. Storing was a very strong point for the CD’s when they were released. In Kanye West’s “Yeezus” He uses a CD for the cover. His CD copy in my opinion is one of the coolest aesthetically pleasing album covers ive ever seen
The Compact Disc or CD when introduced in 1982, became an effective data storage format and stayed relevant for a long time due to the cheap price and small easy to use size. One thing that surprises me about the space of music and formats is that companies will often team up to make these formats, The CD was co-developed by Philips and Sony and to me im surprised that this happens, i would have expected these companies to bicker over the greatest newest bestest format like in other industries(other tech industries) but in the music and format world they actually collaborate and work together..
Tyler Stevenson
The compact CD is still my favorite medium for music playback, but not just for the quality and feel of the CD. Albums on CD’s became really creative with how they present the CD, in the form of cover art. With bands like Nirvana, Metallica and Daft punk, album covers were extremely creative and became immediate collectibles. All of this, paired with the revolution that was portable CD players and quality sound, made CD’s evolutionary.
CD’s were a revolutionary invention and much better than an old floppy disc. CD’s could hold more information on them than a computers hard drive at the time of release. I always find it funny that an invention always finds other uses than what its was intentionally built for. The developers of the CD, Sony/Phillips, won a Grammy for their technical innovation. But like all good things, they must come to an end. Many retailers in the last couple of years have said that they would halt the sale of physical CD albums in their brick and mortar stores, marking the end of an era in music history.
Though it was initially intended to just play music, the CD became quite useful for storing data. The CD could hold multiple megabytes, which meant that individuals could store lots of music or other personal data onto it. Though the CD was gradually replaced over time, it was still a revolutionary and multifaceted disc for its time. It also helped inspire different versions of itself, while influencing the musical devices of today.
Below is a video explain the differences between CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqnlqGKjZM
The introduction of the CD in the 1980s replaced things like pre-recorded cassets, video game cartridges, and more. While it was originally intended to play only sound recordings, it was eventually adapted to play movies, etc. In the 2000s the CD was being replaced by other forms of digital storage in the music industry, but is still largely used for movies and video games. However, with things like Netflix and Steam, watching movies and playing video games has become more accessible being that consumers don’t have to leave the comfort of their home to accuire these things.
https://virtualwayfarer.com/music-cds-are-obsolete-heres-their-replacement/
this article is very long lol but stores lots of information about the benfites of having a cd, and what it carries on the physical object. Althought it has grown with different devices it can be used with or played on its value while being manufactured has influenced ideas of many creators. Now people are able to place CD’s on their game counsels wiithout any problems.
In the video i attached below you will see the difference from how CDs were used and produced versus now and the uses of now. CDs are greater than vinyls
https://www.laweekly.com/why-cds-may-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl/
The idea of CDs being better than vinyl’s makes me think of the value we hold in vinyl’s today, along with other vintage music recordings- such as the cassette tape. Artists revamp and sell vinyl’s and cassettes while CD sales are hard to come by, which beg the question- if/when CDs become a thing of the past, will they later start to become popular again?
Vinyl’s and cassettes bring very good sound quality, many can agree on that, but with CDs, I honestly feel like it’s just the feeling you get when you buy an artists CD that you like- knowing you get to support them even if it’s just a little.
When will CDs enter the much known stage of being forgotten, discovered and revamped by artists, and sold as “nice” items?
CD’s were originally introduced by Philips and Sony as another way to store music. They were later used to store data and were wildly popular, dominating the music-market for many years. Although for music their popularity and sales began to decline in the early 2000s, they can still be found all over industries. Here is an article further detailing their decline,
https://www.retromanufacturing.com/blogs/news/the-decline-of-the-compact-disc
It is incredible that the CD was almost, in a way, an upgraded vinyl disk. While vinyl disks needed to be pressed by a master copy or wax cylinders, at their best, needed to be molded and shaped a certain way to produce sound, the CD took a lot of this physical process out along with some of the risk of owning vinyl or wax cylinders. CDs were instead “engraved” with a laser allowing for much more dense information and the material the CDs were made of (while still susceptible to damage) was arguable more durable and longer lasting than vinyl and wax.
Here is an article showing the improvement CDs were when compared to Vinyl:
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/19/5626058/vinyls-great-but-its-not-better-than-cds
I think that most of us forget how important these inventions were that led to how we play music today and even simpler things such as where and how we store our data. The CD, when first released, cost around $1000 and although the price was very hefty this did not prevent the sales of the product skyrocketing. A clever move made by Philips and Sony was their collaboration. Together they made the disc and the CD player universal eliminating worries of having to purchase from the same store. This strategic move allowed for the CD to dominate the market! Lastly, what I liked most was the fact that people were constantly looking for a way to improve the CD and it led to CDs such as the CD-ROM (read-only memory) and ultimately, the storing of data on the disc.
