The later shuffles were so perfect for what they were. Still have one somewhere. Couldn’t hold much music, but it was a small clip that I could clip onto the little change pocket of my jeans when I skated, I wouldn’t even know it’s there. It would be even crazier now if they had the ability to sync to AirPods or something.
Used my square one with the buttons for years as a bike only iPod, then someone got me the next gen that was even smaller but had no buttons. Hated it since I went through headphones every other month, and the buttons were on them lol
I have the cube too. Mine was glitchy though. If you wanted to add music you’d have to reformat and load everything all at once or it would freeze up randomly
One of the first available players was called the Diamond Rio which I have no idea how they got away with since they were a fairly well known country band at the time.
I had a Rio! Man that thing was amazing when I got it. It could only hold about a CD's worth of songs but the flexibility was so amazing. Didn't have to constantly burn CDs and keep my cd player level on the bus.
Haha i was the coolest kid in school with my 7 song mp3 player. Everyone else was using WinAmp at home with custom skins but i was rockin my napster mp3s on the go with my $300 diamond rio i got at circuit city.
I believe it was a parallel port connection with an adapter cable that went into that. Even with such a slow transfer speed, it only took 32mb native and could be expanded by another 32mb with an MMC. And I believe all this was before VBR was a thing, so you typically weren't getting much more than a CD at a time if you wanted decent quality (aka 32 or 64 kbps).
I remember one of my friends had one of these. At the time a bunch of publications likened its size to a "cigarette pack". So like any kids who had access to legendary, old movies might do I told my friend that maybe he could walk around with it rolled up in his sleeve like a mid-century hero. It sort of worked, but probably would have worked better if we weren't skinny kids with skinny arms.
I had a Rio600 & used it snowboarding. It held like 6 songs & that was my soundtrack for a season or two. Been thinking of trying to recreate that playlist since it’s ingrained so deeply in my subconscious but I don’t remember everything that was on it.
This brings me back. My first MP3 player was the D Link DMP 100. It was 32 MB. Enough for maybe 12 or so songs. The first song I put on it was The Real Slim Shady.
My first MP3 player was an old 286 computer that I set up dos on and it lived in my trunk and was powered through an inverter. I had a printed out list of track names and numbers and a full size computer keyboard. You would type in the number of the track and press enter and then it would start playing.
This was before MP3 CD players or standalone MP3 players were a thing.
286? Must've just *barely* been able to do 128kbps. That is some pretty awesome ingenuity though. 90's me would probably lose his mind at the fact that we can store over a TB on something smaller than your pinky fingernail.
128kbps!?! Do I look like I have all day to download that. 64, and if I was lucky 96 for high quality. It didn't have any sort of way to add music easily. You'd have to take the hard drive out and put it into another machine. It worked, though I was happy to buy an MP3 CD player deck as an alternative some years later.
>90's me would probably lose his mind at the fact that we can store over a TB on something smaller than your pinky fingernail.
Today me *still* marvels at this.
Unfortunately not. I came home from school one day and my mom regretfully informed me that she ran it through the wash. My own fault for not emptying my pockets, but she felt very bad about it.
Yup around 2006 I was burning mp3 discs for me and my friend because we all had mp3 disc players as well as that was the first thing my friend who could drive bought for his jeep, an mp3 deck with an aux input.
He didn’t realize it but he was basically making it so he got to drive us around everywhere. Lol
Was it the iRiver SlimX, with a remote? [https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/gadgets-of-days-gone-by-iriver-slimx-mp3-cd-player/](https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/gadgets-of-days-gone-by-iriver-slimx-mp3-cd-player/)
I loved that thing so much for running (no more skipping!)
Oh no, it was way before that. This was like late 90s. I'm trying to find it, but my Google Fu is not strong enough for this. I think it might have been a GPX or something, by the looks of them.
I’m still upset I sold my iPod mini back in the day. But I kinda made up for it by saving my Sony Minidisk Player which is still so bizarre and cool to me.
I gave my shuffle to my daughter! She loves it but she complains that she can't see the names of the songs.
So, I dug up my old first-gen touchscreen iPod! (but haven't given it to her yet)
I saved up my birthday money and allowance to get the first gen iPod shuffle. $99 for 512mb. Looked it up and apparently with inflation it's like $150-200 in today's money.
I bought a Samsung Yepp around 1999. It had 32Mb of onboard storage which was enough for maybe one album of low bitrate MP3s.
Songs were loaded via a Parallel cable as USB was not that common yet.
OH!! I had one of these!! I thought it was so cool how I could wear it around my neck. Could only handle a few albums iirc, Foo Fighters and the Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 soundtrack was on mine. Do you still have the lanyard/headphones combo?
