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The Development of MP3s
MP3 players are an incredibly versatile piece of technology which can play music, or for some modern devices, video files and images. They enable the user to take their entire music collection with them, wherever they go. They eliminate the need for the person using the MP3 player to carry the large and unwieldy CDs which are required for portable CD players. Because of their nature, MP3 players can be very small, increasing their portability. This article will look at the development of the MP3 player as a media device.
Technically, an MP3 player is not the correct name for the device. Instead, they should be called Portable Audio Devices, as the file format of the music played on these devices can differ, from not only mp3s but also wma and wav files. A portable audio device is one of a range of different consumer electronics that stores, organizes and plays digital audio files in a variety of storage formats and audio formats, which includes the extremely popular mp3 file format. In more recent years, the devices have become known as portable media devices, as they can also store videos and images.
In terms of its place in the history of portable music, MP3 players are the successors to the compact disc player, which is sometimes also called a "portable audio device." It is a little known fact that the first media player that could make use of and play digital files was invented all the way back in 1979. This primitive device could play about three and a half minutes of audio data. However, it did not enter any sort of commercial production. The inventor of this device, however, was quickly hired by Apple inc to work on a portable media device for their own company.
After the initial development of this device, work steadily continued on digital audio players until the first commercial player was marketed midway through 1998. At this time, the audio player made use of a particular kind of storage system called "flash memory." Because the device only came with 32 MB of storage capacity, the player could only store from 6 to 12 or so songs. However, for the time, this was revolutionary and the device, which was also notable for its small size, was popular because it could interface well with any laptop or desktop computer.
In the early 21st century, Apple computer marketed the first hard drive-based MP3 player- the Apple IPod. The original IPod was about 1.8 inches in size and could store approximately 1200 songs in its 5 GB memory. With this number of songs available, people were willing to pay the several increased asking price that Apple were charging. Those who were taken with the idea of carrying their entire music collection with them rushed to buy the IPod.
Nowadays, the typical MP3 player is sold with a variety of different storage mechanisms. The two most popular such methods of storage on a typical player are the flash memory and the hard drive-based memory system. In terms of technical composition, a flash memory device is purely non-mechanical and solid-state and can hold music internally or can access music from storage media that are known as memory cards.
MP3s truly changed the face of music in America, plummeting record sales into nothing and making it so that record companies couldn’t make any money. After all, if you could download all your music for free, why would you pay for it?