Here is the link to my article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-end-of-owning-music-how-cds-and-downloads-died-628660/
This article speaks on the amazing innovations that came to create the CD. One could say that the CD was a smaller more compact version of the Vinyl. CD’s became the new trend that replaced the vinyl and cassettes. Even though CD’s are good for business due to their easy production, they do have flaws. The life of the CD is short, to and estimated 50 years of life. They are also extremely easy to scratch and tarnish the quality of the game, album, or memory.
Please check out my link that speaks more on the topic of the life of a CD
https://cdm.link/2017/02/a-generation-of-cds-is-already-rotting-and-dying/
I find it interesting to read about the history of the CD during the age in which it has had a steady decline and seen it fall into its predecessor, vinyl. If the current trend of people buying vinyls rather than CDs as they have for the past 30 years, we can see them becoming just as obsolete as the cassette and iPods. Even major shops and artists such as Austin’s Waterloo Records and Bruce Springsteen, respectively, have largely abandoned the format, as stated in the following article https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-end-of-owning-music-how-cds-and-downloads-died-628660/ All and all, I can’t say i’ll miss them too much myself but i’ll enjoy watching how this once music format giant will fare in the future.
I’m a big CD fan myself. I grew up with a large collection of them and I still carry some in my car. As much as I enjoy them, I never thought about how they were invented or the technology behind them. It’s fascinating how they became a widely used format not just for music, but for movies, computer programs and video games. I also consider CDs a fragile format, as they can easily fall victim to wear and tear. I will always appreciate them.
I think it’s fascinating that Philips and Sony were able to create a somewhat smaller, portable version of an extremely popular medium of music at the time, the vinyl. Even though the cost of production was high, they took the risk and created a medium that became very important to the music industry. The process was much easier than it was to make vinyls, and CDs quickly took over. Even though the original purpose was to hold music, they were able to make many different formats that could do other things, such as hold information and store programs. It’s kind of sad that after all that work, CDs rapidly faded out due to the rise of Internet and new digital formats that are able to store music and information.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/08/the-history-of-the-compact-disc/
I found it very interesting that CDs were intended for storage purposes, rather than just to play music or watching videos. I had always thought of CDs as a way to either listen to my favorite songs or watch movies. However, looking back, my family and I did indeed use CDs as a storage component. For instance, we would store many family videos and songs we really liked so we could always have them in our reach to either listen to or watch in the future. From reading this article, I became more interested in finding out more things about CDs. Here is a video from 1982 introducing the invention of the CD and all of the new and improved components that came with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8
It is interesting that the very first ways we listened to music played by mechanisms alone were digital. The piano roll and music box disc, both invented before the wax cylinder (an analog format) were digital, the information on their material being in either an “on” or “off” mode (in this case, leaving a hole in the material for “on” and the rest of the material acting as a constant “off”). This technique was very easy to implement with pressurized air running through the holes, different tracks activating different notes. However, allowing automatic physical systems to engrave information directly to a surface was much easier than planning out a piece on paper, so analog systems became most popular until computers became sophisticated enough to rewrite physical waves as binary information and manufacturing techniques had enough fidelity to produce high denisity of information on small surfaces. Thus, we returned to digital information techiques for producing music on the compact disc a century after it was first utilized.
An up-close view of cd’s and vinyl comparing analog recordings to digital:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCdsyCWmt8
When CD’s first released they were single sided which was good, but as they evolved to double sided they great in popularities. Being able to hold over 8 gigabytes was a major thing making cd’s able to hold double to amount. CD’s shaped the way for download by letting the public burn together their own playlists on CDs.
https://southtree.com/blogs/artifact/the-history-of-the-dvd
CD’s were a very important introduction into new forms of digital storage, eventually leading to the streaming of music online. CD’s allowed a more specific way to enjoy music the way it was preferred to a given audience. In a way, it was a more portable version of the vinyl and allowed for more storage which meant more media to enjoy for a longer period of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGs5aVGsJA
The CD was really a game changer in the music industry. I had no idea that there were so many types of CDs each with their own set purpose. While it is a great thing that the CD was invented, there’s also a downside: the impact it has on our environment. Due to the harmful materials it is made of such as poly-carbonate plastic, it causes environmental problems. Here is a link which talks about the environmental impact of Vinyls, CDs, etc.
http://theconversation.com/the-environmental-impact-of-music-digital-records-cds-analysed-108942
I think its really cool to see how the CD changed. It was first used for music only and then became the standard for data storage and putting other stuff on it. Its cool to see how CD’s are still in use today even though they are considered older tech now.
