News article reports that Napster clones, such as Morpheus and Newtella, occupy six of the top ten most-downloaded programs on CNet.

Prepare for Christmas shopping by exploring Richard Menta's reviews of the best and worst portable MP3 players on the market.

Colin Stone declares MusicCity's file sharing software to be far superior to Napster, Gnutella, and other MP3 search networks.

Find out what Colin Stoner thought of Rio's updated portable MP3 player in this product review.

Anyone eager to get their hands on the next generation of this popular media player can get a sneak peek at its features.

Learn about the pros and cons of the numerous file-sharing applications and sites seeking to avoid the same legal fate as Napster.

Pia Landergren reports on Sony's Walkman for the twenty-first century, a portable CD player capable of recording onto CD-RW discs.

Melissa Perenson reports that the summer of 2001 may see prices triple on blank CD-R and CD-RW discs and looks for the reasons behind the hike.

Read about the latest headache for the music industry, in which bootleggers use an assistive listening device to create crystal-clear recordings.

Benny Evangelista reports that the recording industry, not content with shutting down file-sharing networks, is now going after recordable CDs.

Benny Evangelista, in the midst of a court-ordered Napster shutdown, appraises such contenders to the throne as Morpheus, Gnucleaus, BearShare, LimeWire, and Pressplay.

Read an in-depth interview with Neil Young discussing his feelings about MP3, CD audio and the many advantages of the new DVD-Audio format.

Jesse Berst takes a quick tour of the peer-to-peer music download applications most likely to succeed a withering Napster.

Read about Microsoft and others' attempts to subtly wean consumers off of MP3 in favor of more easily tracked formats.

Learn about various digital music formats, compression and sampling rates, and then listen to and compare music samples.