[QUOTE="G-Man88"]i never bought a CD before, im not that oldMagnumPI
I remember when compact discs were introdced but it was years before people converted to compact discs. Probably because it's predecessor was a big clunky thick record sized disc that was forgeten before it was heard of. They claimed CD sounded better than cassette but by stereo usually the didn't and if they did it wasn't by much. The only real benefit was that you didn't have to rewind it or flip, just pick the track or tracks. But on the computer with all of the sound hardware and software CD is much better than cassette. But all of this advanced sound sampling and mixing didn't exist until after DVD anyway.
Back in the 90s Creative Labs was selling an MP3 player similar to the ipod, but back then nobody wanted and MP3 player. Not until apple made one and advertised the hell out of it. I bet if Creative Labs advertised their MP3 on Television people would have been using MP3 players long before the Ipod and Creative's would be more popular. This is a lesson in how important advertising is.
I don't listen to much music, but the plus side is MP3s are much easier to steal. No more trying to rip the security tape off of discs or hiding them in your cloths. The music industry and computer industry have combined forces to make sure their stuff easy to steal so nobody makes any money.
My first mp3 player was this Samsung Yepp, which was later sold to Creative to become their first mp3 player model... 64mb with black and white one line screen woo
The design was way ahead of its time, actually. Ipod kinda copied it.
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