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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FiiO M23 can be used with Bluetooth earphones or wired headphones with 3.5mm and 4.4mm jack plugs. Digital audio players are something of an outlier in this age of advanced smartphones ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...