This is a link to more CD info.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
The CD was developed by Phillips and Sony releasing in 1982. The original CD was created to store and play only sound recordings but later adapted storage of data. During the past in 1982 a CD could store more data compared to a personal hard drive. The CD changed the music industry because it created a new way to listen to music it is more compact and smaller compared to vinyl.
The article below provides information of the development of CD and how they impacted the world.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
The invention of the compact disc revolutionized how technology not only played music, but also assisted in the potential for computers being able to store more space in their hard drives. They then took over music formats and were the new fab in listening to everyone’s favorite artists, and were still easily traceable for music sales. As the successor to vinyl, the CD was much more portable due to its size and didn’t need a conventional player. Although the CD eventually faded out of the music culture, it is still more prevalent today than its predecessors, and is still being used around the world where the digital footprint hasn’t touched.
For curious individuals, here’s how CD’s are made:
https://youtu.be/ut_40U0t9pU
I grew up in the age of the disc, and owned many of my own. I like having this as the article to write about because I am more familiar with it rather than the articles in the past. The disc was actually a really great invention because they were affordable and able to store a lot of information on them. People could buy albums, record their own albums on them, put demos on them, store information and so much more. I feel like the age of discs were brief, though. Although they are still used to this day for video games and official albums, now with technology we can just download everything on our devices with no need for physical copies (unless you’d prefer that). Here is more information on the disc/CD.
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question287.htm
Growing up, compact discs were the way to go if you wanted to get your hands on some music. My family was constantly buying and burning their own playlists onto the CD. However, I never realized how CDs could hold more than just music. The CD changed the music industry because not only was the CD very easy to use, but it was at a size in which you can take with you, especially if you had a CD player. As of 2019, the decline of CD sales is pretty noticeable because of the rise of streaming and the comeback of vinyl. I provided a graph that shows you the decline of CDs and it also talks about the reasons why it did.
https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/
Two things that genuinely surprised me, or made me think, was the prominence of Sony in developing new mediums of listening to music and storing data, and the fact that CD’s at one point in time had a greater storage capacity than a PC hard drive at the time. Sony, in my personal experience was solely a company that produced gaming systems, the PlayStation versions 2 through currently 5 (these are the systems that I have owned at one point in time, or currently), but to my dismay we have unearthed some facts that us newcomers were clueless too. Beginning in 1982 Sony produced the first compact disks, later on developing the Walkman, then of course the gaming systems and cameras and televisions, which truly peaked my interest. Also, compact disks are not only intended to listen to your favorite tunes, as we just witnessed, compacts also come in form of DVD disks and game disks, which in turn hold a lot of data, but to hold more data than a computer just seems asinine. Granted the year was 1982 and the world wide web ceased to exist and i’m pretty sure no one had any prominent business on computers back then, so I guess it makes sense…
Here is an article on the Godfathers of tech, Sony, and they have an offer you cannot refuse; its probably a discount or something, they didn’t tell me.
https://www.fastcompany.com/company/sony
The CD is essentially an evolution of vinyl with modern technology when you get into it. Replace ridges and grooves with microscopic pits, and a stylus with a laser and you have a CD. The benefit to a CD for audiophiles is storage. Vinyl has limits to the storage of data not only in physical size, but composition of data as well. For instance, deep bass lines on vinyl are impractical to encode on the disc itself, therefore the pre-amp has to compensate before any actual sound comes out of the speakers. With a CD, ALL of the data from the original studio recording can be stored and played back with no loss of sound quality and no messing around with a phono stage. That being said, most audiophiles still prefer vinyl even though a CD may technically be better for the same reasons people prefer mechanical watches or air-cooled Porsches. Something about wringing the highest quality experience out of analog or mechanical formats in any manner intrigues people.
Here’s an article discussing the appeal of analog:
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/2/15518900/digital-analog-rediscover-tactile-physical-experiences-vinyl-print
Seeing that CDs were originally made just for sound recordings, and later developed into so much more is quite amazing. We can now store data, watch movies, burn pictures, and much more. Reading about all the different types of CDs, and what they are designed for is awesome to know. I had no idea that there are so many different types. Unfortunately, growing up I listened to more stuff on MP3 rather than CD. I was born in 2000 so CDs started going down in popularity music wise.
