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Media players have been on the market since 1970s. They are available in many forms. Nowadays, technology has given some great inventions of media players like MP3s to iPods. Everything has changed when it comes to media players. From design to portability everything is available in today's players. These players are very common these days. Now portable digital players are much in demand.
In the year 1979, the digital audio players were designed by Kane Kramer and he named it as IXI. The capacity of this device was nearly 3.5 minutes of audio playing, but it was failed to get the commercial success as there was no market available to buy it. The first technology launched for making MP3 players actually came into existence in 1980's; it was developed by the German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft. In the year 1987 German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft teamed up with Fraunhofer Institute Integrierte Shaltungen research center, for conducting a research and find ways to transmit audio broadcasting through phone lines. The birth of MP3 technology was an accidental product of this research.
Later on, this technology will become the most preferred layout for personal media players. Lastly, some companies come up with their own MP3 players in the year 1998, Compaq and Diamond Multimedia together developed such these players. These were much to expensive, due to this no one would even think of buying them, so these devices were not very popular at that time.
The first hard drive based DAP was made available for commercial use; it was produced by the Compaq company. It had a capacity of 4.8 GB and was able to contain 1200 songs in that device. After this device, apple Inc company made an entry with the launch of first generation iPod which had a capacity of 5 GB hard drive based DAP. After this they become the DAP market leaders.
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