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

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

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 ...

Digital audio device is one of my favourite products of 2024 - for a multitude of reasons all music fans will relate to ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...