The cassette tape was once the king of portable music, shaping how people listened to albums in the ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s. Long before CDs or streaming, cassettes offered affordability, ...

I grew up on the pop icon's songs and ballads. But her later and braver lyrics about trauma resonated with me the most.

As we’ve already established, this thing takes your run-of-the-mill music stream (I named Spotify, but it could be any ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. For a supposedly obsolete ...

When Jody Weintraub turned the key in the ignition of the family car on his way to the prom on May 6, 1988, he was surprised to hear his father's voice. Rather than give his son a lecture about taking ...

When Philip Weintraub recorded a message for his son Jody to listen to on prom night, he could never have known that 37 years later, the Internet was listening in But his daughter Ami tells PEOPLE ...

I’ve written at length before about my love of vinyl records and how pleased I am that, in a largely digital world, they are making something of a ‘comeback’. I’ve also talked about how CDs replaced ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...