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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 1 week agoWell, if by ‘similar priced’ you mean: a very cheap player, it might make sense.
But in 2004, I carried an iPod 4G which had either 20 or 40 gigabytes of storage. You’d need a backpack full of MD’s to match that, even if you put lower quality songs on there. I had my iPod filled with everything from podcasts, audiobooks, complete albums and enough random music to never hear the same song in a month. Absolutely loved that iPod!
wisely@feddit.org 1 week ago
Yeah I was a teen that was in poverty still using a black and white TV at the time. Best Buy had MD player on sale and I thought it was the future and wat better than CD. Could get songs for free. Turns out it was on sale because it was a dead format lol.
You could get maybe 8-32 mb MP3 player at the time for that price. I had heard of iPods but remember whatever the price was it looked like you needed to be extremely rich lol. I was price shocked seeing it. Probably would have preferred that though if money didn’t matter.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
MD always felt like a ripoff to me because you had to buy a bunch of overpriced disks from the sole supplier and then carry them all around in a little wallet.
As soon as the first hard drive MP3 players like the Rio came out, MD was a dead end.