• Albbi@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    My brother had an mp3 player in 1999. I think it had 16MB of storage space. I didn’t see the point of it when you could only put like 5 songs on the thing.

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      9 months ago

      I could fit roughly 1 hour of music on mine, longer if I dropped the bitrate to 96kbps instead of 128.

      The biggest benefit of the mp3 player was that the anti-skip protection didn’t drain the battery twice as fast, no moving parts so it never skipped. This seemed super cool to me because I skateboarded and stuff and generally liked the idea of no skips.