These days it’s a given: Buying and listening to CDs is passé. Portable music means an iPod or other MP3 player. If most of what you like to listen to now isn't already stored on your computer, it ...

Tunes isn't the most accurate or most powerful CD ripper, but it's the best for most people with demanding digitizing needs.

The music industry has been rocked by technology since CNET's start in 1995 and so has how we discover, create, collect and listen to it. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been ...

If you’ve been buying CDs for more than thirty years, there is a good chance that your investment in both music and hardware (and media furniture) has not been a small one. Roon is also not an ...

Music technology is so advanced these days that you can listen to a rapper's music for years without ever having to buy a physical album. If there's an iPhone, Android or computer within reach, ...

Lots of readers are writing in with questions about iTunes 12 and its quirks. In this week’s column, I explain how to import single tracks from CDs, which is different in the latest version of iTunes.

My dad, who is in his 70s, needs to do something to replace his 3 failing 300 CD changers (almost completely full). He wants to keep his speakers, as he has since very nice ones for his living room, ...

Click to viewEveryone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It's not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This week I'll show you how to free ...

The shiny compact disc, once as essential to every living-room music system as a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, is quickly going the way of the eight-track and cassette tape. The rise of ...