here is more info on the different types of CDs:
https://www.bemuso.com/musicbiz/cdmediabasics.html
CD’s are a real interesting piece of technology to this day. The rise of CD was the initial start of a digital world. The idea of being able to store an abundance amount of media into a compact disc is astonishing at the time because everything else was so bulky. Discs were distributed everywhere and for different purposes but then the fall came. Just like CDs came in as a convenience statement, digital downloaded media and streaming started taking over because it’s more convenient than CDs. CDs will truly leave a mark in technology but it won’t be long til it completely disappears.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-end-of-owning-music-how-cds-and-downloads-died-628660/
The CD is probably one of my favorite inventions because of the amount of nostalgia it provides me with. I remember going to circuit city to pick up 808s and Heartbreak when it came out and buying something to hold and look at while listening to the music. The history of the CD is probably one of the more unique ones when it comes to how the collaboration between Phillips and Sony transformed the media industry. I think more corporations should put their talent and money into a room and have them just create whatever they want because ideas like the CD can be made
Heres a video about the different CD formats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GmqxkuUhqw
The story behind the CD is a very rare event considering that two rival companies came together to produce a product for the consumer. Historically, recording/music companies created products that would work with only their playing devices allowing them to double up on sales for themselves, however, in return making it more difficult and expensive for the consumer. By Phillips and Sony taking out their selfishness and creating a product that could be played across a variety of players it allowed for the great success of CD’s throughout the 90’s and into the early 2000’s.
More on the rise and fall of the CD:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
The CD,or compact Disc was a revolutionary item. It introduced an interesting way of listening to your music while on the go. Inspired bythe sony walkman, it helped create the portable CD player. Allowing teens and adults to listen to music while on the go. Though it was sad to see it slowly die as digital streaming became its competitor.
The creation of the compact disk was a major turning point within the music industry. It became an easier way to listen to music on the go other than having to go through the complications of utilizing a cassette tape. Being able to have multiple songs on one disk and not having to rewind to restart a song or being able to skip to other songs easily was important for buyers. I remember when I was younger getting different CDs whether they had music or movies on them and collecting them. Even though there are different ways to get music and movies, CDs are still a fact within the music industry.
If you would like to read more about the popularity of CDs take time to read the link below :
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/10/the-cd-is-dead-not-so-fast/
Initially created to store music only, the compact disc sparked a new generation of storage and sales not just for the music industry but the computer world as well. The upside to CDs, when compared to vinyl discs, is that it was smaller and could hold more data. However, the CD was known for its fragility and require more care. I remember always having a casing of multiple CDs that would always eventually scratch and ruin a CDs integrity. In terms of popularity I believe that the rise in vinyl sales versus the drop of CDs sales is solely because of the popularity of the more vintage medium. Vinyl may not scratch as easily but the size and less efficeny of the medium doesnt make sense to purchase when compared to a CD.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vinyl-cds-revenue-growth-riaa-880959/
The CD was an astonishing innovation. Its compact size and 16 bit digital storage value made it the start of the digital age of music. The progress in developing and producing this product demonstrated it was possible to use digital optical recording and playback to reproduce audio signals at a high quality. Many companies raced to reach this level of technology. Sony and Philips used this concept of digital optical recording to set the standard for the new age of recording.
Click on the link below to learn more:
https://www.philips.com/a-w/research/technologies/cd/beginning.html
James Russell patented the first manifestation of a compact disc although it had more than a few downfalls compared to the current day CD. In his patent for a scanning device, the disc remained stationary while a beam of light rotated. Other issues include scratches or finger prints causing the disc to be unreadable and having low information density causing the disc to only hold 1 minute of CD quality sound. Once Phillips and Sony took on the task of licensing and creating a better version all of these issues were fixed but the it still doesn’t seem like James Russell gets the credit he deserves. Despite Sony and Phillips far superior product, everything that they tweaked to make CD’s came directly from Russell with relatively minor changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_(inventor)
Growing up in the era of CDs, I was all too aware of the misfortune called ‘disc rot’. While I was not aware of the title, I knew all too well that any well played CD will eventually scratch and skip, thanks to the non durable materials that compose discs (aluminum, plastic, and lacquer). Compact Discs paved the way for digital mediums for music listening. Having only had analog with the cassette and the vinyl, CDs seemed to be borderline futuristic for its time. James Russell brought about compact discs, and forever changed the recorded music industry. From waiting for your favorite artist to release their new album, and running to the nearest store to buy their CD, to recording a mix of your favorite songs on a blank disc, CDs are on their way out of the music recoding scene, but will remain in our memories.
