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Happy Birthday MP3 Player. You're 10!

reghardware.co.uk — The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. It connected to an old-style parallel port on the host PC from which songs could be copied to the player. There was a tiny LCD on the front to give an indication as to what you were listening to.

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  • webaddict, on 03/11/2008, -40/+13Happy Birthday MP3 player, I'm sorry you've been monopolized by Apple and Microsoft, I had better hopes for you. :D
    • exomni, on 03/11/2008, -2/+61Monopolized by Microsoft and Apple? What the ***** are you talking about? Creative, Sandisk and Samsung are all ahead of Microsoft in market share.
      • banmaster, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1Actually, they're not. MS is #2 right now.
        I prefer the Creative players myself, if I can't use it as portable storage (out of the box without 'hacking it') I'm not going to buy it.
    • santaliqueur, on 03/11/2008, -2/+32Monopolized by TWO companies? You need to learn what the word "monopoly" means.
      • IncogMosqui, on 03/11/2008, -7/+0this.
      • pintomp3, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2you can still have a cartel, but that's more applicable to the recording industry.
    • sparsely, on 03/11/2008, -1/+3They've DRM'd & proprietary'd their offerings to death. There are still good products out there. Archos FTW
    • astrotrain, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4He has a point....If you go up to a person on the street and say do you know what an mp3 player is... a good chance they are going to say "iPod"... Apple has enclosed the word of Mp3 to their own iPod... If you were to tell folks there was a better player, etc... they would look at you like you spoke Chinese to them.

      Now if you tell people who have spend thousands of dollars on iTunes... that they just are renting their music, they will be quiet upset. They have chosen the 'blue' pill and wish to think what they bought is theres, and thats it.... that is until they leave Apple and the 'red' pill becomes a reality and they wake up to a pile of useless files because Apple and the RIAA revoked the rights.
  • halfgook, on 03/11/2008, -14/+9i had one of those :)
    • unreg, on 03/11/2008, -1/+5I still have my Rio300. Beyond the sketchy battery door, it was a solid piece of kit. I remember slapping down $60 for a 32 mb card, and just today I saw a 2 gig card at Wally-World for ~$40.

      Damn technology has thundered along.
      • ShrimpCrackers, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1Actually you had a Saehan MPman MP300, rebranded as a Rio. The 3rd mp3 player ever made. The first is mentioned in the article and the second one was the F20 64mb variant.

        The Rio PMP300 is actually a licensed model from Saehan. Saehan was a sister company created by Samsung to absolve them of all troubles in case MP3's became illegal (it was under courts then).

        MPman still exists, its the Samsung Yepp series. In fact almost all the early Rio and Creative models could be seen on the old MPman site months prior to them being re-branded. After it was made clear that MP3s were in fact legal, Samsung closed down Saehan and merged its products with the rest of the Samsung line.
        • webdeshel, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1That's cool! You learn something new every day, thanks for the info!
      • banmaster, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1$40 for 2Gb? Dude, you got ripped off!
    • nyrol2, on 03/11/2008, -0/+2I still have my Eigerman F20V MP3 player that has 32mb of internal memory. I expanded it with a SmartMedia card to a whopping 64mb! I re-encoded all my songs to 32kbps so that I could have more than one album on it.
      • Mpwns, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1i had one that looked almost like this its was called jamp3 i think paid like $100 for it it had 16mb of flash built in and i spent the same amount of money buying a sd card for it. dont remember the size just remember being mad spending 100 bucks for a tiny card. and the thing was huge compared to whats out now.
      • campbelljb1, on 04/02/2008, -0/+0nyrol2 - any interest in selling your F20V MP3 player?
  • JoshuaLowe, on 03/11/2008, -5/+39On BOL yesterday they mentioned the RIAA got a 10 day injunction against the sale of this device. The record industry has been opposed to digital music from the very beginning. And look how that's worked out for them. Not well.
    • solid12345, on 03/11/2008, -9/+3Let's be honest though, why did people stop buying CD's when downloading become available? What did we all coincidentally wake up and say "***** the RIAA!" when mp3's became easily distributed online? Where was all this anti-establishment before Napster, Kazaa, TPB, etc.? Back then most people bought CD's and never said a word. The whole "***** the RIAA" thing is a front for "yeah we really don't want to pay for music no matter what its priced"
      • Lukesed, on 03/11/2008, -0/+17We traded tapes long before MP3's came out, but we didn't have the internet as a venue for us all get pissed off at the RIAA togther.
      • astrotrain, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2Actually things would have remained more quieter if it wasn't for Metallica and that PITA Lars whining about there music being stolen.

