Our first MP3 players (yes, including the iPod)
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Before phones and streaming services, it was the humble, single-function MP3 player that held all our music. Check out the full story here:
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Keep telling us about your first MP3 players! And do they still work?
It didn’t make the cut but out of our crew we also had one second-gen iPod and two iPod minis still going strong. And you guys saw the Sansa still in action!
I still have my first mp3 player. It was the Ipod(black) Video 30gb.
Mine was a Creative
I still am using the Sansa mp3 player till this very day.
Panasonic SV-SD80
Some Sandisk from Circuit City. I still use CDs and a iPod touch to save battery on my S9 Plus.
Dell DJ! Loved it, it had a voice recorder and radio, however I did get an iPod mini a year or so later.
Did he say 256 GB iPod 2G ????
Am I the only one who thinks Bridget looks like the girl from the dark night js
Does SONY mini disc count as a mp3 player? Lol
I use to use the creative muvo series after Sony mini disc
I had a creative muvo tx fm 128 MB music player as my first digital music player.
32mb Casio watch mp3 player then I got the Iriver iHP-120 & I put on Rockbox! I still have no idea how Fractals work.
Had a Sony Walkman then a 4th gen ipod touch then a 5th gen ipod touch and still using even though I have a iPhone 8 plus
My first MP3 player was a 4GB SanDisk Sansa, loved the thing because it had an FM radio and OLED display too
Still have my sanza 🙂
Of all the MP3 players that was on the market why is this video primary Apple??? What about Zune… What about Diamond Rio… iPod wasn’t the only MP3 player back in the day.……
Sansa Fuze > Fuze + > 160 GB iPod Classic.
My music folder on PC is still called FUZE. They all still work, gave each Fuze up when it surpassed its song database limit where it couldn’t find the new songs anymore. IPod still works but iTunes has a hard time connecting, so finally switched to my phone full time a year or so ago.
Currently use a 256 GB micro SD on my phone with my entire mp3 library. I will NEVER switch to streaming because you don’t own it.
Mine was this hand-me-down blue Sandisk sansa mp3 I got when my sister got her first ipod back in like 2007.
My first one I actually bought was an iPod shuffle
My first iPod was the iPod Classic 5th generation color. Got it when I was 24 and thought it was so cool to see the full color album covers (I refused to get an MP3 player before that because I loved album covers). I still have the latest touch version and despite people giving me shit for it, I prefer it over spotify, Pandora, etc.
My first MP3 player was a Samsung YP-U1 when I was in college in 2006. It had a tiny screen with a USB port and microphone. I could use it as a flash drive and record stuff. I used it every day for about three years.
No iRiver love??!!
Mine was a Sansa Clip Mp3 player with a teeny weeny screen!
my first mp3 player was a hiyundai 128mb mp3 player which had a built in radio. I won it.
The first ever MP3 player that I saw was my friends in art class. It could hold 12 songs and cost him $200.00 — $300.00
Not one mention of the one player that was solely responsible for bringing the DAP into the mainstream which allowed Apple to figure out how to make it legal and profitable at the same time. The Diamond Rio PMP300 was my first digital mp3 player and it had a whopping 32mbs of internal memory which allowed me to carry 2–4 full albums ripped at 96 vbr. I even splurged on 2 16mb smart media cards that I would swap out if I wanted to rotate songs as if they were tiny cds. It was a pain to use and the build quality was crap but it was the best audio device to commute with since the alternative was either a bulky cassette Walkman or stuttering skip prone cd/mini disc player at the time. Ripping cds became a daily activity and Napster was in it’s infancy back then but most of my music “trading” was done via IRC using dial up modem.
There’s no love for the Creative Vision M? It was the only mp4 player that actually gave iPod some real competition which Apple blatantly stole some UI features in later generations that lead to the ipod touch.
Good memories
I still use a sansa … it’s embarrassing, but it still lasts a really long time between charges because it’s just text on a black screen. sound quality is really good too.
but I definitely get looks sometimes when I take it out to go through a menu.
2Gb IPod nano 👍
now I like the ipod… but I respect that one girl for not going for the popular option
My first was the Philips gogear, 8 gigs of plasticky glory shortly followed by an RCA thumb drive then an ipod nano 2nd generation.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 to everyone that enjoyed the run from radio to the digital era
I had that sansa it was called the sansa e40 4gb mp3 they have em on eBay
0:36 What a liar! Haha
Team SanDisk Sansa Clip! Woooooo!
Lol no Rios huh
I had a sansa just like that, lol
I like the sansa girl. I also had a sansa for my first mp3 player and hate everything crapple.
this was mostly ipods an one mp3 this title is wrong ggaaahhh