What is an mp3 player?
what is an iPOD? An MP3 player (pronounced “emm pee three player”) is a generic term for what is really a modern day Walkman – i.e. a portable music player. The clever part is, instead of using tapes or CDs or minidiscs, it plays back music recorded in computer files, stored in some kind of computer memory (I don’t want to get too technical here, so stick with me, I’ll cover more of this later for those that are interested, but really you don’t need to know the detail if you don’t understand it.) Mp3 players have become popular because computer music files (or any computer file) are easy to share and copy and transfer from one computer to another; and you can store lots of them on some very physically small devices. In the early 90’s files would be shared by swapping “floppy disks”; now you can fit 50,000 (fifty thousand) times as much information on a device the same size. Pretty good progress! Now, I was flummoxed the other week when my significant other asked me “Why is it called an
