| Dedicated devices for music are pretty much a thing of the past, but when I was young everyone had one (or at least it seemed like it). The very first one I had was an iPod Nano (3rd Gen) when I was in my first year of middle school. To be honest, I kinda fell into the mindset that everything was crap unless it was an iPod. A lot of my friends had them, and owning a generic MP3 player was basically a good way to publicly announce you weren’t one of the cool kids. But what about you, what was the first portable device you used to listen to music? |
| Dad's car radio. Then there was the boombox. |
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| It probably was a portable cassette dictation machine. My mother had many that she'd secretly record conversations with during meetings with doctors and MPs, so I probably borrowed one that I found lying around to listen to some cassettes to😅 Not the exact one, but something like this. I remember I had a Dinosaur songs cassette that I'd play over and over again on it. |
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| Ig technically my mom's old Samsung Galaxy S3 from like 2012, though the only songs I was probably playing at that age were nursery rhymes and caramelldansen for like 10 hours straight lmao. My family never owned a dedicated (portable) device for music but what we did own was this MASSIVE 90s panasonic cd/cassette player with a 5 cd changer with these absolutely gigantic speakers in the living room, bc I never learned to read and write at that time I used to memorize which cds I liked in my parent's collection by colour. So let's say I wanted to listen my mom's dance mix with pitbull and cascada and stuff I'd put in the cd with the red case, if I wanted to play my dad's eric clapton cds I'd put the one with the grey case and the guy with glasses on the cover. |
| CD player,still have it btw :D,after that was a Sony Walkman and that kinda made me a Sony fanboy when it came to sound,first phone was also a Sony Erricson,then when smartphones came around we were never even middle class so I was using a ZTE Blade III,which when someone called would shutdown and it's battery would last 2 hrs at most...eh,around 2017 finally bought a Sony Xperia XZ and man I know I am going off topic but that was smth else,lasted me till last year when sadly the battery decided to commit seppuku,using a Xperia 10 V currently not terrible for a budget phone,as for headphones Sony's wireless ones have been my go-to ever since 2022 |
| Can I Still Go To Heaven If I Kill Myself? |
| I see some individuals mentioning car radios, so I guess if those count then that was most likely mine as well. Other than that it was probably via my cheap third party Walkman I used to carry back as a kid. XD I later got a portable radio style boombox that I used to record songs off of various radio stations with. I remember being blown away at the time that I could even do something like that. |
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman |
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| Some cheap generic MP3 player, but in like 2008 I got the iPod Nano (4th gen) which was my device for the rest of my high school life. I definitely appreciated the big screen because usually it was just one line to read the name of the song. Also played a lot of Solitaire on bus rides. |
| I had an iPod Shuffle that I used for a little bit in 2011. |
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| If we only count devices that don't have to be plugged in on the outlets, then some red Sony Walkman. Though I barely remember about it, I have more memories about portable CD players and MP3 players that I've used afterwards. They're still lying around somewhere in the house |
| A random CD player my dad got at a yard sale lol. I was always a generation or two behind when it came to the latest gadgets. |
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| A transistor AM radio |
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I had an iPod Shuffle that I used for a little bit in 2011.
| @MeanMrMusician I was never able to get into those. I guess I just like to be able to choose the music I want to play when I'm in the mood. Still they were a lot cheaper back then I remember. |
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| This little blue radio I got back in the late 90s. I did get a CD player in the early 2000s then though, and around 2005 I got my first mp3 player and once I figured out how to connect it to my computer and download from Limewire, it was heaven for me. |
It looked somewhat like this. (Not sure if it looked exactly like that, but I remember it was a portable cassette player and it was red.) It was back in the nineties. Yes, I'm old. (´。＿。｀) |
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| 3rd gen iPod Touch, which I got in 2013 |
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows. |
I had one of these, and a discman in my younger years |
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| I think I got my first portable tape player back in 1991. I remember jamming Michael Jackson's Dangerous on tape all the time on it. |
| my first and only is my sansa after 17 years it still works 100% had to replace the supercapacitor and the battery a few times but it's still kickin'  |
| The first one was on my father's Sony walkman, one in which we put the casette... the first one that my father bought for me in high school was a Sony Mp3 ipod.. that black one :D |
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