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I wonder if I still have my Creative Nomad Jukebox somewhere... came out in 2000. Was the size and shape of a portable CD player so it fit in the same kind of cases. Took normal AA batteries. Had a 6 GB capacity, which was insane in 2000. I had a huge number of MP3s on it. Many radio dramas. I wish I still had them elsewhere.
Classmate of mine had a similar device, but blockyer. So many mp3's (Argos Jukebox)
I wanted mine to be pocketable, but i could not yet afford a real iPod. So i spent 150 euro on a 256 flash stick from MSI. 1 or 2 albums plus some spares.... Later I had an iPod and many headaches dealing with iTunes. The device was so great but iTunes already felt bloated to me back then.
The Jukebox predated the iPod by a couple of years. I didn't mind the size and I had a backpack with a built-in case for a CD player with a little portal for the headphone wire, so I could put it right in there while I was walking to class (I was in college at the time).
I also got a second gen iPod for free as part of a pyramid scheme that went totally wrong. You had to sign up for a service to get a code and if you got enough codes, you got a free iPod. But you could cancel the service right away. More importantly, the codes could be used by multiple people and the system would accept it due to whatever crappy coding they did. So people would share their codes and I was one of the people near the top of the pyramid that got enough codes to do it before they figured it out.
I also had the trendy mp3 player pre-iPod, the Diamond Rio.
Looking back on it, I have no idea why I had so many mp3 players.
Well, the players were often dirt cheap. I got at least four for free on trade shows. Including an Ultra-Rare "Sun Microsystems" MP3 player, handed over to me by the founder of Star-Office which later became Open Office and Libre Office. Back when Sun was not totally uncool.