A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

Fiio grabbed plenty of attention with its reboot of the classic portable cassette player earlier in 2024, so it’s no surprise to see that the company’s latest product is another blast from the past: ...

In the rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird Al Yankovic for our listening pleasure. [Lukas] ...

The digital connection between the CD drive and the sound card. Digital CD audio provides a digital connection to the USB bus for USB-based speakers and other digital audio destinations. THIS ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...

When the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard came out in 1980, there was a curious fact about it: It was 74 minutes long. Not 60 minutes. Or an even 70 minutes. Seventy-four. And it was all one deaf ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

Whether you grew up listening to MP3 files on an iPod or spinning 78 RPM vinyl records on an all-in-one jukebox, the way you’ve listened to your favorite music has almost certainly changed in your ...