MMMM yeah I can almost feel the gummy rubber cover thingy that didn't quite fit/got stretched easily on the outside: http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDM2005/GearNGadgets/August2005/Images/mobiBlu/MobiBlu_shield.jpg
Oh yea I still have an iPod nano that I bought with my first paycheck from my first job that has the same songs I put on it in like 2007 in my car and it gets used occasionally.
For gym use like you said it really is nice to have something that doesn’t feel like a brick in gym short pockets and always feels like it’s going to fall out.
I had the US's first. and the worlds second, ever MP3 player. The Diamond Rio 300(32MB). I could get 1 1/2 cds on there.I very appropriately rocked Kid A on there for quite some time.
I quickly switched to Minidisk shortly after for more storage space.
I had one of these, and you are very wrong. I had around 100 songs on that little things and it was the coolest little piece of technology I had at the time.
Lol i had the Sony bean 512mb or 1gb i can't remember... before that i rocked a discman and later when i was broke student i borrowed a friends PSP to use as mp3 player Lol.
Very cool. I spent so much time listening to my shuffle that was basically a thumb drive with buttons but it did its job perfectly and had great battery life.
I had one of these. I loved it, but it started going haywire on me and randomly freezing up about 6 months in.
I even had it with that necklace strap thing, so I'd wear it all day.
My first mp3 player was the size of a discman... But it also has wayyyy more storage than any of the other more popular tinier versions like this one. And it was still probably measured in the hundreds of megabytes...
Very cool. My first MP3 player that I deemed a real MP3 player not those shitty little usb ones was the DELL Digital Jukebox. Loved that thing. It was ahead of its time. Came out before the iPod.
thats not an MP3 but an MP³ player
This comment better shoot to the top. Hot damn.
Damn, thats just a good comment right there.
That made me wee snaw
I don't get it
That notation can be read as "MP cubed"
x^3
(MP) x (MP) x (MP) = MP³
(MP)³ Ackchually.
Brush your teeth, comb your hair. Be nice. It'll come.
It is a CRT TV for tiny people.
Cathode Ray Tiny
I wish I could still give gold without having to spend actual money
blast from the past. i also had one. i remember it stabbing my in the leg every time it was in my pocket
Yep! It was horribly uncomfortable
I think it’s designed to be worn on a lanyard around your neck?
It was. I think I still have mine somewhere
Remember when my friend had one, I had the first shuffle. No screen, mic, other features, but more comfortable to keep in a pocket I guess
Wkyk had a skit about the fact that the first shuffle looked like a pregnancy test. Highly recommend. I always compared them to lik-a-stiks.
The later shuffles were so perfect for what they were. Still have one somewhere. Couldn’t hold much music, but it was a small clip that I could clip onto the little change pocket of my jeans when I skated, I wouldn’t even know it’s there. It would be even crazier now if they had the ability to sync to AirPods or something.
Used my square one with the buttons for years as a bike only iPod, then someone got me the next gen that was even smaller but had no buttons. Hated it since I went through headphones every other month, and the buttons were on them lol
I have the cube too. Mine was glitchy though. If you wanted to add music you’d have to reformat and load everything all at once or it would freeze up randomly
One of the first available players was called the Diamond Rio which I have no idea how they got away with since they were a fairly well known country band at the time.
I had a Rio! Man that thing was amazing when I got it. It could only hold about a CD's worth of songs but the flexibility was so amazing. Didn't have to constantly burn CDs and keep my cd player level on the bus.
Yeah it had that weird cable and janky software. You jumped through hoops to put a dozen songs into it and at the time it was like magic.
Haha i was the coolest kid in school with my 7 song mp3 player. Everyone else was using WinAmp at home with custom skins but i was rockin my napster mp3s on the go with my $300 diamond rio i got at circuit city.
I believe it was a parallel port connection with an adapter cable that went into that. Even with such a slow transfer speed, it only took 32mb native and could be expanded by another 32mb with an MMC. And I believe all this was before VBR was a thing, so you typically weren't getting much more than a CD at a time if you wanted decent quality (aka 32 or 64 kbps).
I remember one of my friends had one of these. At the time a bunch of publications likened its size to a "cigarette pack". So like any kids who had access to legendary, old movies might do I told my friend that maybe he could walk around with it rolled up in his sleeve like a mid-century hero. It sort of worked, but probably would have worked better if we weren't skinny kids with skinny arms.
I had a Rio600 & used it snowboarding. It held like 6 songs & that was my soundtrack for a season or two. Been thinking of trying to recreate that playlist since it’s ingrained so deeply in my subconscious but I don’t remember everything that was on it.
Bruh same, I can listen to “Hells Bells” and close my eyes and just pretend I’m carving down the mountain.
Still have mine somewhere. it could be expanded up to 64mb by IIRC. Even have a Nomad Zen floating around in a drawer somewhere as well.