        But in any case, if you go back to the 60s... the Greatful Dead embraced you bootlegging their shows and swapping them.
        • solid12345, on 03/11/2008, -0/+2When did the shift towards hate for the RIAA begin though? At first we were all pissed at Metallica and called the musicians greedy. Then all of a sudden it became "the fat cats in suits are greedy" and now the musicians are "underpaid" and don't get their proper profits from album sales.

          Why is it not cool to rip on bands with their millions of groupies, big mansions featured on MTV cribs, limo rides, private planes, etc. I hardly think they are getting the shaft by the record companies.
      • insllvn, on 03/11/2008, -1/+5I think it is more about the outrageous way the handled everything from Napster on. Napster had a good model, add supported digital distribution. It just didn't make enough money for all the record execs to buy jets and Bentley's and blow. The RECORDING INDUSTRY Association of America is becoming obsolete, and they could have evolved. They could have cut profits and streamlined. It would have been tough, and a lot of record execs probably would have lost their jobs, but ***** happens. Instead they tried to get (and have mostly succeeded) the government to punish people who disobeyed them, and to bully people into buying music at much more than it is worth.

        The music I listen to is around 20-40 years old or older. It still sells for the same cost as newly burned CD's of the latest sensation. Music doesn't devalue? Of course the artist no longer needs that revenue, hell most of them are dead. The copyright has been renewed by greedy record execs, or the multimillionaire children and spouses of some people who were really all about contributing or rather creating something of real beauty. That is a perversion of the nature of art.

        A CD costs a few pennies to manufacture, and very little to record and mass produce on modern computer and CD mass burner technology. Very little of the revenue from CD sales goes to the artist, they make most of their money off of tours and merchandise. I would pay no more that $2.50 for a CD, and do it happily if most of that went to the artist. That is my line in the sand. Music would need to be good to net an artist millions, and no one would be able to live of one hit CD that contained one flavor of the month hit song. I would go even further, and say that if I were allowed to make digital backups (I would anyway) and DVD movies cost $15 for new release blockbusters, $10 for most new release, and $5 for older classics, I would buy all the movies I wanted, instead of downloading.

        I truly believe an evolution in our thinking about information property rights is in order. Art, or good art, is created because someone feels a passion for it. Britney Spears is because someone wants to make money off an attractive (she was once, I swear) minor, so real prostitution isn't an option. Art is for the benefit of society, and a true artist would starve in pursuit of it. Not only would music get better, but the market would be less saturated with crappy wannabes so real talent would persist and make plenty of cash. The internet is increasingly the place people go to discuss and discover music, and would act as an organic free form publicity machine for bands that deserve it. Like I said, I would pay for music that I felt was priced fairly, and I would have a higher tolerance for the cost if more went to the artists and less or none to the record companies. The future is cheap or free digital distribution and bands could make money from sales of merchandise and concert tickets. We were fine before copyright law, indeed we were more free than we are now, and we will be fine when they are gone.

        Sorry, I got off on a rant there, but hey that is just my opinion.
  • babak91, on 03/11/2008, -16/+178Having an LCD screen still makes this more advanced than the shuffle.
    • pirloui, on 03/11/2008, -15/+3tsk, I want no screen on my shuffle.
    • ExSlashdotter, on 03/11/2008, -11/+332MB over a parallel port?

