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The MP3 player was once a fringe product for ‘technology geeks’ who love gadgets and ‘health fanatics’ who like to listen to something while they exercise. But as the capacity of these devices has grown and the size of these devices has shrunk, the modern MP3 player has moved into the mainstream of those who love music. You can now fit thousands of hours worth of music, perhaps every song you’ve ever enjoyed, onto a little device you can slip in your pocket and take with you everywhere. Portability and convenience are no longer issues for music lovers on the go.

The development of MP3 players can be traced back to the development of the MP3 sound compression technology. While other formats would have eventually made it into these devices, this format took the world by storm in the late 1990s when hard drive space was limited and people were looking for a good music compression scheme. This was important to the early development of the players because flash RAM was still relatively expensive. Nowadays most digital audio players have more flash RAM than the hard drives of the late 1990s when MP3s became so popular.

Capturing and playing music back can be traced back to Edison’s phonograph in 1877. In 1887, the use of zinc discs was added to the machine. In 1896, transmission of sound over the radio came to exist. Our grandparents lived in the times when Sony and Philips made various personal sound devices such as 8-tracks, cassettes, and compact disks. The MP3 format itself can actually be traced all the way back to a 1989 patent by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. But it would be a while before technology provided the media storage capacities for this file format to be useful to the average person.

Nowadays there are so many different competitors making portable players that you can get whatever type you desire. The main considerations are typically what features you want, how much memory you want, and how much you are willing to pay. CD players that play MP3s typically offer the least amount of storage space. The hard-drive models typically offer the most storage space, but this is changing quickly as flash memory technology advances. The flash memory players typically offer the lowest price and the fewest moving parts to go wrong.

As technology advances, players will have more and more features not related to playing music, or perhaps it could be better said that devices that you would not typically associate with music will also be able to function as MP3 players. Satellite radios, portable gaming systems, and cell phones that can play MP3s are three popular examples.

Bland lives in the headphone capitol of the world, Tokyo. He frequently visits headphone shops to try new releases and often picks up new sets to write about. For an introductory set of after-market headphones, he recommends ATH-FW3 button headphones from Audio Technica. If you already know about the quality of buying headphones to replace the stock buds supplied with your MP3 player, Bland thinks the ATH-SQ5 will provide you great sound and a comfortable fit.

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