First MP3 Player Turns Ten

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Has it already been ten years since the first MP3 player came out? Jeez, where did all the time go?

Still, first is first, so help keep the MPMan's rich history alive, and celebrate its ten-year anniversary this month with campfire songs and story-telling. Check out the archived read link of the original Eiger Labs site for a wild and wacky trip through time.
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Awesome.. lol. I remember having a Diamond Rio 600 with 32MB of memory. MP3's never sounded crappier.. haha.
 
I remember getting my first digital camera/MP3 player combo back in 2001. Gotta love 16MB of storage and 2 Megapixel quality. :/
 
I had one of those early crummy Rio models too. Bleh. Of all the MP3 players I owned, I still have never bought an iPod. :cool:
 
i remember my first mp3 player, one of the rio pmp300's...i even had a 32mb card in the expansion slot, that was pimpin! had that thing for years too. then i got a creative muvo tx 256mb, still have it in fact. just got a zen 5 plus love that little thing. never owned an asspod either and don't want to :p
 
ah memories,

I remember that PMP300, it was so cool to listen to mp3 (32mb, 8 songs yay) because nobody had those back in 99, lot of good memories even if that little thing (for the time) was really fragile (I had to open it several times to re-do some cold solders, the battery cover was a piece of crap, it always clipped off).

Anyway it was cool :)
 
Rio was the only mainstream brand I ever remembered back then. My first was a 2nd Gen iPod in 03', and now my current 5th gen.
 
I had the Iomega HipZip. In a way, I kind of miss it even though I haven't had it in years.
 
SneakX said:
ah memories,

I remember that PMP300, it was so cool to listen to mp3 (32mb, 8 songs yay) because nobody had those back in 99, lot of good memories even if that little thing (for the time) was really fragile (I had to open it several times to re-do some cold solders, the battery cover was a piece of crap, it always clipped off).

Anyway it was cool :)
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you too eh? i must have re-soldered mine half a dozen times or more. i finally got pissed off at it, got one of those cheap plastic battery clips from radio shack, remove the stock battery cradle and litterily cut the battery side out of the casing and hot glued the radio shack one in. never gave me any trouble since lol.
 
My first mp3 player was a Boston CD player that read mp3 as well as normal cd's. It was portable, had some anti-skip and could holds a crap ton of music, all for $70.00. That was back in 2000. Not too bad, amazing how far we've come.
 
I should dig out my old Rio PMP300 and do a side by side comparison with my iPod touch. I think that's about as far apart on the tech scale that you can get for an MP3 player...
 
I had a diamond rio as well, 32mb. That thing cost me $200 when it first came out and held about 8 songs in the snow uphill both ways.
 
I bought a PMP300 direct from Diamond the day they could legally ship them to Canada. Had it FexEx'd overnight from California to downtown Calgary :D

$400 US with an extra 16MB chip lol
 
k1DBLITZ said:
I had a diamond rio as well, 32mb. That thing cost me $200 when it first came out and held about 8 songs in the snow uphill both ways.
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:D

Mine was hand crank and only had 640K memory, because Bill Gates said that "ought to be enough for anybody"!!
 
Love the ad on the archived link. "100% Solid State: Never Skips or Wobble". Yes, it sucks when the music starts to wobble. " 32MB Flash Memory: 30 min to several hours of music". You can easily get hours of music onto 32MB. Of course you can't make out the 4k bitrate song.
 
THRESHIN said:
you too eh? i must have re-soldered mine half a dozen times or more. i finally got pissed off at it, got one of those cheap plastic battery clips from radio shack, remove the stock battery cradle and litterily cut the battery side out of the casing and hot glued the radio shack one in. never gave me any trouble since lol.
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well I didn't have this idea for the cover, I tried to glue it back (even tape it back lol) without success and finally when I got all the soldering problem I gave up shortly and bought a RioVolt, which was cooler because it had MP3 Cd support and even UDF compatibility. Since I got a SONY MP3 CD player when the RioVolt broke (which didn't take too much time, no more solid state) and today I have a Sandisk 2GB MP3 player that I don't use too much.
 
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