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{{Short description|Hard disk digital audio player}}
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The '''Personal Jukebox''' (also known as ''PJB-100'' or ''Music Compressor'') was the first consumer [[hard drive]]-based [[digital audio player]]. Introduced in 1999,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMsvEAAAQBAJ |title=EBOOK: Exploring Innovation |date=16 March 2015 |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill Education]] |isbn=9780077158408 |pages=156 |quote="Over the course of a year Birrell's team solved the problems of energy man- agement, navigation, file transfer and integration with a PC, and the PLB-100 went on the market almost two years before the iPod, in November 1999."}}</ref> it preceded the [[Apple Computer|Apple]] [[iPod]], [[SanDisk Sansa]], and other similar players. It was designed and developed by [[Compaq]] Research ([[DEC Systems Research Center|SRC]] and PAAD groups) starting in May 1998. Compaq did not release the player themselves, but licensed the design to [[Remote Solution|HanGo Electronics Co., Ltd.]] of [[South Korea]].

Compaq Research published a [[software development kit]] for the unit, which enabled users to develop tools, drivers and applications for different operating systems.
[[File:HanGo PJB100 Personal Jukebox.jpg|thumb|Personal Jukebox]]