Failed portable music player

broloco
broloco Posts: 1,237
edited October 2014 in A Moving Train
Ok it's driving me crazy..what's the name of portable music player from early or mid 2000s that was basically an iPod with little discs or chips of whole albums that you could buy? It was like the minidisc but tiny! The discs were the size of a fingernail. I remember the music industry put out a bunch of albums (from what was hot to older ones like ac/dc back in black, etc. ). It failed within a year or so.
Anybody remember the name? Cant seem to find it!
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Remember the sony mini discs but that's it.
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Is it the Sansa slotMusic player? SanDisk made this player as a vehicle to sell albums in MP3 format on microSD cards for around $15 each. I never understood the model and am glad it didn't go anywhere. Why anyone would pay $15 for MP3s to begin with is beyond me, and larger blank SD cards were obviously much cheaper and more useful than the SD "albums." None of it made any sense to me. I found a link showing a Sgt. Pepper's album on the microSD card:
    http://inventorspot.com/articles/sandisk_announces_slotmusic_albums_microsd_cards_18042
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    Watch men in black. Remember when K said these things would replace CDs one day. He'd have to buy the white album again!
  • broloco
    broloco Posts: 1,237
    edited November 2014
    jeffbr said:

    Is it the Sansa slotMusic player? SanDisk made this player as a vehicle to sell albums in MP3 format on microSD cards for around $15 each. I never understood the model and am glad it didn't go anywhere. Why anyone would pay $15 for MP3s to begin with is beyond me, and larger blank SD cards were obviously much cheaper and more useful than the SD "albums." None of it made any sense to me. I found a link showing a Sgt. Pepper's album on the microSD card:
    http://inventorspot.com/articles/sandisk_announces_slotmusic_albums_microsd_cards_18042

    This is totally it! "Slot music"...Lol. thanks. Yeah when I was in bestbuy back in the day they had like a bunch of the albums for sale. Hendrix, Justin timberlake, Michael Jackson's thriller, No Code (j/k on that last one) And some of the players came with certain album-themed graphics. Like the whole player was the album cover. At one point I was going to pull the trigger on a beastie boys one or maybe it was the Hendrix one. Anyway the feeling at the time was too little too late.

    Fun to think about it retrospect though...
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