Celebrating 10 Years of MP3 Players

[hollabackitsobi]

lol @ all the iPod users satisfied with mediocre sound quality and 128 kbps AAC and MP3s from iTunes. 8GB Cowon D2 here with 2 16GB SDHC cards for 40GB of space. It also has support for OGG Vorbis and lossless FLAC. Woohoo!

 

[sonicstorm]

My first was a 128 MB BenQ

 

[Mewgia]

Seeing that you can replace the microdrive of the Zen Micro with a 32GB CF card, I might try doing that if I can pick one up for cheap. 32GB CF cards are going to be about $150 anywhere I look though, even eBay ):

if you sign up under the link in my sig you can help me though

 

[Bob Evil]

hmmm ... I've had 7 or 8 MP3 players, over the years ... I currently own, not including my phone, which not only has MP3 playback, but external media buttons, 2 ... a 32GB iPod Touch & a 1gb MP3 built into a NES controller, which I purchased from Harsky, on this very site, at the weekend.

 

[Harsky]

I can remember hearing about MP3s for the first time.

"So... you can listen to music how?"
"Wait, where does the CD go"
"Hold on, music from the PC, nah. I'll just use my CD player for now"

I didn't get a proper HDD MP3 player until I got an iriver which I broke because I used the wrong adapter with a higher rated voltage. Nowadays, I have to have video playback on my MP3 player.

Goddamn, imagine paying the same price for an itouch for an MP3 player with 128mb. You can't even FIND 128mb mp3 players anymore.

 

[Dylan]

lol I haven't used my ipod in ages thanks to the convenience of moonshell.

 

[OSW]

copule of poor quality 128mb mp3 players. all kept breaking (got replaced but broke again)

ipod shuffle. died (battery?). the hunk of shit incited my hate for apple.

DS.

my DS never dies, so i use it all the time (sound sucks but whatever i dont even got decent earphones to back up another player if i got one)

 

[TLSpartan]

MSI 256 MP3 player with SD Card slot - 50 bucks at the time which was cheap (sadly the headphone jack got lose

)
DS with 1GB card(Moonshell) - Hated it but better battery life then old MP3 player
Meizu M6 8GB - Love it, but it corrupted this morning before school and I have to put all my music back on

 

[BlueStar]

Can't even remember the brands of my first two. The had a 6 gig ipod mini which slowly died of crap battery, then just used my phone for about a year. Now I've got an 8GB Samsung P2 with some rebranded Sennheiser CX300s and a Linx B-tube bluetooth speaker.

 

[xalphax]

i use

archos gmini xs 202 with 20gb of space and some sony mdr-v700 as headphones.

the combo works really good, but the battery of the gmini doesnt last as long as it did when it was new, oh well.

 

[Veho]

I've had... one. And it sucked.

Still using MiniDisc...

it's like saying betamax is the next blu ray

...how?

No, really, how did you get to that claim from what he wrote in his post?

Seriously.

 

[arctic_flame]

I've have an iPod 4th Gen with a black and white screen since it came out... (replaced battery a year ago) and thats it.

Anyone who says iPods break easily can't be treating them right.

 

[xalphax]

MiniDisc is still used by audio professionals. nothing beats it for portable digital recording.

 

[NeSchn]

Pretty neat.

 

[arctic_flame]

MiniDisc is still used by audio professionals. nothing beats it for portable digital recording.

Uh, what? Surely the quality of the recording is the codec, not the format. I wouldn't use MP3 for portable recording, but I wouldn't use ATRAC either.

 

[Bob Evil]

but I wouldn't use ATRAC either.

Neither would Sony, anymore

 

[arctic_flame]

I see, minidiscs (Hi-MD) use PCM now, I'm behind on this. Still, it took them over 10 years of pushing ATRAC before conceding.