Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the summer of 1995, vinyl records were almost obsolete. People listened to music on the radio, cassettes or CDs. Then along ...

The online world will get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format Thursday, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy. Thomson ...

After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted ...

When German audio engineers developed the MP3 format in the early 1990s, they unwittingly created the currency of online music piracy -- song files that could be copied freely and downloaded swiftly.

The online world will get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format Thursday, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy. Thomson ...

The creators of the MP3, the revolutionary music file that sent shock waves through the industry by making songs more easily played and shared on personal computers, are working on a new format called ...

Some of the pioneers behind the MP3 format have introduced a new music file type that can include things like lyrics, videos, artwork, and blog posts. Called MusicDNA, the format was developed by ...

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 ...