It’s the tenth anniversary of the mp3 player. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the Diamond Rio PMP300, but the MPMan F10.
So, I almost have a collectible piece of gadgetry. In high school I got an Eiger Labs F20V, which is the second generation of the MPMan F10. As far as I know, the thing still works, though it’s probably lost somewhere in my parents’ house. Still, second gen of the original isn’t bad, right?
It brings back fond memories, too. Like after a basketball game when a teammate of mine was talking to someone about how he heard about these cool things that you could put songs on from your computer. I got to interrupt the conversation and go “oh, that thing you’re talking about? You mean this.”
Then there was the time I discovered that because our computer speakers sucked and the sound quality on the player was so poor I could encode mp3s at 64 kbps and it sounded fine. That made my early mp3 collection largely useless after a few years, but luckily my tastes had evolved enough that it wasn’t a big deal. I still had some of those 64 kbps mp3s when I started college.
All right, I’m done now. I assume this is what my generation’s nostalgia looks like. I’m sure you old people were drooling over your 8-track and record players in the same manner.
We’re so much cooler than you were.
Not even close, cupcake. Brain Salad Surgery on original vinyl. That’s so cool.
Ah, yes. My computer was so slow back then, I was running a 486DX2 when everybody was getting their fancy schmancy Pentium 2 computers. I was so excited about the MP3 phenomenon that I converted several songs to .wav format so they could play on my computer. But, alas, I couldn’t fit much more than 10 of them on my 300MB hard drive. And my computer froze up while they were playing so I couldn’t do anything.
Those were the days………
Haha, it’s sitting in my closet actually- I can see it from here. I think I started stealing it after you bought your first Dell player; last time I remember using it was camping in Glacier.
…Curiousity got the best of me. I tracked down a AA and flipped it on. Here’s what was on it:
Mod Flanders Conspiracy (two songs)
Nightwish - Nemo
Modest Mouse - Dramamine, Float On
POD - Satellite, Youth of a Nation
Works great, though those are 128kb files and that’s all it’ll hold from what I remember. Anyway, I don’t understand my brief fascination with POD (I don’t dislike them, but, meh), but I still listen to everything on it.
Soilworker,
Do you have an MPMan? Which model? The F10 or F20? Would you be interested in selling it to me?
Thanks,
Gretchen