• Jarix@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      What mp3 player had any success compared to the ipod?!

      In 1998, the first portable solid-state digital audio player MPMan, developed by SaeHan Information Systems, which is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, was released and the Rio PMP300 was sold afterward in 1998, despite legal suppression efforts by the RIAA.

      There really werent any clear mp3 players standouts available to the public because of letigious RIAA

      But there were many portable cd players that could play mp3 discs when the ipod came out.

      Sonys minidisc player was cool, but an absolute flop from success standpoint, we wanted reusable media, burning cds was often a frustrating process.

      Ill say it again the RIAA was absolutely (litigiously) against any device they couldnt get their fingers into and apple was happy to work out a deal with them with itunes. The next best thing was napster from a user standpoint(though scourexchange was better imo but lasted about a minute)

      Cds were the main way artists released music because rhe RIAA didnt support mp3 anywhere they didnt have to, it took years for people to really switch over to itunes, but they did and streaming took over from there eventually

      Not sure why im getting downvotes, but please correct anything you disagree with

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        10 months ago

        What mp3 player had any success compared to the ipod?!

        A whole 128MB of storage.

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          10 months ago

          First of all, love the username.

          Second, what was that one, and do you happen to know when it was released?

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            10 months ago

            Those were created by the legions, mostly cheap Chinese versions whose chips would fail in summer (source: I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina where we have had 40ºC / 104ºF summers and I had many of those sputtering and dying on me).

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        10 months ago

        It wasn’t 1 company that dominated ,many had mp3 players out. Some of the bigger name brand ones would have been the likes of Sony (after they gave up on the mini disk) and Creative, but there were many others in the early 2000’s.

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          10 months ago

          I fully accept that there were others, but they were not superfluous(not sure if that is the correct word to use but it feels right)

          I guess maybe the point was trying to make is that for portable music the cd player was hands down still the best thing until the ipod took over.

          Much like the (and credit to Sony here) walkman before it, the discman is still the device that people used for digital music, specifically mp3s, until the ipod came out.

          So yeah im saying it took 1 company, apple in this case, to kill the cd. Not because other people werent in the fight, but because of itunes and apples ease of use development