      And you think its more advanced than a 2GB shuffle the size of a quarter with a ridiculous seemingly never-ending battery? I'm guessing you're to young to have ever actually *used* a device over parallel.

      Sure, okay.
  • nascentia, on 03/11/2008, -1/+31Wow, 10 years already? I still have my first MP3 player...a Rio with 64 MB of internal memory. Those were the good days...AudioSlave, AudioGalaxy, direct downloads...*sigh*
    • tekiek, on 03/11/2008, -1/+12I had one too ... a cheap $250
      • Murfshay22, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6oh man, what a deal! I later updated mine. Added a 128 mb smartmedia chip for JUST $125.

        128 mb seemed so big... how could they fit anymore space onto a chip that small?!
      • unreg, on 03/11/2008, -2/+1You could get almost two whole albums on it. I'd sit around trying to decide which ones, what was the best use of the limited space.
    • uziko, on 03/11/2008, -10/+1how was that the good days? you have the exact same thing today but you can hold more songs

      stop saying that people, we have the exact same thing we had 50 years ago only better, you want a mp3 that holds less songs? buy one
      • econofast, on 03/11/2008, -2/+6I think he meant the abundance of free mp3s on the web. I still wear my audiogalaxy t-shirt. That site was awesome. How about the mp3.com disc ID thing where you instered your physical disc and it unlocked the mp3 on their server? So much innovation killed off in its infancy....
        The mp3 players themselves, however, are a million times better now.
      • allhard, on 03/12/2008, -0/+1MP3 is a compression technology, not a device. You probably call Bluetooth headsets a "Bluetooth" as well.
    • IglooBurner, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1damn i paid 275 for my rio 500.
      i got the 300 when it came out too, as a gift from my dad.
      the 500 lasted me a long time, i had it all the way through sophomore year of college.
    • TheUngod, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1I loved my Rio. It played mp3's I could burn directly to CDs so I had 650MB of storage while everyone else had a crappy 64 or so. Too bad the batteries couldn't even make it through a day.
    • MxM111, on 03/11/2008, -18/+1To be precise, this is not the first MP3 player. The first MP3 player was PC.
      This is not the first portable MP3 player, that would be laptop.
      This was not first pocket size player, at 91 x 70 x 165.5mm I doubt that you could put it into pocket. Ria was the first.
      But it was first portable SOLID STATE digital audio player. Here we go!
      • unreg, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4I dont think you understand the definition of solid state.
    • Lunarbunny, on 03/12/2008, -0/+1I had a Rio PMP300 I got for $100 in 2000. Still remember paying in 20s and 1s at the Circuit City they were being sold at (I was in 6th grade) It worked reasonably well but ended up dying around 2004. Even before then I had issues with the battery sometimes getting jostled, and it lacked any sort of capacitor to make up for momentary battery lapses.
    • jhaks, on 03/12/2008, -0/+1I still have my Rio Carbon! Poor Rio went out of business. They made some really great music players. What other company puts out two firmware upgrades even after going out of business?
  • samsoffes, on 03/11/2008, -4/+24I don't miss carrying my Case Logic around with hundreds of CDs. Thank you MP3 Player
    • pintomp3, on 03/11/2008, -2/+15you should have gotten the cd case that automatically turn portable.
  • DiggzDE, on 03/11/2008, -9/+3This only reminds me of how old I am. :(
  • PeTeRZz, on 03/11/2008, -3/+528 songs! almost a whole album!
  • americamatrix, on 03/11/2008, -1/+60I have a Diamond Rio - holds ~ about 8 songs...Got it for Christmas in 8th grade, its a work horse, thing still works!
    PMP300 FTW!
