Spotify ain't what it used to be, and we may have the perfect antidote.

The MP3 player feels like a short-lived gadget, but its story stretches back decades before the iPod ever existed. Long before streaming, one inventor envisioned pocket-sized digital music, online ...

Back in the days before smartphones, it seemed like everyone had an MP3 player. The best-known device was the iPod, which ...

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Sound is one of the many motivators of our day, whether it’s that song that powers you through an extra rep at the gym or that podcast you like to unwind to after a long day at work. As sound has ...

These days, MP3 players have largely been pushed aside for cell phones, which can not only play music but also search the web, make phone calls and more. But most modern MP3 players are small and can ...

Adrian holds a BA in English Studies and an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory. He has been writing about technology for a few years now, working both in Poland and with ...

Since its standardization in 1991, MP3 has gone from being a little-known portion of a video file format to the kind of ubiquity that most brands can only dream of having. It's both widespread, with ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

With the advent of waterproof MP3 players, you can live your own movie-montage training session, getting in shape while listening to your favorite tunes.

There's a near-unlimited number of YouTube videos that you might want to have an offline MP3 copy of, like podcasts or instructional audio. Here's how to convert YouTube to MP3 with iTubeGo. YouTube ...

"I don't like the title 'The Father of MP3,'" says Karlheinz Brandenburg. But he kinda is. "Certainly I was involved all the time from basic research [to] getting it into the market." Brandenburg was ...