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"

yep

[JustNiz]

>>> (remember the Pocket Concert?).

Sure. I have one. Anyone wanna buy it?

Re:yep

[Agret]

Mine was good but I forgot to feed it. The conducter died and the remainder of the group disbanded.

Re:Collectors or memoribilia? hahahahhahahahhahaha

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

"Aah, I remember my first Mac Mini. It was beautiful! All glowy and colorful and nice for the emailing and typing and things. Good times, good times."

"When did you get your Mini, Grandpa?"

"Should be here next Tuesday..."

Bad hardware, bad music

[GaryOlson]

N Sync and Faith Hill on a five year old MP3 player....they deserve each other.

Early MP# Players Review

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember this?
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hell! I remember when I listened to Mp3's in 64kb!! They don't encode things like they used to."

Re:Title is incorrect.

[Dogtanian]

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.

Dr. Who

[sonixtwo]

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.

obligitory zappa quote

[jeffehobbs]

"It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia."

--Frank Zappa

Re:Still haven't gotten a mp3 player.

[Sv-Manowar]

I feel obliged to take this space before a reply with a "freepsps.com" referral code comes and grabs it ;)

Re:I'd take

[jacksonj04]

But an iPod shuffle is a sexy white *and* plays MP3s, what more could you require?

Re:Dr. Who

[mikael]

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.

And they'll be playing the Sigue Sigue Sputnik track "21st Century Boy" ... Stereo ... video...

Re:Heh

[jacksonj04]

It sounded warmer than these new-fangled 320kbps...

Sir,

[chrisbtoo]

I find your ideas intriguing and wish to buy your comment.

Re:But does it?

[glenstar]

In order to be fully effective this question needs to be superceded by:

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)

Re:Title is incorrect.

[XorNand]

Learned from their mistakes? Betamax, DAT, ATRAC3... It doesn't look like they'll ever learn.

Re:Collectors or memoribilia? hahahahhahahahhahaha

[Sparr0]

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).

Likely it's for Foleys.

[infonography]

Foleys [audiotheater.com] are sounds used in movies and tv shows for certain effects.

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!

Re:Collectors or memoribilia? hahahahhahahahhahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

"Grandpa?"

"Yes, son?"

"Have you been taking your medication?"

Re:Sir,

[Anonymous Coward]

Bidding starts at $1.00, or you can click the "Buy It Now" button for $15.99. I'd say buy it now, or somebody'll snipe ya in the last minute of the auction.

I got a good deal on a couple of +5 Insightfuls that way. Framed 'em and everything.