    • razordancer, on 03/11/2008, -1/+8I was an early adopter of that one too - I actually thought it was the first MP3 player (maybe the first to major market?) I remember planning out 32MB playlists to listen to while cruising around. I still have it, but don't have the cable =/
    • Sippi, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6Mine still works also.... was a life saver on all the road trips I had to take while playing basketball.
    • pyronik, on 03/11/2008, -1/+10haha i remember that thing, i still use it to this day for running.... I remember when I got that thing I got ***** for it because of my jealous classmates thought it was nerdy or something ha ohh now everyone has them!
    • TheCash, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1So this thing came out in March of 98, but my best friend got a Rio for Christmas our senior year in 97.... so how is this the first commercially available MP3 player if Diamond beat it to the punch by 4 months?
    • spookyttws, on 03/11/2008, -0/+3I got mine in 9th grade, I remember someone else had a Sony Minidisc player. He thought he had the superior product. Heh.
    • Dgen_X, on 03/12/2008, -0/+1Loved my PMP300, about two months after I received it as a gift, it started randomly shutting off, and restarting. I sent an email asking for some help, and got a reply asking for my name address, and serial number...and about 3 days later a brand new PMP300 showed up on my doorstep, with no request for the old one back. But as it turns out, the battery terminals would slide out of place now and then and lose contact...so after fixing that both worked great (the second had the same issue.)
    • stalky14, on 03/12/2008, -0/+1I had one that I paid full price for at Best Buy right after they came out because I wanted to get one before they got "shut down". Glad that didn't happen. I later gave it to a friend because his broke and I had gotten an Intel Pocket Concert back around 2000 when Intel was dipping its toe in the personal media business. I loved that Intel player. Solid, rechargeable, USB (the Rio was so slow over parallel!), dock(!) that could be hooked into a home stereo. I still have that one somewhere. I stopped using it after getting a car stereo that played MP3 CD's.
  • ronaldmonster, on 03/11/2008, -24/+13Don't get the mac fans here, they swear the iPod was the first mp3 invented.
    • candafilm, on 03/11/2008, -3/+8I only see two iPod references and they are both bashing it. I don't know what Mac fans you are talking about.
    • santaliqueur, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4The only mac fan who is saying that is the hypothetical fictional mac fan you created.
  • falafelkiosken, on 03/11/2008, -2/+17lol I see RIAA was fighting in vain back then too…
    • canUdi9it, on 03/11/2008, -2/+3Dugg for "Recording Industry Ass. of America"
    • gypsi, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1the beginning of the end of music industry tyranny
  • Ganja420, on 03/11/2008, -10/+5Atleast the Diamond RIO's had fm tuners...
  • threemagic, on 03/11/2008, -12/+5NANANANANANANNA you say it's your birthday...NANANNNANANA well it's my birthday too, yeah..
  • Muncher, on 03/11/2008, -3/+16I know I'm just stating the obvious, but wow, the technology has come a long way. I remember when I was proud of my 128 MB player (I think I gave it away a couple years ago).
  • iamthejeff, on 03/11/2008, -2/+12My first was a 20GB Creative Zen Jukebox that I got for around $700 CAD after taxes and everything. I think I got it in 2001 or 2002. :)
    • lpmiller, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2i had one of those. Thing would lock up on certain songs it didn't like, and it would play certain songs over and over again till I deleted them. Seemed so cool at the time though.
    • Braxo, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1I had both that one and the Diamond PMP300. Used the Jukebox for my car to hold all my songs.

