Ever since Sony introduced me to portable music with its iconic Walkman series, my enormous collection of tunes has never been far from reach. I've been through tape cassette players, mini-Disc and CD ...

The best streaming services are great ways of getting great-sounding music on the go, but there are a couple of drawbacks. They're limited by their wireless connections, use enormous amounts of data, ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Dec. 14, 2004 - Digital Mind Corporation (DMC), the California based technology company that recently released the world's first 100GB portable audio player, today announced the ...

What was going on in your musical or professional life that made you want to create Pono. Just satisfaction with what my product was sounding like by the time it got to consumers. MP3s have been the ...

Slow file transfers; mediocre battery life; doesn't support protected audio files or to-go services such as Napster or Rhapsody. Bottom line: As a basic, inexpensive digital music player for the gym, ...

Ninm Lab is obsessed with retro gadgets, from cameras to cassette decks, and its latest project — the Playdisc — reimagines the humble MP3 player as a digital version of the mixtape (or mixed tape for ...

The JVC XA-F107 (and F57) series offers a superbasic intro to portable digital audio with its slim feature set, compactness, choice of colors, and decent sound quality. The JVC XA-F series has no ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. For many people, the transition from buying digital music ...

Two Gigabytes of Memory for 555 Hours of Audio Recording, High-Fidelity Music and USB Direct Connect to Computer for Fast & Easy Downloads Olympus today announces the new WS-331M, the ultimate hybrid ...

One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as possible, whether it’s a Walkman with a radio tuner or a new class of devices ...

Sony’s Walkman portable audio cassette player in 1979 improved on the transistor radio by allowing people to take their preferred music wherever they went (engineer Nobutoshi Kihara supposedly ...

I got my first taste of the digital counterculture in college. The iPod — only a few years old at that point — was a far cry from today’s iPhone, but a sign of inexplicable style and wealth. I had ...