The Astell & Kern A&ultima SP4000 is the brand’s newest flagship digital audio player, and it is priced accordingly. If you measure the worth of a product by how relatively heavy and remarkably shiny ...

The concept of a portable digital audio player (DAP) goes back to 1979, the beginning of the bits- and-bytes era of music recording. At the time, all such devices—like most digitally recorded music of ...

Dec. 13 -- If you want to give the gift of music this holiday, and ring in the New Year with some rocking new gear, tiny MP3 players with a giant sound might be the way to go. Digital audio technology ...

The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the format became synonymous with the digital music revolution that started in the ...

View of the Apple iTunes Music Store, which launched in April 2003, two years after the release of iTunes in January 2001 Photo by Apple Computer / Getty Images Throughout the 20th century, the ...

Caleb, a 19-year-old from Iowa, was addicted to his smartphone. He scrolled TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat like so many others his age, but when his screen time reached 10 hours a day, he knew he had ...