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MP3 Player
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development
It was developed in the early 1990's by frauenhofer, but it was unsuccessful. source -
Advancement
Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products invented the AMP MP3 Playback Engine, which is the first successful MP3 player. source -
new
The second MP3 player needed was the Rio PMP300 from Diamond Multimedia, introduced in September 1998. -
newest
The first MP3 player was developed by SaeHan Information Systems in 1997. Nevertheless, the first one on the American market was the Eiger Labs F10, a 32MB portable that appeared in the summer of 1998. It was a very basic unit and wasn't user expandable, though owners could upgrade the memory to 64MB by sending the player back to Eiger Labs with a check for $69.00 + $7.95 shipping. -
bright beginning
At the end of 1999,a company called Remote Solutions significantly broke the barrier by utilizing a laptop drive for song storage rather than low capacity flash memory. -
Also
Also at the end of 1999 the first in-dash MP3 player appeared. The Empeg Car and Rio Car (renamed after it was acquired by SONICblue and added to its Rio line of MP3 products) offered players in several capacities ranging from 5GB to 28GB. The unit didn't catch on as SONICblue had hoped, though, and was discontinued in the fall of 2001.