Rise and Fall of CDs:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
How CDs are Made:
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/cdplayers.html
CDs were great. They had superior sound quality over the other mediums of the time i.e. vinyl and cassette tapes. They could be used to create personal mixes and had Walkmans making them portable. Additionally because of the compact size they were easy to store and transport. CDs provided a more convenient way to listen to music, you no longer had to get up and flip it over, or fast forward to the next song. You could skip right to the song you wanted, or place the song/CD on repeat and listen to it over and over. What was interesting about the article was how long CDs were around before becoming mainstream.
https://www.audioaffair.co.uk/blog/vinyl-vs-cd-vs-streaming-a-history-of-music-sources/
Oddly enough, game consoles started using CD’s because of the amount of data it could hold. The invention of the CD led to inventions such as DVD’s(Which could hold even more data) and Blu-Rays. Eventually the popularity of these formats of music and other sorts of data led to Digital distribution of every one of those forms of entertainment.
Website:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
We know that cassettes were the most popular format before the compact discs came around. In the early 2000s, we saw cassettes go pretty much extinct as the popularity of CDs grew and their sales dramatically increased. The main section of this wiki page that caught my eye was the manufacturing. The wholesale cost of these CDs were .75 cents to a dollar, but they were selling the pre-recorded CDs at an average of $16.88 a pop. That profit is amazing but it is split between the record company, store, artist, manufacturer, and distributor, which the record company receiving a pretty big chunk, more than the actual artist.
If you’re interested in learning more about the compact disc, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STyHzG5Frg
The compact disk revolutionized recorded music making it easy for consumers to buy and use. The CD was capable of holding much more than traditional vinyl making it an upgrade in storage. However, there is debate on whether the quality of the recorded music is the same as vinyl. Since CD’s can only play 192kHz songs it seems to me that vinyl would have cleaner and more crisp sound. CD’s also do not degrade over time and can last forever as long as you do not scratch the bottom of it.
Here is an article comparing the differences between the two.
https://www.diffen.com/difference/CD_vs_Vinyl_Record#targetText=The%20standard%20CD%20format%20is,sensitive%20needle%20called%20a%20stylus.
After reading this article, I’ve learned about the multiple innovations that were used to help create the cd. Honestly you could argue that cd’s derived from and were smaller, more compact version vinyls. As time went on cd’s turned into the new thing that replaced cassettes and vinyl’s. Though cd’s are good to use in businesses simply because they’re easy to produce, there’s still flaws. Typically cd have short life spans. Approximately estimated to around 50 years of productivity. Also cd’s are pretty easy to scratch so it messes up the process of it working.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/cds-truth-cddvd-longevity-mold-rot/
After reading this article, Ive learned about multiple innovations that were used to help create the cd. Honestly you could argue that cd’s derived from and were smaller, more compact version vinyls. As time went on cd’s turned into the new thing that replaced cassettes and vinyls. Though cd’s are good to use in businesses simply because they’re easy to produce, there’s still flaws. Typically cd’s have short life spans. Approximately estimated to around 50 years of productivity. Also cd’s are pretty easy to scratch so it messes up the process of it working.
https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-reliable-are-cds-backup-medium
The CD was the start of a technological revolution. The CD hit its peak worldwide sales around 2004-2007 but then quickly got replaced by newer inovations like the MP3 player by 2014. Now, we have music apps like Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora to listen to straight from our phones, who knows whats next!
Seeing the evolution of how we playback our music from wax cylinders and vinyls to cassettes and then CD’s, it’s so cool to see how different each item was from the next. Although a CD does look just like a smaller version of a vinyl, it still took time for the official CD to be developed. Something I had also never realized was how much CD’s were really used for storing data and information rather than music. It made a medium not only for artists to put their music on but also a way for other fields such as scientists or engineers to store their date. Below is a cool article I found explaining why we should continue to buy CD’s.
https://www.papermag.com/10-reasons-you-should-still-buy-cds-1426972491.html
The compact disk or as we call “CD” was created in the time of 1982 by Phillips and Sony. This new form of hearing your favorite music was at the 780 nm wavelength and costed up to $1,000. In the link below, it is 1985 and is a news story on compact discs during the beginning of time where it was a step to new technology. The video goes into depth with how the CD’s are the future for are every day life and how it was an advantage from the vinyl that the people were use to at that time.
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The Invention of the compact disc (CD) was the turning point of recorded music. The sound quality of CD’s were superior to cassettes. CD’s made storing data easier, and overall a more efficient way to listen to music. I grew up listening to my favorite albums on CD’s, and even burning CD’s w my favorite songs on them so I personally loved them.
