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

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get ...

A resurgence of recent interest in CDs and CD players echoes an earlier wave of interest in vinyl records and turntables. The ...

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All audio apps tend to support the same general playback commands, such as "Play," "Pause," "Skip ahead/fast-forward [time ...

Lossless normalization is a good idea in theory, but it can result in songs sounding different than what the artist or ...

Which songs and genres defined the first quarter of the 21st century? In what ways have new technologies changed the way we ...

This year's best albums include Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," Lily Allen's "West End Girl," and Addison Rae's ...

Reports surfaced early Monday (Dec. 22) that a "pirate activist group" had scraped metadata from Spotify's music library and ...

All Spotify users can purchase audiobooks by using the Spotify Web Player. When you buy an audiobook on Spotify, you "unlock" ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The end of 2025 is near. And the season of unwrapping our online lives — or at least a glimpse of what they looked like over the past year — is well underway. Music streamers, social ...

The shadow library targeted metadata in what it calls a preservation effort and said it's considering allowing the ...