Ongoing History Daily: More tales from the early days of digital music

Twenty-five years ago–this would beryllium the precocious 90s–MP3 players did exist, but they were big, clunky things with precise constricted memory. I had thing called an RCA Lyra which could clasp possibly an hour’s worthy of tunes astatine precise debased resolution. The happening sounded similar an AM radio. But determination were plentifulness of experiments.

The set Sneaker Pimps released a azygous connected a instrumentality called the Diamond Rio, which was 1 of the archetypal (if not THE first) wide disposable MP3 players. Around the aforesaid time, David Bowie—a feline who was ever looking ahead—made his Hours medium disposable for download weeks earlier it was released successful stores. It indispensable person taken forever—literally hours—to download the happening successful 1999 due to the fact that galore radical were inactive restricted to dilatory dial-up modems.

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It would beryllium different mates of years earlier things began to resoluteness with the instauration of iTunes and the iPod.