Comment by colechristensen
2 days ago
>there are millions of people who went straight from CDs to streaming, without hitting the iPod era
Who?
There was about a decade there where everyone who had the slightest interest in music had an mp3 player of some kind, at least in the 15-30 age bracket.
I imagine this depends a LOT on your specific age and what you were doing in the 00's when MP3 player usage peaked.
I finished high school in 2001 and didn't immediately go to college, so I just didn't have a need for a personal music player anymore. I was nearly always at home or at work, and I drove a car that actually had an MP3 CD player. I felt no need to get an iPod.
In 2009, I started going to college, but then also got my first smartphone, the Motorola Droid, which acted as my portable MP3 player for when I was studying in the library or taking mass transit.
If you were going to school or taking mass transit in the middle of the '00s, then you were probably more likely to have a dedicated MP3 player.
I don't know if I count, but I never owned a dedicated MP3 player[1], I listened to MP3s on my computer, but used CDs and cassettes while on the move, until I got an android phone that had enough storage to put my music collection on.
1: Well my car would play MP3s burned to CDs in its CD player; not sure if that counts.
My father, for one. He was entirely happy with radio in the car and CDs at home.
I skipped 2 generations for portable music : went straight from cassette to smartphone with MP3 (and radio).