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  2. Portable media player - Wikipedia

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    MP3 became a popular standard format and as a result most digital audio players after this supported it and hence were often called MP3 players. While popularly being called MP3 players at the time, most players could play more than just the MP3 file format.

  3. MP3 - Wikipedia

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    The filename extension.mp3 was chosen by the Fraunhofer team on 14 July 1995 (previously, the files had been named .bit). [1] With the first real-time software MP3 player WinPlay3 (released 9 September 1995) many people were able to encode and play back MP3

  4. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    1959. NAB Cart Tape (Fidelipac) The cartridge known as a "Fidelipac". Analog, 1⁄4 inch wide tape in cartridge, 7 + 1⁄2 in/s & 15 in/s, Introduced in 1959 by Collins Radio, the cart tape format was designed for use by radio broadcasters to play commercials, bumpers and announcements. Synchrofax Sound Paper.

  5. Portable audio player - Wikipedia

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    Portable audio player. A personal mono device as science fiction (Albert Robida, 1894) A portable audio player is a personal mobile device that allows the user to listen to recorded audio while mobile. Sometimes a distinction is made between a portable player, battery-powered and with one or more small loudspeakers, and a personal player ...

  6. RCA Lyra - Wikipedia

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    1999–2009. RCA Lyra RD2312. Lyra is a series of MP3 and portable media players (PMP). Initially it was developed and sold by Indianapolis -based Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc., a part of Thomson Multimedia, from 1999 under its RCA brand in the United States [1] and under the Thomson brand in Europe. There were also RCA/Thomson PMPs without ...

  7. Walkman - Wikipedia

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    The original Walkman started out as a portable cassette player [3][4] and the brand was later extended to serve most of Sony's portable audio devices; since 2011 it consists exclusively of digital flash memory players. The current flagship product as of 2022 is the WM1ZM2 player.

  8. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [14] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...

  9. History of podcasting - Wikipedia

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    Called PocketDJ, it would have been launched as a service for the Personal Jukebox or a successor, the first hard-disk based MP3-player. RantMedia were early pioneers of various internet radio programs dating back to 1999 (What The Hell podcast, incorporating IRC chat and video before YouTube chat was created) and 2005 (Newsreal with Sean ...

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