About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...

Rebel Audio is launching an AI-powered podcasting platform after raising $3.8 million in funding and tapping producer Mark Burnett as its first adviser.

The Sonos app received a major makeover in 2024, with the company hailing it as "faster, easier, and better." While it introduced several excellent new features, Sonos received significant criticism ...

Open source collective reinvents web video players, with minimal adaptive bitrate player now 38kB gzipped vs. typical ...

Alongside the debut of its new speakers, Sonos has updated its Android app to finally revive support for the system’s built-in media player and lockscreen controls, as well as volume controls using ...

If VLC and Windows 11 had a baby, it would look like this.

Vinyl records are firmly back in rotation, but getting started does not have to mean spending a fortune or building a complicated hi-fi stack from day one. Whether you want a simple, all-in-one setup ...

Compose Media Player is a video player library designed for Compose Multiplatform, supporting multiple platforms including Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is the first fully functional ...

The Utah Mammoth sent four players, all of different nationalities, to the Olympics. That means it was impossible for everyone to come home with a medal — but two of the four isn’t too shabby. Mammoth ...

When I recently showed a cassette tape to my 11-year-old daughter, she looked genuinely baffled. ‘What is it?’ she asked. My first thought was that I’d failed as a parent, but then I realised there’s ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been almost two decades since vinyl’s comeback, and ...

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