MP3 Players News Archives

But for those less than tech-savvy, the Playaway has become a nifty tool to hear your top tomes.

The Cool-ER's usabiity isn't quite up to its good looks, but it delivers solid e-book features at a midrange price.

BITE THIS: Apple's iPod remains the largest selling player worldwide with over 220,000,000 sold.

A string of new patent applications have revealed potentially unique products from Apple, including a MP3 playing headset and a sensor that would detect when a shoe needs to be replaced.

An Apple patent design shows what would happen if its iPod Shuffle and Bluetooth headset mated.

Song Sift organizes the music library on your iPod touch or iPhone based on how many songs are present from each artist or album.

Your devices dona t like to wait in line any more than you do. Get a Sound & Charge Speaker Valet w/Onboard Charging and let them charge together.

Think e-readers are just a way of reading electronic versions of books? Then you are underestimating their potential.

If your MP3 player or car stereo system refuses to play songs in order, then there's a few simple techniques that you can try to get your device to behave.

Gadget reviews: ZuneHD, Lenovo S12 netbook and Umid's Mbook pocket PC. ZuneHD Video MP3 Player, $220 Microsoft's ZuneHD is an excellent alternative to Apple's iPod touch, but not if you like apps or dislike the Windows-only media sync software.

It's that time of year again; the time when Sony takes a look at their MP3 player line up, decide it's time for an update, and run a computer application that randomly adds and removes some features and then releases the result as a new player.

The M4B audiobooks from iTunes often protected by DRM. If you want to play them on mp3 players other than iPod, iPhone, such as PSP, Blackberry, Creative Zen etc, you have to remove DRM from iTunes M4B iTunes audiobook and convert the protected M4B audiobook to MP3.

An IPOD, for those of you who doesn't know what an IPOD is, is a personal MP3 playing device used for playing MP3s.

Apple's new iPod shuffle has come botton in a survey of mp3 players tested by a leading consumer watchdog.

Portable music players are almost a necessity, with people listening to music while on the go.

Are you in a mixed relationship ? Do you have Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux and perhaps a Mac ? Well you diserve to be able to have your music and listen to it too, with out switching from computer to computer or as hard as it is to suggest, buy a second MP3 or media player.

One of the more intriguing sides of watching other automotive journalists at work on manufacturers' test drive programs is hearing their bitter comments after getting into a new vehicle that doesn't have what seems to be universally called an "iPod hookup." Even if the vehicle is some megabuck supercar with every imaginable option and a powerplant ...

A few months ago, Dave reviewed the SanDisk Sansa Clip MP3 Player and gave it a thumbs up.

TECH Q AND A THE NEW YORK TIMES Q Do any portable MP3 players support music files in the FLAC format? A While popular players such as the Apple iPod and the Microsoft Zune HD do not naturally play files in the open-source FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, format, you can still find plenty of portable music players out there that do.

The movie is unforgivable, but the Dune audiobook was good enough to become a month-long obsession of mine.

Last year, Apple was sued in Arkansas by Luxpro Corp., a Taiwanese electronics company, for contract interference, attempted monopolization of the MP3 player market, unfair competition, and commercial disparagement.

Geeks.com sent us over for a whirl the highest capacity available iPod mp3 player , the 120 GB version of the iPod Classic .

Now that Apple has updated the iPod shuffle, giving it a new look , as well as more colors, what's one to do with the tiny tie-clasp-like older MP3 players? One option: swap out the music for a mini MP3 DV camera.

Think MP3 players have no business in the classroom? Think again, because these tiny portable media entertainment devices can do much more than play music, TV shows and movies.

Long gone are the days of the Walkman or even the Discman. The computer age has taken over all facets of our existence, including the music we listen to.

That's the claim of Jason Hughes anyway. In fact, Hughes, one of the co-owners of the locally owned and independently operated Sonic Boom Records , feels so strongly about his claim that he's willing to bet the farm on it.

Gadgetism.org > Charge4All Charging Travel Folio Charges Your Gadgets at Once ... [ TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities ] It has support for iPhones and iPods, MP3 players, Bluetooth headsets and other devices, PDA's, point and shoot digital cameras, GPS devices and a lot more.

If you are considering buying an electronic gift for a teen in your life this Christmas, this list is for you! Most teens are green with envy when they see their friends with the latest new electronic gadget or digital gizmo.

I've gotta hand it to SanDisk. The company doesn't shy away from honesty. Recently, a handful of Sansa Clip users reactivated a forum topic having to do with apparent pitch issues on the device whereby music plays back ever-so-slightly slower than normal.

Initial titles include: "The Federal Reserve," "Epidemics," "Parkour," "History of Whaling," "D-Day Invasion," "Seven Wonders," "Film Noir," "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Evolution." The iMinds catalog is expected to grow at an accelerated clip in the coming months, with hundreds of MindTracks available by the end of 2010, according to Olivia Woods, ...

Brussels - The European Union on Monday ordered MP3 and cellphone makers to turn down the volume on their must-have gagdets - or risk millions of teenagers going deaf.

The Cowon iAudio 9 is an overdue replacement for our favorite do-everything budget MP3 player, the iAudio 7. For years, the Korean brand Cowon has steadily churned out some of the best sounding, most format-friendly media players on the planet.

The first thing most new MP3 owners want to do is load their new MP3 player with sounds, music.

YOU can hear them on public transport, the beat thumping over the noise of the engine.

We need to retire the term "MP3 player." Not only do the newest media gadgets from Apple and Microsoft play more music formats than MP3 -- in addition to showing photos and videos -- they also fill some roles once reserved for high-end smartphones.

The European Union's critics often claim the 27-member bloc meddles in people's lives.