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 ...

If your car CD player or media center can play and navigate MP3 CDs by folder, using iTunes you can burn your tracks in album-specific folders automatically. (MP3 CDs have the songs burned on them as ...

Debates rage over whether hi-res music is a gimmick. Three Guardian writers put four music formats – and their ears – to the test Why are we still listening to over-compressed music through ...

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 ...

Ran into something interesting tonight while shopping at Kmart. They now have portable walkman style CD players that will do up to 84 hours of continuous playtime (pretty darned impressive in my book) ...

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 ...

Amazon has launched AutoRip, a service that gives customers free MP3 versions of CDs they’ve purchased anytime since 1998. Even better, customers who purchase a new CD will receive their digital copy ...

Since I put together this new rig and installed Win7 on it, I've been using Windows Media Player to play backups of old mp3's and to rip CD's. In the past I've always used 3rd party software for ...

Time is money!