MP3 players are absolutely everywhere, and that’s despite the fact that it is illegal to rip a CD to MP3 in this country, even if you paid full retail price for the thing. Naturally, people tend to ignore that quirk of the law and many have got huge music libraries stashed away on 100GB+ hard [...]
Far from dying as a fashion fad, MP3 - the ‘renegade’ digital music format which makes solid-state music possible through heavy compression - goes from strength to strength. All kinds of new devices keep popping up, including those storing music on fixed or removable disks instead of memory cards.
Going back to moving disks might appear [...]
So what exactly is MP3? It’s been closely linked with the Internet although it’s not an exclusively Internet technology, and it seems that record companies talk about little else nowadays.
MP3 files are ordinary music tracks that have been digitised and stored on a computer. The beauty of MP3 is that it shrinks CD-quality music to [...]