Heh. My first was twice as big. A whoppping 64mb!

8 songs or "In A Gadda Da Vida".

It frightens me when I think back on having had a walkman. Yes, when it was a tape player.

/And that I remember 8 tracks.
//Fark, I think I'm old.

Laoise: It frightens me when I think back on having had a walkman. Yes, when it was a tape player.

/And that I remember 8 tracks.
//Fark, I think I'm old.

Did you have the black one with the orange headphones? Man, that thing was awesome. I wore out so many tapes on it.

Laoise: It frightens me when I think back on having had a walkman.


Yup. You would attach them to your belt....next to the onion.

I got the Rio for my birthday and when my mom picked it up they gave her the 64MB one on accident...my sister was great enough to point this out to the store. I think I still have that...hmmmmm

/Young
//But feel old

I still have my Rio, it even has an old Napster sticker on it.

But I thought Apple invented the mp3 player?

This was my first mp3 player. Still have it and it still works, but I don't use it. It has a compact flash memory system, so it was always "upgradeable." 7 years old...

Wow, 10 years since Apple invented the mp3 player. It only seems like yesterday.

(dammit!)

My first was only 32 mb, maybe enough for 11 songs. I told everyone that this was the future.. but they rather carry their CD's around. Now look who's carrying iPods...

/Too bad I was only 12 at the time, or else I would have bought stock in MP3 companies.

When I was a kid I remember thinking that someday they should put music on computer chips instead of cassettes. Speak and Spell gave me the idea I think. Used to argue with a school friend about it but he thought it was stupid. I guess I won that argument (even though I actually imagined people going to the store and buying albums on actual DIP chips that they would plug into their players. Close enough.

My first MP3 player held one album. Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. I had to make Fingertips one track, and I couldn't tag the songs because that took up too much room.2

My first MP3 player was a Rio 500 that I got on my 16th birthday (2000). I think it cost over $200 at the time. Still works too, though I forget what songs are on it.

Compaq iPaq mp3 player; capacity only limited to how many 3" CDR's you're willing to burn.

UberDave: Laoise: It frightens me when I think back on having had a walkman.


Yup. You would attach them to your belt....next to the onion.

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autumn42: My first MP3 player held one album. Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. I had to make Fingertips one track, and I couldn't tag the songs because that took up too much room.2

When stoned, my friends and I like to recite fingertips in a single song.

wow i really thought rio was the first. strangely, I feel like some part of my nerd past has been shattered.

/wishes i was joking.

Oakenshield: But I thought Apple invented the mp3 player?

Close, they were the first to invent the usable mp3 player.

Whut now biatches?

I'm only 28, yet I remember my older siblings having full-size vinyl records. By the time I got around to buying music, I had a cassette Walkman, and remember how much more expensive the ones with digital AM/FM tuners were. Then the portable CD players came along. Now, I have this, with expandable microSD cards gets me thousands of songs all in my pocket:



Sometimes technology blows my f*cking mind.

Then again, we're only 7 years away from 2015 and there's no indication either of the following will be around by then:



C'mon, Mattel & Nike, get those child laborers' asses moving already.

I remember vinyl, reel to reel, eight track, cassettes, and while I have a bunch of MP3s on disc that I played on my computer, I finally broke down and bought my first portable MP3 player, a Sansa Express.
So far I like it. I wonder what's next. Of them all I miss eight track the most. There was nothing better than that lovely "Krunk" when they changed tracks -- often in midtune.

I had one of these that one of my distributors sent to me, except in silver. Rechargeable with a docking station, they actually had the right idea. It was the first of a number of MP3 or PMP's I have owned, though not one Ipod in the bunch.

My favorite was a Rio Karma that unfortunately met its demise when a pipe burst in my home.

Hey! I had that Rio!

/still do!
//have it in my "archaic cool stuff" shelf

My first was a 6GB Arcos Jukebox. I still have it, and it still works. Glad I could contribute...

I forgot what the first excact type I had was.

Could hold about 20 songs. The only one of them I remember was that Rammstien song that was on the movie XXX. Feir Frigh *sp

That son biatch got stolen.

haagen: My first MP3 player was a Rio 500 that I got on my 16th birthday (2000). I think it cost over $200 at the time. Still works too, though I forget what songs are on it.

That was my first one too. Great little unit but soon after I got it 128MB became the new 32MB.

/remembers rotating songs for the day because I could only fit about 14 even w/added memory.

mistahtom: Whut now biatches?

You whippersnapper



Site has MP3's of wax cylinder recordings. Fill you iPod!

http://www.cyberbee.com/edison/cylinder.html

My first. 32 Mb. Loved that thing. Second player was the revised version. 64 Mb.

My first was an iPod 5gb. Still works, although I haven't used it in years.

Ah, yes. My first mp3 player was one of those Mptrip CD mp3 players. Back in the day I thought a 700mb CD would hold more music than I could ever imagine. Yeah, I thought I was the shizzle with my CD Mp3 player.