Here’s an article over why CD’s Are still popular:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2013/11/08/three-reasons-why-the-cd-is-still-important/#4003c45d4586
What I found interesting about this article is how listening to music has evolved. These inventions went from hearing music from a wax cylinder and all types of vinyls and cassettes to then compact discs. It is so crazy learning about how music has evolved over time. Something that stood out to me in this article was that CDs were used for storing data. I now understand why game consoles prefer releasing their games on compact discs. Here is an article that goes in defense of the CD.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/in-defense-of-the-cd-105049/
The CD definitely changed music and how it could be heard when it was first introduced in the early 1980’s. Even though the CD would eventually die out it made it easier for people to listen to music and it even sounded a little better. Personally, I feel the CD was best used to store data, the amount of information it could hold was a big step in terms of technology. The CD Is also used for video games too, although video gamers are starting to switch over to digital games the hard copies should stay around for a bit more time.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/optical-data-storage-cd-roms-discs-history.html
When thinking about the compact disc, it is worthy to notice just how much of an impact it was able to make. It was able to replace many types of both audio and video formats, making this one of the most practical ways to see or hear what you wanted. In addition to that, even in an age where everything can be accessed digitally, there are still those who prefer and/or use the compact discs for their appeal and quality. One of these reasons may be that Compact discs are know for their higher quality audio than MP3 files, who are limited to 320kps bit-rate. A common practice is to rip CD’s into FLAC files to preserve the quality from the CD digitally.
Below is the process to rip a CD into a FLAC file:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-rip-your-music-cds-to-flac/
This article informed me of multiple things, including the fact that the compact disc was never intended to be a data storage destination. It is very intriguing the fact that there was more than one size to cds, in fact there was 3. I finally understand why the back part of compact discs are color full and reflective as well as it has 5 layers from where the laser beam reads information. Though that tech is very helpful for the time, it sucks that it is very difficult to recycle and its life span is very short. In addition to that there is many more cons to cds, to learn more read this article to get informed !!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/verymuchso/16-reasons-why-cds-were-the-worst
The time restraint of 74 or 80 minutes on an audio CD is and essential factor in how it became the successor to both vinyl and tape. Albums recorded on Vinyl were typically limited to just over 40 minutes to maintain decent quality. Double albums like The Wall by Pink Floyd and The Beatles’ eponymous White Album, were products of this time limitation as two physical vinyl records completely packed with music as one singular album. The CD enabled double albums like these to be released on one singular disc, and it also enabled record companies to re-release two separate albums as a double album on one CD disc for sales purposes. More info about double albums can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_album
When compact discs were first created they changed how the public listened to music. While they changed how music was listened to they weren’t without faults, scratching for example. I can remember trying to use cds for games or music and it not working because they had been scratched, a family friend had a device that fixed the scratches or at least tried. In the article I’ve linked you can read more about the history of compact discs.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/%3famp
This invention clearly had a huge impact on the world, well at least the parts of the world that were lucky enough to have access to it. It changed the way music was listened to and how it was produced, CDs are still used today, maybe not as widely but there are still a huge number of people prefer CDs to digital music.
Here is more on how CDs impacted Society :
https://socialimpactofcds.weebly.com/the-social-impact-of-cds.html
The compact disc is the first form of digital sound. It changed how the world did media until the internet and streaming evolved. However CDs are still of great importance to today’s music industry. They offer a source of income to artists, music sounds better on CDs, and consumers just love to have those physical copies of albums. There’s nothing better than putting a CD in your car on a long road trip. CDs also allow for data storage. I remember looking through my household CD case and finding blank CDs that had been loaded with family music, pictures, and videos. CDs might not be as popular as they used to be but they still bring a lot to the table, for more information check this article out!
https://artglider.com/blog/why-cds-are-still-important
It is interesting to know that the CD’s first form of use was for storing only sound recordings and personal data. It was not until the early 2000s that the CD’s digital use was popular for holding music. Also I found it interesting that the first form of CD, invented by James T. Russel, was displayed on transparent foil which was lit behind a high-power halogen lamp. Read more about his invention and the history of the CD in the link provided below.
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history-of-the-compact-disc
The invention of the CD was a big technological advance in the music industry as it was the first form of digital sound. It’s interesting that the CD has stayed around much longer in the music industry versus other forms like cassette tapes or vinyls. This probably has to do with the fact that the CD can be used for much more than music, such as, storing data, movies, videos, and various other things. Included is an article about the history of the use of CD’s.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
When the invention of the CD came about it was a huge impact for the music industry. It was cheaper and more efficient in its way and would record longer then what a cosseted tape would. The CD ultimately launch the boom of sony by knocking cosseted tapes out of the business. I found this article that goes more in debt of how the CD came about with years and many inventors that came about of it.
https://lowendmac.com/2014/history-of-the-compact-disc/
In today’s technology we see the CD being used for many reasons, to include audio CD’s, MIDI, CD-ROM, Video, photo, CD-I, enhanced music CD, and VinylDisc. With all of the different usages for CD’s, writable, re writable, and copy protection as well, we find the usage of the CD becoming more of an everyday thing. The thing, I guess I did not realize, it what is exactly out there and what they do. I know what I use them for or what I want them for but this reading, really gives the breakdown of what each CD does and how much it will hold and what it is best used for. It also gives what the estimated cost is for them and with the demand and technological developments, it is cost effective. Even though this is Wikipedia, still some great and useful information.
