Neil Young is right: Those songs on your iPhone do sound like crap, and it's time we demand better-sounding alternatives for our digital music. Here we explain exactly what's wrong with the MP3, and provide options for much higher-quality digital music formats.

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Sony's Android-based Walkman Z portable media player (Credit: Josh Miller) One of the quickest ways to make me nostalgic is to talk about the pre-iPhone days–the days when MP3 players still mattered. While today's biggest forum battles all seem to revolve around Android versus iOS, there was a time when the mere mention of iPod earbuds would send us all into frothy fits of anger. Everyone, it …

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