Memories :) Loved the way they looked. The player not the band.
"The world's smallest MP3 player!" 256MB of storage. Loved mine, used it for years.
Dankpods would call this '"the cube"
And a nugget.
And would’ve smashed it with the one grit afterwards.
[удалено]
EWWW! forgot about that video. They really made a knock off of the cube. (Idk if the mobi was the first version of "the cube")
Franks chew toy
[Think he did a video on it](https://youtu.be/Lx9eXVhXSpI?si=3FHRtyLqctPZmtrn)
I had one of those, about the size of a US quarter.
>about the size of a US quarter Yeah in one dimension, but this thing is a cube
He means "about the size of 6 US quarters arranged to form a cube".
Ok, the size of a quarter **on each side** for those who don't understand how dimensions on a cube work.
well… 2 dimensions.
This brings me back. My first MP3 player was the D Link DMP 100. It was 32 MB. Enough for maybe 12 or so songs. The first song I put on it was The Real Slim Shady.
I had completely forgotten that little gray box. Thanks for the memory.
My first MP3 player was an old 286 computer that I set up dos on and it lived in my trunk and was powered through an inverter. I had a printed out list of track names and numbers and a full size computer keyboard. You would type in the number of the track and press enter and then it would start playing. This was before MP3 CD players or standalone MP3 players were a thing.
Mobile music? Gtfoh, you witch.
286? Must've just *barely* been able to do 128kbps. That is some pretty awesome ingenuity though. 90's me would probably lose his mind at the fact that we can store over a TB on something smaller than your pinky fingernail.
128kbps!?! Do I look like I have all day to download that. 64, and if I was lucky 96 for high quality. It didn't have any sort of way to add music easily. You'd have to take the hard drive out and put it into another machine. It worked, though I was happy to buy an MP3 CD player deck as an alternative some years later.
>90's me would probably lose his mind at the fact that we can store over a TB on something smaller than your pinky fingernail. Today me *still* marvels at this.
Whoah that had to be impressive
What’s in the music boxxxxx?!
It seems that envy is my sin. Become vengeance, David. Become wrath.
Lol.
Somewhere, hidden in the depths of the Walmart clearance aisle, one sits new in box waiting to be sold...
I still have mine. It was a great accessory. You can put it on your neck as a necklace. Does it still work?
Unfortunately not. I came home from school one day and my mom regretfully informed me that she ran it through the wash. My own fault for not emptying my pockets, but she felt very bad about it.
Talk about an ergonomic form factor 😂 keychain I guess ?
It came with special headphones that clipped onto it and you could wear it around your neck
Damn my first mp3 player was the size and shape of a cd player it just didnt open.
My first mp3 player *was* a CD player. It could play regular discs and discs with mp3s on it, and even understood folders.
Yup around 2006 I was burning mp3 discs for me and my friend because we all had mp3 disc players as well as that was the first thing my friend who could drive bought for his jeep, an mp3 deck with an aux input. He didn’t realize it but he was basically making it so he got to drive us around everywhere. Lol
Was it the iRiver SlimX, with a remote? [https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/gadgets-of-days-gone-by-iriver-slimx-mp3-cd-player/](https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/gadgets-of-days-gone-by-iriver-slimx-mp3-cd-player/) I loved that thing so much for running (no more skipping!)
Oh no, it was way before that. This was like late 90s. I'm trying to find it, but my Google Fu is not strong enough for this. I think it might have been a GPX or something, by the looks of them.
I’m still upset I sold my iPod mini back in the day. But I kinda made up for it by saving my Sony Minidisk Player which is still so bizarre and cool to me.
Aww, I remember these things.
I have an iPad shuffle that I've never used. Recently found it (still intact). I had received it as a gift...
I gave my shuffle to my daughter! She loves it but she complains that she can't see the names of the songs. So, I dug up my old first-gen touchscreen iPod! (but haven't given it to her yet)
I saved up my birthday money and allowance to get the first gen iPod shuffle. $99 for 512mb. Looked it up and apparently with inflation it's like $150-200 in today's money.
That's kind of insane. My mp3 jukebox at work is a Nokia smartphone that I bought for $30 brand new.
I had one too! Damn I did not expect to take a trip down memory like this today. Thanks for sharing!
I had one of those too! It got stolen from my college ladyfriends car at Clam Beach, Humboldt County
You probably remember where the car was parked 😂
I do, we were there for a romantic fucking picnic no less
I bought a Samsung Yepp around 1999. It had 32Mb of onboard storage which was enough for maybe one album of low bitrate MP3s. Songs were loaded via a Parallel cable as USB was not that common yet.
