A trio of computer-industry companies will launch their first portable 3-inch MP3-CD players, joining Philips in this nascent market segment. The products play low-cost recordable 3-inch CDs filled ...

Panasonic takes two popular product offerings and folds them into one. The new SL-MP50 takes the benefits of a portable CD player with long battery life and anti-skip play and combines it with the ...

Sure, iPods were cool, and totally changed the course of music history. But even before we were all shelling out hundreds of dollars to store our entire compressed music collections in our pockets, ...

Amazon launched a new service that will start offering a free MP3 album of any CD you buy from them. Better still, you'll get versions of any album you've purchased in the last 15 years. The service ...

Last fall, I had a post about a “pricing puzzle” in regards to the way Amazon prices its CDs and MP3 music. I asked the question, “Why do the MP3 versions of an album sometimes sell for a 50% discount ...

This week at CrunchGear, we’re looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys… those devices that still stand out in our ...

Update: Same artist, some MP3 music sells at a discount, some at a premium: Examples of MP3 versions selling at a discount: Examples of MP3 versions selling at a premium: From my experience buying ...

Are you still listening to CDs as they were ten years ago? You know, 72-some-odd minutes of music, just enough to fit Beethoven's 9th Symphony, yadda-yadda-yadda.... Then you're commiting a crime that ...

According to Rolling Stone magazine, sales of vinyl albums continue to grow, setting a new record in 2010. Does vinyl reproduce sound better, or is it just a trend? Two audio experts join guest host ...

For a while, I've had my music mostly ripped into ape, but I also have been compressing everything into mp3 and storing it so that I can quickly make an mp3 cd for use in my car. What I want is ...

Currently I convert mp3 files to an audio cd for use in my car by using Wimamp to convert to .wav and then compiling and burning with Nero.<P>Past threads on on this forum indicate that mp3 files can ...