Sure, most of us satisfy our music-listening needs these days using our phones, tablets, and smart speakers, but that doesn't mean a dedicated MP3 player or portable music player is a completely ...

Sound is one of the many motivators of our day, whether it’s that song that powers you through an extra rep at the gym or that podcast you like to unwind to after a long day at work. As sound has ...

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"I don't like the title 'The Father of MP3,'" says Karlheinz Brandenburg. But he kinda is. "Certainly I was involved all the time from basic research [to] getting it into the market." Brandenburg was ...

One of the most renowned Big Tech companies in the world continued to deliver a device dedicated to streaming music, and that ...

These days, MP3 players have largely been pushed aside for cell phones, which can not only play music but also search the web, make phone calls and more. But most modern MP3 players are small and can ...

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Since its standardization in 1991, MP3 has gone from being a little-known portion of a video file format to the kind of ubiquity that most brands can only dream of having. It's both widespread, with ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

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There's a near-unlimited number of YouTube videos that you might want to have an offline MP3 copy of, like podcasts or instructional audio. Here's how to convert YouTube to MP3 with iTubeGo. YouTube ...

"The death of the MP3 was announced in a conference room in Erlangen, Germany, in the spring of 1995." But now, 22 years later, the MP3 truly is dead, according to the people who invented it. The ...