The Strange Story of the Mp3 Player

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In this episode we'll take a look at the unusal history of the Mp3 player. Some people may think it began with the iPod in 2001 but the story begins back in 1979 with Kane Kramer.

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[denniss]

I am 59 and was a purchaser of many of these early devices, these videos are a great trip down memory lane, keep them coming

[maxwelzig]

I liked this video. Keep up the great work. Though I also like the futuristic videos you make

[CHURCHISAWESUM]

"Hey bro thanks for making billions of dollars in sales for us possible, here's a defective iPod lmao"

[nathangriffith]

I don’t know if I’ve ever commented on YouTube before, but everything you make is gold!

[alecbayrine]

Bro u dont need to change anything, personally i love your videos and am a fun of the way you explain things in detail and your voice too(no homo). Keep it up man, just be you coz there are people who love and appriciate the hard work u put in...people like me! Bless up

[global]

Tech history is littered with brilliant minds loosing out on recognition of their inventions & never financially reimbursed by those that making a fortune off them. Great video BTW. Love the history ones.

[raouliz]

I like these types of vids and your "How Big is..." playlist where you provide the history of innovators and how they started the companies we love and hate today. I also like your own nostalgic music mixes together with your amazing storytelling. That is what makes you pure gold in the YouTube space (what I subscribed for originally when first watching ColdFustion at the time). Keep up the good work and keep on releasing more higher quality content

[Jazzmaster]

I still have the MPMan, bought it when it was released. Memory card with space for 7 MP3 songs, and still working great with original earplugs. I compressed these MP3 with one of the first DOS based compressors that was available at that time.

[bodo_Te]

more precisely: MP3 aka MPEG1 Layer3 was mainly invented in Erlangen, Germany at the "Fraunhofer Institute" (IIS-A) by a group of engineers around Prof. Seitzer and Dr. Karl-Heinz Brandenburg. (Source: I was one of the group members)

[TheTwick]

Love this stuff. Too many people forgetting their History.

[pkbreeze]

I'm always impressed by the amount of effort you put into your videos Dagogo, always well researched with captivating visuals.

I'm a big fan of the recent history of the tech industry videos you put out, because I always learn something new, or they cover a topic I would never have given a second thought to had it have popped into my own mind.

Thank you for introducing me to Kramer, he should be remembered for something more than defence in a law suit.

[belovedconsole]

I found this fascinating, and posted to my friends on Facebook. I remember in mid-2000s seeing a friend with an Apple mp3 player and I was tripped out by its interface and construction. I remember when the Walkman came out in the 80s, amazing us. This seemed similar. And yet both of these lasted so short comparatively because of how quickly tech changes, and that to me is also part of the historical importance of this. My parents grew up with records, and those were there for their entire generation. Me, I have to put up with tech changes and disruptions every 10-15 years, I find that interesting.

[CrazyTobster]

E-Books and e-book readers also came to life in the 1970's. The technology is way older than most people realise

PDF is the original e-book format.

[aarons.]

"...vinyl records were at their prime."
Shows a shellac record.

[FahadNazir]

At some point in our childhood we all wanted an mp3 player more than anything.

[SheikhAhmedBah]

I have heard bill burr rant about this for so long and I thought he was just trying to annoy the Steve Jobs Stans. 'Thank you for giving it structure.'

[auktyon]

This video ignores some interesting parts of the history: the competition between Creative Labs NOMAD players, the Microsoft Zune, iRiver devices, and Apple's iPod. The reason iPod eventually dominated was that their devices were so well designed, pretty, slick, more compact (iPod actually stole the interface idea from Creative Labs, and had to settle the lawsuit). iPod didn't immediately squash the competition because of the requirement that people use iTunes (which was and still is a buggy monstrosity -- although I did grow to like it more, with time). On the other hand, Creative Labs had significantly better sounds quality (my subjective opinion), and you could simply drag and drop files into the player, which many preferred (and it had a replaceable hard drive, which I upgraded to 100GB several years before iPod could match that). I think it's the success of the iPhone which led to the iTunes ecosystem domination, which ultimately squashed other mp3 players (note that some successful models by competitors were quite profitable even *after* iPod was released, but in my view the very successful iPhone 4 - not the iPod - put an end to that)

[TommoCarroll]

What did the MP3 player say to the headphones?


..."Wassup buds?"

[jacobh.]

Yes I like these types of videos from you! I like tech history!

[OrganicAct]

This is a great video! I really enjoyed it. Thanks again.