Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)

Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by FabHK on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:16AM (#12785490)

Were other MP3 players supported before the iPod?

Wikipedia's iTunes history [1] says iPod support came in October 2001 (i.e. when the iPod was released), and Rio One support in December 2001, and doesn't really mention other MP3 players.

At any rate, the faithfulness with which the iPod presented the iTunes music library was great.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_iTunes#iTunes_2

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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by kalleboo on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:57AM (#12785644)

January 9, 2001: "Apple Introduces iTunes — World’s Best and Easiest To Use Jukebox Software"

"download songs to popular MP3 players from Rio and Creative Labs with plug-and-play simplicity with no extra software or complicated driver installations required."

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/01/09Apple-Introduces-...

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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by FabHK on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:20AM (#12786136)

Thanks!

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Re:Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable ... by duskwuff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:10AM (#12785692)

Yes. Support for those other players was already present in SoundJam, and was carried over to early versions of iTunes essentially unchanged.

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