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 FiiO Snowsky Echo Nano is a tiny $49.99 lossless music player with tactile controls, a premium metal build and surprisingly capable sound.

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 ...

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, ...

We already know that Amazon.com has run a music store for years. Heck, along with dozens of books, toys, gizmos, and other material goods, I've purchased CDs, streamed music samples, and galore. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your system needs an affordable compact disc solution (or if you want to hear your CDs in private), the Fosi Audio Merak ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keen to get into the digital music scene, Amazon may well have a digital music store and MP3 player by the middle of this year. Planning to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Napster, Real ...