Opinion

How much longer can it last? In America, as here, vinyl sales have been growing year on year for nearly two decades. But a 2022 slowdown in growth set some commentators suggesting that the vinyl boom could soon be over.

‘Browned off’ by the state of vintage books and magazines that have been digitally archived, Jim Lesurf is working on a software cure. If only it was that easy to ‘fix’ analogue tape and CDs

When you’ve got a million records, some of them might have to go. In January the BBC began a series of online auctions to dispose of unwanted vinyl from its fabled record library. In a tweet, Omega Auctions said it had spent a productive few days clearing out thousands of LPs from the BBC’s archive. You wonder whether this was just another job to them, or whether they thought they’d died and gone to heaven.

Wealth of content, value for money, easy playlist creation... You don’t need to be a member of Gen Alpha to appreciate the benefits of music streaming, says a fully signed-up Mark Craven