MP3 Player memories.

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Billy_Sama

Billy_Sama

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Does anyone miss the 2000s era of MP3 players? I watched some Dankpod videos of him showing off IPod and other MP3 players and while sometimes his commentary is a bit spastic I still get nostalgic for the MP3 player era. I am happy that I can put Mp3s on my phone along with streaming services but it doesn't have the magic era of the MP3 player. I still love my Ipod Classic that I had for years and changed the battery and harddrive to a SD card but still miss the days I used my lower end RCA and Sansa Player (I would have still used that Sanas Player if the wheel didn't break).


What your MP3 player memories?
 
XYZpdq said:
I had a Sony Discman that could read mp3 cd-rs
shit was so cash
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Those Sony Walkman and Discman have some value to them just because Sony nailed it for portable electronics. Portable CD players are still a bit nostalgic for me and one of many stuff you can't get new anymore with the same quality.
 
I remember getting a Philip's MP3 player for Christmas from my friend's dad years ago. Unfortunately it required a unique USB cord that I accidentally sucked up while vacuuming and couldn't find another one in the stores. Shit on Apple all you want at least you'd be able to locate another one of their USB cables in stores than my futile attempts with Phillip's. Apple's Ipods were okay. I still have my classic I used to have a ridiculous amount of music saved on it. Ultimately it started to die too quickly after a full charge, so now I use it for storage.

Growing up as a kid in the 90's I never appreciated CD players. Whenever I used one I find it faulty because they skipped regularly and it made more sense listing to music on a radio than a CD player because of skipping that I couldn't enjoy it. With MP3 and MP3 players it allowed me to listen to music portable without the annoying skipping.
 
Billy_Sama said:
Those Sony Walkman and Discman have some value to them just because Sony nailed it for portable electronics. Portable CD players are still a bit nostalgic for me and one of many stuff you can't get new anymore with the same quality.
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it was a pretty solid mp3 player, it had a ton of vibration management or whatever they called it for disc stuff because it was designed for riding on your car's dashboard
also it could handle a lot of weird mp3-ish stuff
 
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You never forget your first.

If we're talking about CD players, my first was the Durabrand.
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It was anti-skip, and it was for many years until I dropped it one day lol.
 
Zune and iPod Classic had a huge competition in the early to mid 2000’s and it was the best way to share and download music for friends to compare and listen to.

If anything, those two things are a lot more great to use than iPhones/iPads and any other streaming service that forces you to sign up for subscriptions that are free, but end up deleting music and/or adding music that you did not ask for.

Case in point:

 
I still have my old iPod Classic and I still listen to it. I never even got close to filling up to full capacity and I have a fairly large (to me at least) music library.
 
I don't really miss mp3 players tbh. They were pretty awesome at the time. Way better than carrying around a discman or the walkman I had before that. The thing I remember most was fiddlefucking around putting music on them or removing music. I had a few of them over the years, mostly the cheaper Chinese ones. They didn't all act like generic USB storage devices. Some of them had special software you needed to use, or you had to use some third party software. Some of them required filenames to be in certain formats or they just wouldn't recognize the track existed, some of them would rename all your songs to Track 1, Track 2....and so on.

I also remember using them occasionally to store and transfer other kinds of files before flash drives were cheap and plentiful and burning a CD would have been too much effort.

They really are kind of a relic of their time and unlike physical media, they don't even really have the whole preservation thing going for them.
 
I had a Zune HD that I used until 2020 probably. Had it since 2011 I think. Loved that little thing. I still have it I just don't need it any more.
 
What a surprise, someone doesn't trust today's streaming media services and stores all the songs that WEF doesn't want him listening to on an offline iPod somewhere.

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Used an old Ipod a few months ago, and even with it's dying battery charged just barely the thing was way louder than my less than half a decade old smart phone that was a flagship when it came out. It wasn't even one of the later model ipods before they transitioned purely to iphone-lites. How are today's DACs in 1000+ dollar phones worse than those in nearly 20 year old devices that were half the price?
 
Grub said:
I don't really miss mp3 players tbh. They were pretty awesome at the time. Way better than carrying around a discman or the walkman I had before that. The thing I remember most was fiddlefucking around putting music on them or removing music. I had a few of them over the years, mostly the cheaper Chinese ones. They didn't all act like generic USB storage devices. Some of them had special software you needed to use, or you had to use some third party software. Some of them required filenames to be in certain formats or they just wouldn't recognize the track existed, some of them would rename all your songs to Track 1, Track 2....and so on.

I also remember using them occasionally to store and transfer other kinds of files before flash drives were cheap and plentiful and burning a CD would have been too much effort.

They really are kind of a relic of their time and unlike physical media, they don't even really have the whole preservation thing going for them.
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I agree for the most part but the concept of storing music on your phone and being able to listen to it anywhere is still appealing to me. It's why I use VLC with my phone and made it into an mp3 player of sorta, minus the hassle of the mp3 players of the 2000s.
 
alot of them were shit because they needed some kind of app...

i still use a couple of those that look like USB sticks for travel. they are tiny, run on batteries and dont need data. they also play every MP3 you can pirate.
 
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