      Though I seem to remember it only have 5GB, must have been a cheaper model.
  • benchwarmer, on 03/11/2008, -10/+2excuse me but i think mp3 knows very well how old it is
    • KSUdesigner, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6Remember that next time your birthday rolls around and nobody wishes you happy birthday.
  • imLissy, on 03/11/2008, -2/+9I still have my first mp3 player. It holds 4 whole songs.
  • capiCrimm, on 03/11/2008, -17/+4Inaccurate, my laptop could handle Mp3's before this.
  • aserer511, on 03/11/2008, -7/+2ground breaking.
  • DurtyJ, on 03/11/2008, -4/+11I was still using my Rio when iPods started getting popular. And everybody thought I was lame.
    • kelly, on 03/11/2008, -3/+24Don't worry... we still think you're lame. It had nothing to do with your Rio or lack of an iPod.
  • SpikeFury, on 03/11/2008, -5/+1We've come a long way...
  • wukillabee, on 03/11/2008, -20/+17zune > ipod
    • badqat, on 03/11/2008, -9/+2social much?
    • RedGreen1, on 03/11/2008, -4/+6I wonder if wukillabee wonders why he hasn't made any friends on Digg yet.
    • Krosfire, on 03/11/2008, -5/+10Zune ROCKS
    • pnunn, on 03/11/2008, -7/+2Do you really believe that- or is that just what your grandma bought you?
    • Ndiggnation, on 03/11/2008, -5/+5So you're the guy that bought one?
    • Jeffler, on 03/11/2008, -1/+3Don't get why he's being buried - if I wasn't such a fan of iTunes I would've bought a Zune 80 instead of an iPod Classic.
    • DarkSamus, on 03/11/2008, -2/+1you're getting a brown zune
  • sdbyrd, on 03/11/2008, -5/+2yeah, my first (portable) mp3 player was my laptop i would tote around in my car and had RCA inputs via headphone jack.
  • TheG2, on 03/11/2008, -3/+5My first one was an Archos with a 20gb HD...cost me a few hundred but the thing is a tank and still runs.
    • DeadBabyFloat, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1I had the 10Gb, but the HDD finally died on it a few years ago.
    • astrotrain, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1The Archos is still alive and kicking from 4 GB to 160 GB versions out.... take ALL your media with you.
    • Fratm, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1I had an Archos 30Gigger, it died 2 months after I bought it, and took them two weeks to replace it.. I sold it on ebay and bought another product for a lot less money, and it works just as well.

  • t2t2, on 03/11/2008, -3/+21"... a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA)"
    No comment @ Ass.
  • AriaGloris, on 03/11/2008, -9/+2Man I loved my Rio - ***** THE RIAA
  • fotofunguy, on 03/11/2008, -6/+1They have been trying to screw everyone from the very beginning of mp3 times. ***** the RIAA.!!
  • rkho, on 03/11/2008, -9/+6I remember the first iPod was the size of a "deck of cards". LOL at that. I love how technology is advancing so rapidly these days :)

    Just a few years ago, we would've claimed shenanigans at the iPhone's functions. These days, we bash a phone for not living up to the iPhone's standards.
    • JMSantos, on 03/11/2008, -1/+9We do?
    • rikwakefield, on 03/11/2008, -5/+5not sure why you're being dugg down
    • gfnw, on 03/11/2008, -3/+6The iPhone's standards? I take it you missed all the hooplah over the the iPhone actually lacking functions of other smart phones when it was released?
  • BigPlastic, on 03/11/2008, -7/+2Guess this anniversary doesn't include disc-based MP3 players.
    • hoodedrobin, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2I guess not... But I guess it does include flashbased and hard drive based mp3 players, even though they are pretty different.
  • MrSketch, on 03/11/2008, -10/+3No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
  • i4ybrid, on 03/11/2008, -2/+11I used to have a Diamond RIO. Those things could be expanded! I was like the first person in my Junior High to have an MP3 player. God that thing was ugly...
    We should do a timeline of MP3 players...
    big bricks that used AA's, 32MB flash memory, CD MP3 Players, iPods, MP4 players..etc
    • jxfallout, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4Personally, I kinda like the Rio Diamond's appearance.

      As a matter of fact, my first MP3 player was also made by Rio. The Rio Nitrus (1.5 GB), to be exact:

      http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4445/1724187258 ...

