Digital audio player facts for kids
The digital audio player is a cool gadget that lets you listen to digital music. Think of it like a portable music box! These devices can play different kinds of music files, like those from a CD or popular MP3 songs. Many of them are small enough to carry around and run on batteries, so you can take your tunes anywhere.
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What is a Digital Audio Player?
A digital audio player, or DAP, is a device made to play music that's stored as digital files. Instead of old-fashioned records or tapes, these players use computer files. This means your music is stored as data, just like pictures or documents on a computer.
How Do Digital Audio Players Work?
These players have special chips inside that can read digital music files. They turn these digital signals into sounds you can hear through headphones or speakers. Many players store music on a small memory chip, like a flash drive. Others use tiny hard drives to hold thousands of songs.
Different Kinds of Music Players
Over the years, many types of digital audio players have become popular. Each kind has its own way of storing and playing music.
MP3 Players
MP3 players are one of the most famous types of DAPs. The "MP3" part refers to a common way of compressing music files. This makes the files smaller, so you can fit more songs on your player. MP3 players are usually very portable and easy to use. They became super popular because they let people carry their entire music collection in their pocket.
Portable CD Players
Before MP3 players, portable CD players were a big deal. These devices played music directly from CDs. While they were portable, they were bigger than MP3 players. You also had to carry around your CDs, which could be a lot of hassle.
Other Types of Players
Many other devices can also act as digital audio players. Some smartphones and even portable gaming consoles can play music files. There are also special players, like the iPod, which became very well-known for storing music on a small hard drive. Newer players sometimes focus on playing very high-quality audio files for music lovers.
Images for kids
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A flash-based player (Creative MuVo)
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An MP3 CD player (Philips Expanium)
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Rio PMP300, one of the earliest marketed DAPs, plays music in the MP3 format
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The third generation iPod stores audio files on a miniature hard disk drive.
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The Archos Jukebox 6000 released late 2001 was a DAP with a hard disk, one of the earliest of its kind
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A recent player, Sony Walkman NW-A35, focusing on audiophilic capabilities such as the ability to play Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
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Sony Walkman NW-A1000, one of the earliest Walkman players that played MP3 alongside the proprietary ATRAC format
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Toshiba Gigabeat running Portable Media Center, allowing video playback
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An iRiver iFP-190 player, with a built-in microphone for voice recording
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Rockbox, a popular free and open source firmware for various PMPs
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Interior of a small unbranded flash-based DAP
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The Iriver SPINN portable media player features Samsung storage and a Telechips processor. It also features both touchscreen and a clickwheel mechanism for navigation. The SPINN implements haptic feedback by vibrating with user input. Additional hardware capabilities enable it to decode the MPEG-4 Part 2 format and play back audio using SRS WOW.
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An "MP4 player" from Newsmy, a major PMP manufacturer in China
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A Sansa Clip player with a clip to attach on a person's clothing
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An iPod Shuffle DAP, featuring no display screen
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Connecting a computer to a Sansa Clip DAP to transfer content by "syncing"
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An early DAP (NETrax, from 1999) in its dedicated docking station for charging and connecting to a PC
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