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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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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

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

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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