Exploring the history of portable music, from the first reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes to the colossal influence of modern ...

Younger consumers are being beguiled by physical media and buying into vinyl, cassettes and now CDs. FiiO has just launched ...

There was a brief time in the early 2000s when we carried cellphones, wallets, keys, and a bespoke digital media player loaded with a small selection of our music libraries. Devices like iPods ...

[Bram] wasn’t satisfied with the portable music playback devices that were currently available. He craved an offline music player that had a large storage capacity but found that this was only ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Portable music players may seem dated in a world dominated by multi-tasking and music-playing ...

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a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music. Media players may also serve as a portable photo album for images and videos (see digital music player). The term "media ...

What an ingenious idea the Shuffle was, particularly in its final, evolved form – a portable music player that was barely ...

The best MP3 players transform your music to superior high-resolution sound, thanks to built-in digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and the fact that, well, they're not your phone. These devices ...

While you can store and play all your tunes on the latest smartphones, they just can’t fill the gap of a dedicated portable music player. Yes, I’m talking about devices like the Sony Walkman or ...

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Starting in the 2000s, MP3 players caused a revolution in online music downloads and distribution (see MP3). All portable music players can read files encoded in MP3 and, quite often, other audio ...