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Even though the century old-LP was expected to be replaced by compact discs, digital downloads and streaming music, spending on vinyl records has increased each of the last 18 years, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025
Because the compact disc used a very different production process, Sony suddenly found itself with a surplus of equipment for manufacturing magnetic recording tape and of technicians to run these machines.
—Ashok Lahiri, IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017
For the first 100 years, from that Paris Opera telephone experiment to the release of the compact disc in the early 1980s, recording was an uneven but inexorable march toward higher quality—as both a selling point and an artistic aim.
—Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
The songs were released on compact disc and cassette tape in 1994, several months after singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain died by suicide.
—Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2025
Because the compact disc used a very different production process, Sony suddenly found itself with a surplus of equipment for manufacturing magnetic recording tape and of technicians to run these machines.
—Ashok Lahiri, IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017
For the first 100 years, from that Paris Opera telephone experiment to the release of the compact disc in the early 1980s, recording was an uneven but inexorable march toward higher quality—as both a selling point and an artistic aim.
—Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
The songs were released on compact disc and cassette tape in 1994, several months after singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain died by suicide.
—Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Compact disc.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compact%20disc. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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