Music player

It’s Time to Give MP3 Players a Second Chance

Spotify ain't what it used to be, and we may have the perfect antidote.

Neil Young Unveils His New Pono Music Player

Neil Young has been banging on for some time about his dreams for hi-res digital music. Now, appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman, he’s unveiled his new music player: Pono. https://gizmodo.com/neil-young-piracy-is-the-new-radio-5881167 Rolling Stone reports that Pono is in fact a music ecosystem: a music download store, a tool that converts digital audio files…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

AirCassette for iPhone: The 80’s Weren’t So Bad

I’m old enough to remember using cassette tapes but also young enough to know it was already ancient technology. But still, there’s something about cassette tapes that interested me more than CDs or mp3s. A strip of freaking tape can hold music? And now that they’re pretty much dead, it’s sad. Thats why AirCassette is…

Tech News Casey Chan

Android Music Player to Ditch the Featureless Gray List Design Ethic

The default Android music player is a dark and dreary piece of software, that’s routinely shamed by the custom media options supplied with HTC’s Sense skin and even the likes of Motoblur. But it’s about to get better. This video of a leaked build of a future Android music player shows little in the way…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

The Hifiman HM-801 Music Player Will Satisfy The Pickiest Audiophiles

The Hifiman HM-801 looks like an old portable cassette player, but apparently it might just beat out most music players in sound quality. At least that’s what CNET though when they had a listen. They even found it worth $790. https://gizmodo.com/a-pmp-this-ugly-and-expensive-had-better-sound-amazing-5253234 The Hifiman was designed with audiophiles in mind, so it comes with features such…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Mu Space Music Player Transforms Into a Bed

Is this a lunchbox? A boombox? Actually, the Mu Space music player is a bed box. Its body carries a soft bed inside, doubling as an audio pillow thanks to its rotating speakers. This is how it works: You just have to open it, unfold the bed, turn the speakers inside, and get to sleep…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Samsung IceTouch: Hands On the See-Through OLED PMP

The Samsung IceTouch seems odd with its AMOLED touchscreen and rubbery-looking bottom half, but it’s fun to use and designed to keep your fingers from getting stiff while handling it. Ok, and the transparent display is just plain awesome. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-icetouch-pmp-has-a-transparent-amoled-screen-w-5439351 Basically, the IceTouch is a pretty standard PMP except it has a nifty AMOLED screen…

Gadgets Rosa Golijan

Portable Cross Fadin’ Cassette Will Make All Your Spontaneous DJ Dreams Come True

Once, while walking down the street, a man suddenly approached me screaming “QUICK! We need someone to DJ!” If only I had had this portable cross fader—who knows how differently my life would’ve turned out. The Urban DJ portable cross fader has been ultimate retro hipster designed into a cassette shape. It has three inputs…

Tech News Elaine Chow

MashiMaro MP3 Player’s Audio Cable Placement Becomes the Butt of a Joke

A company has “borrowed” famous Korean rabbit MashiMaro and turned it into an MP3 player. And true to the spirit of the cartoon, they placed the audio connector in a well analyzed place: The Msplayer has 2GB of flash memory and support for MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, ACT, WAV, and APE audio playback. When fully…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Sony Walkman X-Series Is Surfable, Touchable and Shuts Up the World Around You

Sony’s Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation. The X-series Walkman seems like a very impressive piece of hardware. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-sonys-new-walkman-to-feature-oled-touchscreen-an-5108531 Much like its direct competitor, the iPod Touch, it comes in 16GB and 32GB flavors and can be used to surf the web. The screen’s half an inch smaller, but it’s…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Sony W-Series Walkman Has Got No Strings, And No Display

Sony has gone all Pinocchio on us with its sportsy W-series Walkman MP3 player, eschewing cords for an all-in-one music player/earbud ensemble. $70 for 2GB of storage and 12 hours of playback time. Besides being wire-free, this wearable walkman features quick charging times—3 minutes for 90 minutes of playback, and half an hour for the…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Have a Cow With Creative’s Zen Moo Moo-sic Player

Holy cow! Just in time for the upcoming Year of the Ox, Creative has released its Zen Moo line of mp3 players and speakers in China. Based on the Zen Stone, you can get either the Zen Moo or the Zen Moo Plus. Both come with 2GB storage, support for MP3 and WMA, a 20…

