Music

The Apple iPod Classic, the Sony NWZ and the Cowon iAudio X7 are three of the best MP3 players on the market.

The iPod Touch, the Samsung Galaxy Player and the Creative Zen Touch are the best 8GB MP3 players on the market today.

Looking for somewhere to store your music? Why not check out the latest 32GB MP3 players from Apple, Archos and Sony

Spotify, the hugely popular desktop music streaming service, has announced the launch of a browser-based music player.

Gone are the days of riffling through LP collections, tapes and even CD stacks to play your songs at home. Tech enthusiasts today are all about changing tunes from anywhere in the house.

Festival season is well underway and T in the Park, which kicks off today, is the latest event expected to be soaked in rain this summer. This hasn’t dampened the festival spirit as over 80,000 intrepid campers have descended on Kinross-shire to watch headliners Snow Patrol, The Stone Roses and Kasabian rock the stage. It would seem that we’re a nation of well-prepared festival go-ers, or at least we’ve resigned ourselves to a rain-filled summer. Searches on PriceRunner for Hunter wellington boots, the welly of choice for festival pros like Kate Moss and Lily Cole, shot up 97% leading up to the Scottish festival.

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations are fast approaching. No matter how you feel about Her Majesty, or the Royal family in general, I don’t think anyone’s grumbling about the extra day off.

Why is everyone enslaved by Apple's iPod? Through its combination of stylish design and smart marketing, it seems to have convinced the vast majority of people that it's the only MP3 player worth considering. I've never been convinced – mainly because I don't want to be tied into the way Apple's iTunes music market does things.

With the rise of MP3 players such as the iPod, it can’t be long before CDs will go the same way as vinyl, the original Walkman and MiniDisc players.

“I took a record of pretty music / now I’m putting it to you”. Iggy Pop hasn’t changed much since 1970, when he released ‘Fun House’ with the Stooges and ‘Loose’, the song I just quoted from.