History

The actual antecedent in the bazaar abode of the agenda audio amateur was the carriageable CD amateur and above-mentioned to that, the claimed stereo.

IXI

British scientist Kane Kramer advised one of the ancient agenda audio players, which he alleged the IXI. His 1979 ancestor was able of about one hour of audio playback but it did not access bartering production. His UK apparent appliance was not filed until 1981. Apple Inc. assassin Kramer as a adviser and presented his plan as an archetype of above-mentioned art in the acreage of agenda audio players during their action with Burst.com about two decades later.

Audible.com MobilePlayer

The aboriginal production-volume carriageable agenda audio amateur was The Audio Amateur (also accepted as MobilePlayer, or Agenda Words To Go) from Audible.com accessible for auction in backward 1997 or January 1998, for USD $200. It alone accurate playback of agenda audio in Audible's proprietary, low-bitrate architecture which was developed for announced chat recordings. Accommodation was bound to 4 MB of centralized beam memory, or about 2 hours of play, application a custom rechargeable array pack. The assemblage had no affectation and abecedarian controls.

SaeHan/Eiger MPMan

The aboriginal carriageable MP3 amateur was launched in 1997 by Saehan Information Systems, which awash its “MPMan” amateur in Asia in bounce 1998. In mid-1998, the South Korean aggregation accountant the players for North American administration to Eiger Labs, which rebranded them as the Eiger MPMan F10 and F20. The flash-based players were accessible in 32 MB (about 6 songs) accumulator capacity.

Diamond Rio

The Rio PMP300 from Diamond Multimedia was alien in September 1998, a few months afterwards the MPMan, and aswell featured a 32 MB accumulator capacity. It was a success during the anniversary season, with sales beyond expectations. Interest and investment in agenda music were afterwards spurred from it. Because of the player's ballyhoo as the ambition of a above lawsuit, the Rio is afield affected to be the aboriginal DAP.

HanGo Claimed Jukebox

In 1998, Compaq developed the Claimed Jukebox, which was the aboriginal harder drive based DAP application a 2.5" laptop drive. It was accountant to HanGo Electronics (now accepted as Remote Solution), which aboriginal awash the PJB-100 (Personal Jukebox) in 1999. The amateur had an antecedent accommodation of 4.8 GB, with an advertised accommodation of 1200 songs.

Creative NOMAD Jukebox

Various iPods, all of which accept now been adapted or discontinued

In 2000, Creative appear the 6GB harder drive based Creative NOMAD Jukebox. The name adopted the jukebox allegory popularised by Remote Solution, aswell acclimated by Archos. Afterwards players in the Creative NOMAD ambit acclimated microdrives rather than laptop drives.

Cowon iAUDIO CW100

In October 2000, South Korean software aggregation Cowon Systems appear their aboriginal MP3 player, the CW100, beneath the cast name iAUDIO. Ironically, Cowon would afterwards be accused for 'stealing' the 'i-prefix' from Apple, admitting the iAUDIO cast getting launched one year above-mentioned to the aboriginal iPod archetypal and aimed alone at the Korean market.

Archos Jukebox

In December 2000, some months afterwards the Creative's NOMAD Jukebox, Archos appear its Jukebox 6000 with a 6GB harder drive too.

Apple iPod

On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer apparent the aboriginal bearing iPod, a 5 GB harder drive based DAP with a 1.8" Toshiba harder drive and a massive 2" connected display. With the development of a spartan user interface and a abate anatomy factor, the iPod was initially accepted aural the Macintosh community. In July 2002, Apple alien the added bearing amend to the iPod. It was accordant with Windows computers through Musicmatch Jukebox. In 2007, Apple alien the iPod Touch, the aboriginal iPod with a multi-touch screen. Its media amateur was breach into the Music and Videos apps.

Archos Jukebox Multimedia

In 2002, Archos appear the aboriginal "portable media player" (PMP), the Archos Jukebox Multimedia with a little 1.5" blush screen. Manufacturers accept aback implemented abilities to appearance images and play videos into their devices. The next year, Archos appear an added multimedia jukebox, the AV300, with a 3.8" awning and a 20GB harder drive.

Microsoft

In 2004, Microsoft attempted to yield advantage of the growing PMP bazaar by ablution the Carriageable Media Center (PMC) platform. It was alien at the 2004 Customer Electronics Show with the advertisement of the Zen Carriageable Media Center, which was co-developed by Creative. The Microsoft Zune alternation would afterwards be based on the Gigabeat S, one of the PMC-implemented players.

SanDisk Sansa

In May 2005, beam anamnesis maker SanDisk entered the PMP bazaar with the Sansa band of players, starting with the e100 series, and again afterward up with the m200 series, and c100 series. The Sansa Appearance was slated for 2007 but was shelved afore the affairs went into effect. Added discontinued alternation cover Connect, Express, Shaker, Clip, Fuze, e200, and c200. The accepted alternation cover the slotPlayer, Clip Zip, Clip+, and Fuze+.

Mobile phones

Samsung SPH-M2100, the aboriginal adaptable buzz with congenital MP3 players were produced in South Korea in August 1999. Samsung SPH-M100 (UpRoar) launched in 2000 was the aboriginal corpuscle buzz to accept MP3 music capabilities in the U.S. market. The addition advance rapidly beyond the apple and by 2005, added than bisected of all music awash in South Korea was awash anon to adaptable phones and all above handset makers in the apple had appear musicphones. By 2006, added MP3 players were awash in adaptable phones than all stand-alone MP3 players put together. The accelerated dispatch of the media amateur in phones was quoted by Apple as a primary acumen for developing the iPhone. In 2007, the installed abject of musicphones anesthetized the 1 billion level.