Personal Audio

The Zune is a portable media player. It supports video playback, audio playback, photo viewing, and WiFi file transferring. The 120GB is ideal for those who want to store a lot of high quality...

Apple broke into the personal audio market with their famous iPod in 2001. In subsequent years, they released iPods that had bigger hard drives and thinner designs. These powerful devices can hold...

Windows Media Player (WMP) is capable of playing audio and video, displaying photos and syncing content to portable media players. The sync feature will work with most MP3 players (except iPod). A...

The Zune is a portable multimedia player. It comes in a range of colors (black, red, and blue) and storage sizes (ranging from 4 to 120GB). For audio, the Zune supports MP3, AAC, and WMA. For...

If have ample videos and movies on your iPod, you don't have confine them to the small iPod screen. If you are at home and would like to watch your iPod videos on your television, then you can...

Most new iPods can play videos downloaded from iTunes, ripped from a DVD or downloaded online elsewhere. IPods are great entertainment devices when your on the move but can be less than ideal if...

To make an audio CD that can play in your car stereo system or in your home stereo system you have to convert the MP3 files on your computer. You can use Windows Media Player to burn an AUDIO CD.

Similar to a CD, the MiniDisc (MD) is a disc-sourced digital medium for recording and storing digitized audio or data files. The gadgets were introduced as a digital upgrade for cassette tapes,...

MP4 is a video format more commonly used by mobile devices. It stands for "Moving Picture Expert Group-4." MP3 is the standard format for digital media. It stands for "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3." To...

This article describes several ways in which you can prolong your iPod battery life. Accordingly, Apple states an iPod battery should last about 400 charges with proper care. Just follow these...

Apple's iPod is the most popular personal music player on the market, and for good reason. Usability, style, infinite expandability and the revolutionary "clickwheel" are just a few reasons the...

White noise is the hissing static you hear in between radio station signals and when a television station goes out on an antenna-based TV. If you are recording audio in a room, you may want to add...

Transferring the contents of a mini tape recorder to a PC may be done for a number of reasons. You may want to post the audio from a business meeting on a company website or archive a professor's...

A "Palm" is a type of electronic device manufactured by the Palm corporation. Palm currently makes cell phones and personal data assistants (PDAs). Both Palm phones and PDAs are capable of playing...

U.S.-based audio equipment manufacturer Bose is known for its high quality audio products. Among the popular products from Bose are home theater systems, clock radios, and sound systems used in...

Sony calls the Xplod a "CD Radio Cassette-Corder." You may know it as a boombox. The Xplod is an aggressively styled device featuring a large 130mm power-drive woofer. The 20-watt device has an...

MP3 players are great portable devices, allowing you to bring tons of music choices with you wherever you go. At some point, though, you may acquire too many songs, or you may just tire of the...

MPEG-3 and MPEG-4 are two of the compression formats used for digital audio players. They are often referred to as MP3 and MP4.

Though digital voice recorders are becoming more prevalent, microcassette recorders have long been a common and cheaper method of recording voice audio. Unfortunately, storing and revisiting...

While MP3 players are continually expanding in size, it's common for every user to reach a point when his audio library exceeds his MP3 player's storage capacity. Though expansion via a card slot...

Shure SE530 and Ultimate Ears TripleFi are both high-end, sound isolating earphones. Both brands offer high range frequencies, audio filters and versatile compatibility. The TripleFi brand is a...

Philips manufactures several different models of portable speakers for MP3 players, laptops and other portable audio devices. Some speakers are universal and work through a standard 3.5 mm...

NexxTech is a well-known manufacturer of electronic audio equipment and accessories. Their digital MP3 players allow you to take your music with you on the go, and they have plenty of memory for...

The Zune audio player is designed for personal use and only displays what has been recorded on it on its portable screen. To watch what is on a Zune requires using an A/V cable, and it is possible...

Owners of iPod portable media players can download songs or full albums using the iTunes software. As with other audio software, you can also use iTunes to rip songs from audio CDs onto your...

Like the portable cassette player and portable CD player before it, an MP3 player allows you to take your music on the go. It also lets you to transfer digital audio files from your computer to...

The Walkman and the MP3 player are personal audio devices that have enjoyed similar levels of popularity within their respective time periods. Both became pop culture icons and remain household...

MP3 players were a game-changer when it came to being able to listen to music on-the-go. These portable audio devices were easy to use and relatively inexpensive when compared to previous devices...

The iPod is a portable music player that can be synchronized to a PC for music transfer. But because the iPod was created for the Macintosh initially, it does not play the audio standard WMV...

Podcasting is the delivery of audio content such as audio blogs, lectures, walking tours, and many other forms of audio recordings via RSS. Real Simple Syndication (RSS) refers to a group of web...

One of the disadvantages of using a stand-alone scanner radio is that you have to be within radio reception range of the transmitter. Well, what if you want to hear police, fire or other...

MP3 players are portable devices that play back digital audio files. Digital audio files come in a number of formats, but the most popular by far is the MP3. From the invention of the MP3 format...

A CD player or compact disc player is an electronic device that can read audio data on a CD. The player reads the data on the disc and decodes it into audio sounds that are then transmitted to the...

Ear headphones for personal listening devices are designed to suppress the noise of the outside world so music lovers can relax and enjoy their tunes. But sometimes the ear headphones themselves...

Koss Sparkplug Headphones are made with silicone earpieces that compress for insertion in the ear canal to expand for nose suppression. The Sparkplug's L-shaped design strengthens the wires...

The iPod supports Mpeg4 file types such as M4A and MP4 for audio, and M4V for video. Music purchased from the iTunes Store is in the M4A format. To convert an iPod M4A (audio) file to an Mpeg...

Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, people have been able to own devices that allows them to be mobile and listen to audio, particularly music. Since then, the sophistication and...

As more and more digital audio and video players are introduced to the market, there is a growing demand for files to be available in multiple formats to be compatible with a number of different...

Technology has constantly revolutionized how we live our lives, including how we store our information. Developers have also found ways to store audio information digitally through digital voice...

Disney Mix Max is a line of personal audio players created by Disney to be used by children and pre-teens. The colorful players are a follow-up to Disney's Mix Stick, an MP3 player that was simply...

Apple Computer's market-leading iPod digital music players come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some have color screens and multiple controls while others have no displays and few controls. All...

Want to make a nice custom ringtone for free for your phone? You can by following these steps.

iTalk is a device that can be used along with your iPod to make high-quality audio recordings. You can use the iTalk device to record a range of things, such as lectures, audio books or simple...

The Griffin iTrip is a small accessory for an Apple iPod, but produces big sound. When plugged into the audio output socket of any iPod (except the Shuffle)--usually where the headphones are...

Audio files can be stored in a wide variety of formats, depending on the software company and media player that originated it and the use it was intended for. MP3 is a basic format and is one of...

The boom box was born when stereo capabilities were added to radio cassette players. The boom box was introduced in the late 1970s. Boom boxes were also called ghetto blasters, jam boxes and radio...

Audio books let you catch up on your reading when you're on the go, but few people carry around personal CD players. You can convert the audio books you buy or borrow into MP3 files that will play...

Sony's Minidisc technology uses small, optical discs to record and play back music. Introduced in 1992, it gained a small but loyal following and remains a common audio technology in use today....

Many people find dirt, lint, fuzz and grime collecting inside the headphone jack of their portable audio device. No matter what kind of music player you use, if it has a headphone jack, chances...

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is an audio and video format that places audio and video in a container format, allowing a synchronous playback. It is the most common format for audio and video on a...