The Compact Disc was co-developed by Philips and Sony. It was originally used to only hold and play sound recordings but eventually they were able to use it as a storage device. It was ahead of its time because it was able to hold way more data then any other storage device created at the time. With the creation of the compact disc many other inventions came along afterwards. The inventions that were created are still used today for listening, recording, and making music today.
Here is a link to a timeline so you can have a better understanding of the creation of the compact disc:
https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-plan/tools-and-resources/history/timeline/
When technology improves, old technology is forgotten and replaced. CD’s replaced LaserDisc, CD’s were created from the idea of LaserDisc technology. The compact disc (CD’s) were invented in the 80’s by Sony and Phillips. CD’s replaced LaserDisc because they were smaller and cheaper and some would say better. While majority of the population were happy to switch to CD’s, not everybody wanted to make the switch. They’re all LaserDisc preservationist who enjoy the the nostalgic feeling they get for watching the older movies on their original format and feeling the physical copy of a LaserDisc rather than streaming movies online. We have improved technology and moved on to streaming movies and having a digital copy is enough for majority of us. They’re are still people who prefer a physical copy whether it’s a LaserDisc or a CD.
https://electricliterature.com/laserdiscs-are-dying-heres-why-that-matters/
The CD came out and replaced a lot of irrelevant technology for good reasons, we now have a way to make video games and DVDs of movies! I remember the old days of buying an album on CD so you could place it into a machine and have it play the one album. Due to technology changing again we are in an age of digitally downloading and streaming all these platforms which is replacing CD and DVD. Below is an article about the CD!
https://www.discwizards.com/articles/History-Of-The-CD.htm
When the CD was released it basically ended all other sources of technology, we use CDs everyday if you play video games, listen to music in the car and also watch movies. When i was in elementary i use to buy albums on CD even if i had a music app on my phone. Music sounded way different if it was played on the CD.That was back then though when the CD era was actually booming, now everything is digitally use on phones. We can watch movies on the phone and we can also listen to music on the phones or other devices.
The Compact Disc (CD) stores different data. There are different sizes with different capacities. It was first released to store audio and it turned into a way to store data. CDs would hold more data than the typical hard drive, but now the hard drive holds more data and is more popular. CDs evolved to holding audio files and movies. They slowly started to decline, but can be found in every store as it is still used in the music industry. I still remeber buying my first CD when I was around 10, and it is crazy to see us evolving to the streaming era.
Forgot to add a link. This article talks about the rise and fall of CDs.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
With the introduction of the CD, all other forms of music recording were proven irrelevant. Now this single disk could hold entire MB on the CD, which at the time, was a substantial amount of music. The days of finicky cassette tape were at an end. The CD was not only used for music however. This invention changed the world of technology. Every industry from video games to movies were able to take advantage of the technological shift.
Below, you’ll find an article further detailing the history of the CD.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
Once the CD came out, most other devices became unimportant. It was tangible and held so much more data than just any other music medium. DVDs were used for so much!
I agree with Serena. After the CD began to be produced, it took the place as the other technological instruments that were used to play music with. The CD’s were better and more efficient in every way. They could hold more data and were also more cost efficient.
https://musicintervaltheory.academy/the-impact-of-the-cd-on-the-music-business/
CDs were very popular among many generations, including mine. This popularity died off in the 2000s, but still holds a fond place in many peoples memories. This article was very informative and taught me a lot about CDs.
