When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Portable music players may seem like something that belongs in the deepest vault of the audio ...

[Bram] wasn’t satisfied with the portable music playback devices that were currently available. He craved an offline music player that had a large storage capacity but found that this was only ...

Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007-2012 time frame, a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music.