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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Professor Jonathan Sterne talks about his research on the history of the MP3, including how it was developed and ...

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The first time I heard an MP3 file was back in 1995. It was some proto-drum-and-bass track that I had downloaded to my PC from an FTP site, back when the web was just beginning to go mainstream. I don ...

Music may have kicked off the digital media revolution with the rise of the MP3, but in recent years audio has taken a major backseat to video and communications. The more devices we pile up, the more ...

A computer virus that targets MP3s has turned up online, according to computer industry experts. The worm – called W32. Deletemusic – goes through an infected user’s hard drive deleting all the MP3s ...

Unfortunately, the free ride is just about over. At the end of this year, Google will discontinue Google Play Music and push users over to YouTube Music as a replacement. But while YouTube Music now ...