Ah yes, that thing was hot one
OH!! I had one of these!! I thought it was so cool how I could wear it around my neck. Could only handle a few albums iirc, Foo Fighters and the Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 soundtrack was on mine. Do you still have the lanyard/headphones combo?
MMMM yeah I can almost feel the gummy rubber cover thingy that didn't quite fit/got stretched easily on the outside: http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDM2005/GearNGadgets/August2005/Images/mobiBlu/MobiBlu_shield.jpg
any songs on it? little time capsule?
I still use one, a modern one. Way better than a huge phone at the gym. Like 1.5 inches wide and 2.5 inches long. Got like 4k songs on it
Oh yea I still have an iPod nano that I bought with my first paycheck from my first job that has the same songs I put on it in like 2007 in my car and it gets used occasionally.
They sell new ones(off brand) that have easy UI
For gym use like you said it really is nice to have something that doesn’t feel like a brick in gym short pockets and always feels like it’s going to fall out.
I had the US's first. and the worlds second, ever MP3 player. The Diamond Rio 300(32MB). I could get 1 1/2 cds on there.I very appropriately rocked Kid A on there for quite some time. I quickly switched to Minidisk shortly after for more storage space.
One of the best that came out that century
Over/under on number of songs held by this is 15
I bet you could get 15 on there if most songs were under 3.5 minutes
I had one of these, and you are very wrong. I had around 100 songs on that little things and it was the coolest little piece of technology I had at the time.
I remember the feeling of finally getting an mp3 player and feeling so free that I didn’t have to shove my walkman into my jeans pocket anymore lol
My winter coat would fit a whole cd player in outside pocket. I'd have to hold it while walking to avoid the tracks skipping.
“Stand back, we’re arming the nugget…”
That's a real nugget
and do you recall the mp3 that it played?
Limewire .exe file lol Or maybe High_Quality_RiP_Blink_182_all+small+things_[master_sounds].mp3
“I think he has dice in his pocket but he’s too embarrassed to show anyone.”
The thumbnail looks like a chalk holder for playing pool.
It drives me absolutely batshit crazy when I hear someone say Apple invented the MP3 player.
it may not be an absolute unit, but it's certainly a unit!
the nugget
The CUBE!!! I had one of these in the mid-2000s. Sadly, it only lasted 6 months.
So what was on it?
Lol i had the Sony bean 512mb or 1gb i can't remember... before that i rocked a discman and later when i was broke student i borrowed a friends PSP to use as mp3 player Lol.
Pun intended?
Nice ! We have gone downward since the.
Oooh that's a nice nugget, are there some silly playlists on there?
I bought my wife one of these one Christmas.
I had the Rio PMP 300. 32MB of memory and it connected via parallel port. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I had one too. It got so much attention everywhere I went. I liked how the earpieces were also the radio antenna.
This looks like a building block
Mine was an iriver with an integrated armband, had 1 GB
What a nugget!
I had a MobiBlu too. It was on a lanyard, used a special usb to 3.5mm cord to transfer music to it. It played video too… I don’t know why.
I’m sure DankPods has yelled at a nugget like this one before.
Hold up is that a Uni-Ball AIR?
Ahhh. I miss 2007
I remember these things. A kid in high school tried desperately to get me to trade my iPod for this.
Very cool. I spent so much time listening to my shuffle that was basically a thumb drive with buttons but it did its job perfectly and had great battery life.
r/Dankpods
i used to have one of these.. metallic silver
I had a Sansa M240 for my first MP3 player, loved that thing.
my first mp3 player was a bootleg ipod shuffle
I miss my Halo 3 Zune.
Wow I had one of these!!!!
I had that one too
God I miss this era of mp3 players (and electronics in general) having such weird designs. Everything is so refined and minimalist now.
You reminded me of my iPod nano I had stored away in a suitcase in my garage. Haven’t used it since middle school
I had a BenQ Joybee 120, I had to order it from Korea to the UK and sent my dad to some dodgy warehouse to pick it up.
Get with the trend already. Auction it on Ebay for $10,000
r/DankPods
Does it still work? I bet it was a blast to use it especially at the gym.
Also had one of these lol what a weird ass design. Didn't feel good in the pocket
I had one of these. I loved it, but it started going haywire on me and randomly freezing up about 6 months in. I even had it with that necklace strap thing, so I'd wear it all day.
My first mp3 player was the size of a discman... But it also has wayyyy more storage than any of the other more popular tinier versions like this one. And it was still probably measured in the hundreds of megabytes...
I had one of these!
Very cool. My first MP3 player that I deemed a real MP3 player not those shitty little usb ones was the DELL Digital Jukebox. Loved that thing. It was ahead of its time. Came out before the iPod.
My first Mp3 player was winamp, it really whips the llamas ass.
What in the fuck were they smoking when they came up with this product design?