Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30

Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by koolba on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:33AM (#18714945)

Is it the Diamond Rio PMP 300 you’re thinking of?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

That thing was awesome and really blew people away with how small modern electronics could be. Re-encoding mp3 files at 16kpbs (so you could fit a decent amount on the 32MB) made the music sound like crap but we didn’t care.

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Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by gergles on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:47AM (#18715527)

A lot of people think the Rio was the first commercial MP3 player, but GP seems to probably be thinking of the actual first commercial MP3 player, the MPMan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPMan

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Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by welly on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:23AM (#18715750)

That was it! MPMan. It cost a fortune but it felt like the future.

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Re:Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 by mavhc on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:25AM (#18716737)

Good feeling, it was the future! People still pay $400 for an mp3 player, but it's also a phone and a computer now

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