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Collectors Snap Up Early MP3 Players
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like vintage MP3 portables are the hot new collectible for old radio connoisseurs.
On the cover of this month's edition of Antique Radio Magazine is Sony's first DAP, the Vaio Music Clip. The cover article is the second part of a series showcasing the first players by Sony, RCA, I2Go, and Intel (remember the Pocket Concert?). Part one, which was published in the December 2004 edition, covers the first flash unit the Eiger Labs MPMan F10 (the Rio PMP300 was second), and the first hard drive player the Personal Jukebox PJB-100. CNET also wrote about these first players last January, offering more details on the MPMan and the PJB-100"
>>> (remember the Pocket Concert?).
Sure. I have one. Anyone wanna buy it?
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N Sync and Faith Hill on a five year old MP3 player....they deserve each other.
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Remember this?
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
"Hell! I remember when I listened to Mp3's in 64kb!! They don't encode things like they used to."
This is about digital music file players, not just MP3 players. The article even mentions that the first item, the Sony, would not play MP3's.
Nothing much changed there, then.
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Did anyone see the second episode of the new Dr Who series? It was called The End of The World, and the Dr. and his assistant went to the future. WHile there, some future people bring out a jukebox and say "An ancient source of historic music...an IPod!" (or something like that). Kinda funny.
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But an iPod shuffle is a sexy white *and* plays MP3s, what more could you require?
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Can you run Linux on it?
Is the source available? Is the code under the GPL? (see question above)
Is the firmware open?
Potential Follow-on questions include:
Does it play FLAC?
Does it use DRM? (Note: this is a *negative* question)
Did MS have *anything* to do with its creation? (Negative question, see above)
Learned from their mistakes? Betamax, DAT, ATRAC3... It doesn't look like they'll ever learn.
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I bought my first MP3 player almost 10 years ago, and still have it. What it lacks in features it makes up in durability and battery life (20+ hours on a pair of cheap nimh AAs, 40 on lithiums).
I was thinking of making certain alleys, wooded areas, and houses into Foley Prank zones.
Say someone is walking along at night thru a certain area and a shriek or a moan comes from a dark corner. Even with a flashlight nothing is visible. Simple really, just use a battery, a old mp3 player, and a speaker. Put on a bunch of dead air tracks and a single creepy sound, set to random and once you've hidden it your done.
I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
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