• @FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      Well, if by ‘similar priced’ you mean: a very cheap player, it might make sense.

      But in 2004, I carried an iPod 4G which had either 20 or 40 gigabytes of storage. You’d need a backpack full of MD’s to match that, even if you put lower quality songs on there. I had my iPod filled with everything from podcasts, audiobooks, complete albums and enough random music to never hear the same song in a month. Absolutely loved that iPod!

        • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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          11 month ago

          MD always felt like a ripoff to me because you had to buy a bunch of overpriced disks from the sole supplier and then carry them all around in a little wallet.

          As soon as the first hard drive MP3 players like the Rio came out, MD was a dead end.