Streaming services have become firmly cemented as the main source of revenue for the US music industry. The RIAA reports that 2018 saw a record
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What’s the future of compact discs?
Since their debut in 1982 (though they first went on sale in the United States in 1983), compact discs became the dominant format for music
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Is the MP3 really dead? (The answer’s “no.”)
Recently, the popular MP3 audio format was declared “dead.” Or so claims the Fraunhofer Institute, the researchers who helped spearhead the development of the format,
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Apple’s 2010 iPod announcements, plus my thoughts
Today was Apple’s annual new iPod announcements. While I’ll have to see the new iPods in person at the Apple Store to fully gauge what
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