      I've since upgraded to a Zune 80GB (I hated swapping albums to and from the player, so I simply decided to go all out in order to carry around all of my albums).
      • gfnw, on 03/11/2008, -3/+3In before "witty" comment from some retard about the Zune being a downgrade.
  • Snakedal337, on 03/11/2008, -2/+5I paid $170 for my first one, I think it was 2000, 32 mb of memory, but it had an expandable card slot, up to 128 mb. I was sweet carrying around my little wallet of cards while everyone still had discs. Ha. Discs.
  • No0n3, on 03/11/2008, -3/+1I bought a MPMan F50 hoping it'd make me the cool kid. I just ended up being the kid with the 'huh what's that, some sort of mini-disc player?'. Good times.
  • LittleFishChan, on 03/11/2008, -3/+7Am I the only one that thought it was funny that when referring to the RIAA the author wrote "Recording Industry Ass. of America"?
  • uziko, on 03/11/2008, -8/+2My computer played mp3s before that.
    • astrotrain, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1I was working with .mp2 technology before .mp3....
  • themoose, on 03/11/2008, -5/+18***** THE RIAA!
    • moletimer, on 03/11/2008, -3/+3****** thee, RIAA
    • FurtThePirate, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4surprised that it took this long...
    • Matt174e, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2Indeed. Ten years ago marks the initial ***** of the RIAA, before the ***** turned back on us. Sparking a ***** war on the world wide web, leading to epic court *****.
    • canUdi9it, on 03/12/2008, -1/+1Recording Industry Ass of America
  • Vo0Ds, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6I had a casio watch mp3 player with 64meg of spacious awesomeness, like wearing a washing machine on your wrist.
  • zephyear, on 03/11/2008, -7/+2oh man when i first got an ipod i was the first one at school, i was the coolest kid.

    then the next gens came out :(
  • bj1989, on 03/11/2008, -2/+2Even though it's ten years old, it looks pretty slick.
  • pintomp3, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2i still have my rio pmp 300 somewhere. 32MB for $200, but it was worth it to stick to the RIAA who tried to stop it.
    http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Diamond+Multimedia+P ...
  • Braxo, on 03/11/2008, -1/+2I bought the Diamond Rio PMP300 at $200. I thought it was a great price back then, I never had to buy a CD again!
  • CaptainEnglish, on 03/11/2008, -1/+1Actually, MP3 player technology and digital storage of music was first patented in the UK in the 1970's. The patent sadly expired without use, as technology t the time couldn't hold more than about thirty seconds of music.

    And sadly, as I read this in "the week", i have to say [Citation Needed]
    • SSUK, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1You're not the living incarnation of Wikipedia. Stop being an idiot.
  • sharper130, on 03/11/2008, -7/+2MP3 say hello to MP4

    http://www.mp4nation.net/
  • Harboggles, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7I remember having a Mini Disc player. I loved that.
  • Maluka, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7I was writing for an mp3 site that was pushing the Rio. That was right after Hilary Rosen barged in shutting down sites. I had a Creative Nomad, a huge sucker that held 6 gigs and was so heavy it had to be carried in a case. 500 bucks! Now I have a Zen and it's amazing how the prices have dropped. I'm anti-iPod. That should get me some thumbs down :)
    • Mpwns, on 03/11/2008, -2/+1well in truth ipod sucks, apple just knows how to make things look sexy to us geeks and we cave in since it looks sleek and stylish.
  • jaymay, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1haha awesome. i remember my Rio, having to change the songs every night because i got SO tired of listening to the same 30 songs.
  • badnewsblair, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1I had a Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP300 and I loved that thing! I would throw that thing in my pocket and head off to class in college. When the latch on the battery cover broke on it for the third time, I gave it to a friend. It was a heck of a machine though.
  • tkilgore04, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1Wow only 10 years old, you sure have grown!
    I had a 128 mb Rio in probably 2001. Ancient device.
    • SSUK, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1I had a 128mb Technika until... Today. Living off 31 songs (LAME 3.9 compression) was murder. Though the thing did last me 5 years, so got to hand it to the little thing, it's been through a lot.
  • billizm, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6And I thought my pentium running DOS 6.0 in the trunk of my car, interfaced via a TI-85 calculator running a custom program, was the first "portable" MP3 player. MP3 players have indeed come a long way. =)
  • darknesfallz, on 03/11/2008, -0/+1just bought a philips 6gb mp3 player for under $36. Wow technology has gone a long way. (8 songs for $200 < 1500 songs for $36)
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