on which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn’t have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and tryingRe-wind to day’s gone by…

The early portable music players existed in Tape format, a rectangular device that was chunky (at least the size of a tape) and although did the job of playing music on the move, had many, when compared to today’s technology, annoying features. Number 1: in order to play all your favourite music, you had to transport an array of cassette tapes around with you, usually in a very stylish, plastic tape box. Number 2: Let’s say you put your tape in your walkman and fancy listening to track 4 on the album, this would mean either fast-forwarding or re-winding, depending on which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn’t have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and trying

tape) and although did the job of playing music on the move, had many, when compared to today’s technology, annoying features. Number 1: in order to play all your favourite music, you had to transport an array of cassette tapes around with you, usually in a very stylish, plastic tape box. Number 2: Let’s say you put your tape in your walkman and fancy listening to track 4 on the album, this would mean either fast-forwarding or re-winding, depending on which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn’t have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and tryingay all your favourite music, you had to transport an array of cassette tapes around with you, usually in a very stylish, plastic tape box. Number 2: Let’s say you put your tape in your walkman and fancy listening to track 4 on the album, this would mean either fast-forwarding or re-winding, depending on which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn’t have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and tryingt’s say you put your tape in your walkman and fancy listening to track 4 on the album, this would mean either fast-forwarding or re-winding, depending on which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn’t have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and tryingon which side you listened to last, all the way to song you wanted. This wouldn’t have been so bad except you had to keep stopping the tape and trying to guess how far along you’d gone and how much longer you needed to search for.

Fast Forward to the Era of CD’s and Mini Disc’s
Before the days of Mobile Phones, there were devices called CD’s and Mini Disks (they weren’t around very long) which took away the need to fast-forward and re-wind, as with a simple press of the skip button you could select any track you wanted to hear. However, you still needed to cart your music collection around with you, all be it a slightly smaller carry case, it still wasn’t practical to put in you pocket and you still had to change the disk when you h