anyone remember this ?

Those buttons, on that exact Walkman, for me was the same as my first touch screen phone.

NOT MECHANICAL BUTTONS FOR FAST FORWARD AND REWIND?



No way man. Just no. No freaking way.
 
£300? Ouch. Back in the early MP3 days, like 2001, it was cheaper to just buy an MP3-capable discman for £70. It would take normal CDs, and CD-Rs that have MP3s burnt onto them. At 700MB per disc, that was quite a high capacity back then and were only 10p or 20p each if you bought a spindle.
 
So it worked, always did wonder.

Call me shocked, that as much as it found itself being used for nefarious purpose.
 
This this was my first MP3 player



Loved it to death and i would have still been using it for a few years more than i otherwise would have if i didn't drop it and broke, i wanted to get another but they were discontinued :(
 
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This cost me £500

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Terminal_Boy said:
I tried to love MiniDisc, but having record from CD at 1x speed drove me nuts.
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I used it for stage work and backing tracks.
I had two cassette players with 1 song on each cassette and a multitude of tapes but the Mini Disk gave me freedom to put 74 mins of backing tracks on 1 disk and choose at will.

I then bought one of those for stage use -

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Funnily enough that cost £250.
 
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Did anyone have to deal with the utter abortion that was NetMD / ATRAC / whatever the horrible Sony music library software was? That would decide to wrap your MP3 collection in DRM and try and enforce some sort of system of checking in and checking out files onto MiniDisc, but would happily erase a disc without also changing the counter on the tracks it just erased.

I have absolutely no idea why Apple ran away with the market when there existed competition like that.
 
I remember myself and a friend going into Dixons one lunchtime when i was at school, he bought an MP3 player... I bought a Minidisc player.... I was the fool that day :( Still have it i think and its in working order
 
robgmun said:
This this was my first MP3 player



Loved it to death and i would have still been using it for a few years more than i otherwise would have if i didn't drop it and broke, i wanted to get another but they were discontinued :(
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What era was that? I was using Discman / CD-based MP3 player up until 2007, then I converted to Creative as well. A 4GB model called Creative Zen, then I later got the 16GB Creative Mosiac, but looked almost the same as the Zen. When that finally died last year, I just used my Galaxy S4 as an MP3 player with the 64GB expansion slot.
 
I had a Rio Karma which turned out to have a hard drive and thumbwheel thing made of dust, so I returned it and bought a 20GB iPod. Never looked back, don't think I've ever not owned at least two pieces of Apple hardware at any point since.
 
My first mp3 player was a iriver h340 it was 20gb and even played ogg had radio and mic. it was heavy though compared to my sansa clip. Before that i had a creative portable cd player that would play mp3 off cds. At the time it was special because nothing could play mp3 yet.
 
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