The article below explains how the cd is evolving and not dying off
https://www.fastcompany.com/40532455/the-cd-business-isnt-dying-its-just-evolving
Compact Disc (CD) a molded plastic disc containing digital data that is scanned by a laser beam for the reproduction of recorded sound and other information. Since its commercial introduction in 1982, the audio CD has almost completely replaced the phonograph disc for high-fidelity recorded music. https://www.britannica.com/technology/compact-disc
It was around this period of history that big tech started to play a major role in the music industry. CDs truly shook that industry and generated boat loads of money. In fact there are artists that made so much money from the CD age that they would never need to make music again just because of how profitable CDs became within the industry. Big tech would eventually meet its match with the dawn of the internet and would again have to innovate in order to keep relevant and profitable during its time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG5oGB1VL8k
Compact disks are file sharing mediums that are able to store music, videos, and files. They are able to read and written by computers. This was a big deal because most computers at the time had a extremely low memory storage capacities. CD’s made it able to store large amounts of media between computers. By 2007 over 200 Billion CD’s have been sold worldwide. The compact disks we know today were founded by a joint deal between Sony and Phillips. This allowed compatible hardware to be created so it could be used across multiple platforms. By the early 2000’s CD sales trumped cassette tape sales which was unprecedent for a new music medium. There were different formats of discs created which include the Super Audio CD, CD-MIDI, CD-ROM, Video CD, Super Video CD, Photo CD, CD-i, CD-i Ready, Enhanced Music CD, and the VinylDisk. The Red Book audio standard does not contain any copy protection for the data on the disk. Attempts have been made to make it so people cannot rip or burn data off disk but it is very easy to get around. The disk changed how we listened to music by slimming down the portable cassette tape. It allowed many people to store music and data on disks that had a lot more storage and was still extremely portable.
CDs were very relevant for me growing up. My dad would burn movies and music onto CDs, I learned what kind music and who my favorite artists were through CD’s, and seeing the different artwork on the front was amusing. We learned to be delicate because 1 scratch could screw up your favorite song, or ruin the movie that was on that CD. This article observes wether CDs could make a comeback in the near future.
https://mn2s.com/news/features/could-cds-make-comeback/
The CD was the digtal version of the cassette tape although it was thinner and it could also be used to record your own stuff. The CD became the most popular form of storing music as well as watching movies and playing video games. However, its demise probably came from its fragility and high costs as streaming has become alot cheaper than buying a CD.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/
CDs are now like cassette tapes. They’re barely used anymore because all movies and music are digital now. It’s crazy to think how fast time flies and how technology changes so fast. Like the cassette tapes, CDs and discs are gonna go down as a part of history. More about CDs:
https://www.philips.com/a-w/research/technologies/cd/beginning.html
The CD was originally created to store music. However, it became so much more than that. Because of it’s large storage capabilities, the CD became one of the primary data storage devices at the time.
https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/compact-disc
CDs was an incredible invention for the music industry. With it’s superior storage space the CD became the dominate source to to record music on. While initially it was invented to store sound the CD quickly branched out to store just about anything. While I rarely use CDs today my childhood was filled with CDs for music, movies, and video games.
Here’s another article about the devlopment and introduction of the CD.
https://lowendmac.com/2014/history-of-the-compact-disc/
In the 80’s, the CD’s became the new support for music thanks to technological improvments: thinner than cassettes, with more storage capacity than a vinyle.
In the 2000’s, CD’s fonctions where extended to storage any kind of data for a very cheap price , this is how DVD, BLU-RAY, CD-ROM have emerged.
https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/%3famp
CD’s were the thing when i was growing up. On paper vinyls would probably seem better because they scratch less easily compared to CD, however, efficiency is very important in the advances of technology. Storing was a very strong point for the CD’s when they were released. In Kanye West’s “Yeezus” He uses a CD for the cover. His CD copy in my opinion is one of the coolest aesthetically pleasing album covers ive ever seen
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/1565575/kanye-west-reveals-yeezus-album-cover
The Compact Disc or CD when introduced in 1982, became an effective data storage format and stayed relevant for a long time due to the cheap price and small easy to use size. One thing that surprises me about the space of music and formats is that companies will often team up to make these formats, The CD was co-developed by Philips and Sony and to me im surprised that this happens, i would have expected these companies to bicker over the greatest newest bestest format like in other industries(other tech industries) but in the music and format world they actually collaborate and work together..
The compact CD is still my favorite medium for music playback, but not just for the quality and feel of the CD. Albums on CD’s became really creative with how they present the CD, in the form of cover art. With bands like Nirvana, Metallica and Daft punk, album covers were extremely creative and became immediate collectibles. All of this, paired with the revolution that was portable CD players and quality sound, made CD’s evolutionary.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40532455/the-cd-business-isnt-dying-its-just-evolving
CD’s were a revolutionary invention and much better than an old floppy disc. CD’s could hold more information on them than a computers hard drive at the time of release. I always find it funny that an invention always finds other uses than what its was intentionally built for. The developers of the CD, Sony/Phillips, won a Grammy for their technical innovation. But like all good things, they must come to an end. Many retailers in the last couple of years have said that they would halt the sale of physical CD albums in their brick and mortar stores, marking the end of an era in music history.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-the-cds-rise-and-fall/