MP3 and memory stick players copy music from computers, and from computers only. MiniDisc players, on the other hand, can record music from any source you can plug it into - computer, CD player, tape ...

From MP3 players to PCs on a stick, there are plenty of tech purchases consumers regret. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images We've all made them: tech decisions we later regret. Maybe it was the allure of ...

Step away from your favourite streaming service, push the cumbersome and costly vinyl revival to one side, and forget your feelings for the comeback of CDs (and cassette tapes?) for one moment, ...

CDR (Compact Disc Recordable) and CDRW (rewritable CDR) aren’t the only digital recording platforms out there. Sony has been doggedly promoting its MiniDisc (MD) for several years now, pegging it as ...

MP3 players store music digitally on computer chips, or on removable memory cards. Because there are no moving parts, the players are completely skip-proof, making them ideal for taking on jogs or ...

A coworker of mine got one of these and it blew me away. Why have I not heard about them until now? It's an MD player that holds 650Mb of MP3s. This is perfect, I think. It has 5x more capacity than a ...

Ok, when you uncompress an mp3, do you go back to its original digital format? No loss? And then burning that wav to cd, you have yourself a digital copy of the original? So then if I went from cd ...

Sony Corp. is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for ...