Think about how you listened to music ten years ago. Maybe you owned a CD collection, or perhaps you were already streaming ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

In 1982, when the BBC’s prime-time technology show – Tomorrow’s World – did a segment on a new musical format called the “Compact Disc” the presenter skeptically asked "Whether there's a market for ...

In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee ...

In the world of specialty audio-video publishing, there is likely no more vocal critic of the so-called resurgence of vinyl than me. By no means do I deny anybody any joy that they get from listening ...

Welcome to the RTÉ Archives Acetate Disc Collection. The presentation of these recordings is a work in progress you are welcome to explore and listen here to the content as it is being added to and ...