I had one on the very cusp of MP3s becoming mainstream. One of my first purchases when I had my own income.

It was a random Chinese “discman” with MP3 playback functionality and ID3 tag support. I also owned a CD burner.

It was pretty slick. It would only read the disc until the track was loaded to memory so coming from a cheap knockoff discman the anti skip was next level. I could actually run with this thing! I’d have to stop and let it load between tracks but no big deal.

It didn’t rock my world as hard as minidisc did, which I completely fell in love with but it was still pretty cool. I still struggle to believe that we no longer have physical media of any kind. I’m an album guy and it still feels kind of wrong.