Tagged “burning-cds”

Burning CDs and Using LimeWire: How We Downloaded Music in the Early 2000s

Before streaming, downloading music meant burning CDs from LimeWire and other file-sharing programs that followed Napster's shutdown — the messy, spyware-riddled way a generation got its music in the early 2000s.

Music & Audio

CD Players and the Discman: The Sound of the Future, One Skip at a Time

CDs promised perfect, eternal sound. They delivered something more complicated — and more beloved — than that.