Unfortunately, it didn't remember where it was when you turned it off. Also, I learned that if you velcro® it to your Jeep Wrangler dashboard, that thing was going to skip. A lot. Badly.

So today, I have an iPod. Three of them, actually. The first Mini I got as a christmas present, a 1 gig Nano (first gen), and a 30gig 5G iPod Video, which is my main music and porn engine. Two car transmitters and Clear Channel can bite me. All filled with recordings from '80s alternative bands like you would have heard on KROQ in L.A. back when Wil was appearing in ST:TNG.

Yeah, I tried other music players; I got my wife a cheap POS RCA Lycra flash based player that wouldn't even work with her Windows computer (Ironically, I had to use my Linux box to copy music files to it's paltry 128mb of memory) and I tried to use my Palm PDA to play music on SD cards, but eventually it was all outgrown.

So now I have 3846 songs, 16.20 gig of music, and 5.7 gigs of video in the form of ripped DVDs, downloaded pr0n, and TV shows to keep me entertained wherever I might be. All on the iPod.

The 21st century literally rocks!

I want to start an organization, like in Fight Club, except instead of blowing up banks, we just slap iPods out of the hands of every goddamn elementary school student that has one. Don't steal it, just break the goddamn thing and sprint off.

I had that PMP300. Got it for my 18th birthday, 2000. That was the shiat. Plugged into the printer port!!! Held about 13 songs, depending on the bitrate. Good God I thought it was amazing. None of my friends could understand the appeal.

\oh well

My little brother gave me a pmp300 free. Fixed up teh battery compartment and use it while jogging and mowing the farm. Sweet little unit. No plans to ipod, thanks.

My first MP3 player was my computer back when MP3s were still new & portable units like this didn't exist.

/ripped stuff with Blade in ye olden days

oldmopeder: This was my first mp3 player. Still have it and it still works, but I don't use it. It has a compact flash memory system, so it was always "upgradeable." 7 years old...

Since the IDE controller is on the CF card (unlike most other memory card formats which have the controller in the device) is there anything is the player stopping you from upgrading that sucker with a cheap 4GB card? According to Wikipedia, even the CF 1.0 spec could handle 137GB cards.

My first MP3 player was a 128 mb flash RCA Lyra. It survived being run over by a truck. Beat the shiat out of the thing and it kept working.


Now I've got an 80 gig ipod classic, which is great for watching whole TV series (sans commercials) while I'm at work.

Anagrammer: Close, they were the first to invent the usable mp3 player.

Correct. Though, the same folk who would disagree are prone to either pointing at a command line and shouting "What else do you need!?" or biatching about the lack of Ogg support.

/oops. Forgot the ones that stay 100 meters away simply because it's an Apple product
//and the two objective dissenters

Oakenshield

The Lyra came before ipods became all-encompassingly popular. Simple, convenient, easy to use (provided you actually used their software). In fact I didn't like any of apple's offerings until the Classic combined a good form factor with amazing video quality and hard drive space.

I had this ugly ass Creative Nomad Jukebox that was the size of a portable CD player. My parents, real tech geniuses those two...

I can still remember when my dads car had the only cd player, would take my one and only cd out and listen in the car, was still a few years from even being able to drive.

Still have 2 minidisc players, for removable media the minidisc wear pretty neat, these days with memory prices the way they are it pretty much comes down to why bother on anything other than the mp3 players.

gees, these days you are buying about a terabyte of hdd space for what 500mb cost back in the early/mid nineties, and i know there are more than a few of you who can tell me about how you can buy a few terabytes for what it cost to get any hdd earlier than that :).

4th gen ipod, can't be bothered to update, not out of space and it still works.

funny typing this comment on my iPhone while listening to music. And I can't wait for my farking Hoverboard!

Cool. I remember MP3. Glad we moved on from that crap!

My brother had one of those Rios. I was jealous.

/no moving parts, so no skipping!!!1
//technology!!!!1

If you can't see the exponential curve going on here, you are willfully ignorant. The Singularity is near--Very Near.

I pleaded with my parents in 1980 to buy me a Walkman (that's a headphone connected portable cassette deck for you kids on my lawn). My parents finally relented, but we couldn't find one--all sold out.

By 1990, nothing had fundamentally changed, except the price and availability. That's ten whole years, boys and girls.

Now every couple of years we are seeing an order of magnitude more storage space and functionality.

Ten years from now, the iPod (or whatever) implanted in my skull right between my optic nerve and auditory nerves will be connected to ubiquitous broadband.

In twenty years, my cyborg iPod will be connected to the AI that will alert me when somebody says something that is bullshiat, or will correct me when I utter bullshiat myself.

/and it will also do math for me
//where is your God now?

Dio2112: In twenty years, my cyborg iPod will be connected to the AI that will alert me when somebody says something that is bullshiat, or will correct me when I utter bullshiat myself.

Not quite. It'll be more like this: Harrison Bergeron. It will still be connected to your brain stem, but it'll beep when you begin to formulate a coherent thought.