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Mine's still around here somewhere. (startrek.website)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My brother had an mp3 player in 1999. I think it had 16MB of storage space. I didn't see the point of it when you could only put like 5 songs on the thing.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I could fit roughly 1 hour of music on mine, longer if I dropped the bitrate to 96kbps instead of 128.

    The biggest benefit of the mp3 player was that the anti-skip protection didn’t drain the battery twice as fast, no moving parts so it never skipped. This seemed super cool to me because I skateboarded and stuff and generally liked the idea of no skips.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The biggest benefit of the mp3 player was that the anti-skip protection didn’t drain the battery twice as fast

    I strongly disagree. In those days, mp3 players that fit single CDs that were slightly larger than a modern day thumb drive. And you could get 128mb ones for slightly more money. But that was much smaller and more portable than something that had to fit an entire CD.

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