~ DIGITAL AUDIO PLAYER~

The Digital Audio Player, more renowned like MP3, is an electronic device that can play digital audio files. It's a type of portable media player and the term MP3 comes from a format of the same name.

History

In 1981 Kane Kramer asked England a loan for the first digital audio player. In Englad was published in 1987 and in United States in 1987. The users was as big as a credit card and had a small LCD screen, navigation and volume buttons and would have held at least 8 MB of data in a solid state bubble memory chip with a capacity of 3.5 minutes worth of audio. Now, the MP3 have 4.8GB, which hold about 1200 song. 

Equipment

Generally speacking, MP3 players are portable and have headphones, alyhough people are increasingly hooking users up to their car and home stereos, sometimes via a wireless connection, there by turning them into portable 'jukeboxes'. Some MP3 players also iclude FM radio tuners.




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