Tech News Elaine Chow

TuneWiki Turns Mobile Internet Devices Into Zune-Wannabes

First, Intel decided to go with Linux for its MIDs, and now it’s giving the bird to Microsoft again by revealing a contender to the Zune’s social music aspect. TuneWiki, a “social media player” software based on Intel’s Atom processor integrates music and video with synchronized lyrics and a social network. Besides using a wiki-based…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Sirius Coming Out With New Satellite Radio Boombox

For those of you aspiring to be the next Satellite Radio Raheem, here’s a few newly leaked photos of the upcoming Sirius SUB-X2 Boombox. Much like the current SUB-X1, the new music player will sport a front-panel headphone jack, auxiliary input for other MP3 players, and a universal docking system. I wonder if that docking…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Microsoft MixView Is Prettier, More Useful Version of iTunes’ Genius

Not content with deploying their version of Apple’s Genius tech support lackeys, Microsoft is now biting on the iTunes Genius song feature as well and the initial previews make it look… really awesome, actually. Wired got a sneak preview of the Zune 3.0 software, to be released on Sept. 16, and found it much more…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Zune PR Head Says Babies Will Choose Zune

In a recent interview, Zune PR head Adam Sohn told the New York Times that “babies are born every day without an iPod. We will get there.” There being, presumably, more than the measly 2% market share the player holds now. But babies? Really? Microsoft, I think I’ve figured out your problem-you’re going after a…

Tech News Elaine Chow

TuneWiki Audio For Google Android Looks Very Impressive

This is TuneWiki, the music playback app that shows Karaoke-like lyrics and album art on almost all the music on your phone. It’s been officially ported to Android and looks very, very impressive. They’ve added features like searching YouTube for videos of your tracks, plus searching their database for certain song lyrics if you only…

Tech News Jason Chen

Creative’s Zen X-Fi to Enter Ring Dominated by iPod Touch, Zune

New details have been leaked about Creative’s answer to the iPod touch and Zune, a wireless music player with Wi-Fi media sharing capabilities called the Zen X-Fi. Pictures show the device sporting a chrome-and-black plastic look that’s vaguely reminiscent of the iPhone, along with a nine-point directional pad. Besides certain internet features, X-Fi will also…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Sony E020 Walkman Lets You Match Your MP3 Player With Your Clothes

Sony’s E020 Walkman, the flash-based MP3 player for kids who like to coordinate their gadgets with their outfits, will finally hit U.S. shores in mid-June. The E020 features a colored three-line LCD screen and a built-in USB jack with drag-and-drop MP3 transfer system (no SonicStage this time around, thankfully). Its selling point is its swappable…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Using a $115 Daisy open-source player, and a tin with a London tube map on it, Mchaceortiz made himself an MP3 player with a difference. The six way-retro switches on the tin control the volume, track selection and play and pause, and you can see another shot of it opened up after the jump. [MAKE…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Music player

It’s Time to Give MP3 Players a Second Chance

Neil Young Unveils His New Pono Music Player

AirCassette for iPhone: The 80’s Weren’t So Bad

Android Music Player to Ditch the Featureless Gray List Design Ethic

The Hifiman HM-801 Music Player Will Satisfy The Pickiest Audiophiles

Mu Space Music Player Transforms Into a Bed

Samsung IceTouch: Hands On the See-Through OLED PMP

Portable Cross Fadin’ Cassette Will Make All Your Spontaneous DJ Dreams Come True

MashiMaro MP3 Player’s Audio Cable Placement Becomes the Butt of a Joke

Sony Walkman X-Series Is Surfable, Touchable and Shuts Up the World Around You

Sony W-Series Walkman Has Got No Strings, And No Display

Have a Cow With Creative’s Zen Moo Moo-sic Player

TuneWiki Turns Mobile Internet Devices Into Zune-Wannabes

Sirius Coming Out With New Satellite Radio Boombox

Microsoft MixView Is Prettier, More Useful Version of iTunes’ Genius

Zune PR Head Says Babies Will Choose Zune

TuneWiki Audio For Google Android Looks Very Impressive

Creative’s Zen X-Fi to Enter Ring Dominated by iPod Touch, Zune

Sony E020 Walkman Lets You Match Your MP3 Player With Your Clothes

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...