Stereogum recently published a fascinating retrospective on Neil Young's doomed hi-def portable music device, the PONO.

If you want to enjoy Hi-Res audio on the go, then this new music player from Shanling may be one to check out.

Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007-2012 time frame, a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music.

Testing the best MP3 players is no trivial matter ... to jump on your home Wi-Fi to access both your locally downloaded music and your music streaming subscriptions. So, yes, they do far more ...

【Compact and Portable】This MP3 player is lightweight and portable, so you can easily put it into your pocket and backpack to enjoy music anytime, anywhere. And it is the ideal exercise ...

Best Buys If you miss the iPod Touch or want to up your portable music player game, we've got plenty of iPod alternatives on this list... The Activo P1 portable music player aims to deliver Astell & ...

There was a brief time in the early 2000s when we carried cellphones, wallets, keys, and a bespoke digital media player loaded with a small selection of our music libraries. Devices like iPods ...

At this point, there are really only two major players in the high-end portable music space: Astell & Kern and Sony (where the Walkman brand still lives on). We've used earlier versions of each ...

[Bram] wasn’t satisfied with the portable music playback devices that were currently available. He craved an offline music player that had a large storage capacity but found that this was only ...