MP3 player

The iPods are very popular MP3 players.

An MP3 player is a portable audio player people can use to listen to songs saved in the MP3 format. They can use USB cords or Wi-Fi to connect the device to computers, so that computer files can be transferred to players internal memory.

MP3s are audio files that have been made smaller by removing sounds that the human ear cannot hear. Many newer MP3 players can also be used to view images or movies, or play games, and can also play other formats, such as FLAC and MPEG-4 AAC. The most well-known MP3 player is the iPod. MP3 players can also be built-into a car or home stereo.

They were popular around the early 2000s but slowly lost popularity to the introduction to smartphones and apps like Spotify. Even with this loss in popularity, you can still get one today that can even connect to Spotify.

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MP3 Player Media

A flash-based player (Creative MuVo)
An embedded hard drive-based player (Creative ZEN Vision:M)
An MP3 CD player (Philips Expanium)
A Sansa Clip player with a clip to attach on a person's clothing
An iPod Shuffle DAP, featuring no display screen
Connecting a computer to a Sansa Clip DAP to transfer content by "syncing"
An early DAP (NETrax, from 1999) in its dedicated docking station for charging and connecting to a PC
Sony Walkman NW-A1000, one of the earliest Walkman players that played MP3 alongside the proprietary ATRAC format
An iRiver iFP-190 player, with a built-in microphone for voice recording
Interior of a small unbranded flash-based DAP
Rio PMP300, one of the earliest marketed DAPs, which plays music in the MP3 format.
The Archos Jukebox 6000 released late 2001 was a DAP with a hard disk, one of the earliest of its kind.
An "MP4 player" from Newsmy, a major PMP manufacturer in China