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 ...

In an age of streaming media it’s easy to forget the audio CD, but they still remain as a physical format from the days when the “Play” button was not yet the “Pay” button. A CD player may no longer ...

I can't tell from what you've put here whether you've only got the one CDR drive - your Philips CDRW, if that is the case, see if you can beg, borrow or steal a "vanilla" CDR (i.e. just a normal CD ...

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

Looking to buy a top-performing CD player but not sure where to start? We’ve tested budget and premium players to find the ...

In the era of digital streaming, the market is full of wireless speakers that will play content from your smartphone or pull it down from the Internet directly over WiFi. But if you’re feeling a bit ...

I have numerous books on tape (really on CDs) that I listen to on my driving trips. Some are 11 and 12 discs long. I would like to put these on a USB drive, as my 2015 Honda Pilot has a USB port.

The fabled SNES-CD peripheral may have never actually made it to market in the mid-’90s as planned. But that hasn’t stopped homebrew developers from utilizing the magic of emulation to make software ...

When we got our hands on the legendary "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype last November, the device worked fine as a Sony-branded SNES console sans audio, whereas its CD drive -- the part that ...