Speaking of sorcery, there used to be a certain magic in unpacking a new CD that you had just bought from your hard-earned money. That is unlike today’s digital music, which is no longer bound to physical laws and instead beamed to our phones in what mere mortals can only describe as mid-level sorcery. The advent of the CD also marks the beginning of the digital music era, even if the bits and bytes of the CD era were still constrained to a physical medium. However, the capacity was eventually extended to 74 minutes and a diameter of 120 mm to accommodate a full performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Jointly developed by Philips and Sony, the CD was originally designed to hold 60 minutes of audio with a disc diameter of 115mm. 40 years ago, on August 17, 1982, the world’s first compact disc, a copy of ABBA’s “The Visitors” was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, marking the beginning of a new era for the music industry.
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