Editing Portable media player (section)

=== Emergence of hard-drive-based players ===
In 1999 the first hard drive based DAP using a 2.5" laptop drive, the [[Personal Jukebox]] (PJB-100) designed by [[Compaq]] and released by [[Remote Solution|Hango Electronics Co]] with 4.8&nbsp;GB storage, which held about 1,200 songs, and pioneered what would be called the jukebox segment of digital music portables.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000818S0035|last=Yoshida|first=Junko|author2=Margaret Quan|title=OEMs ready to roll on jukeboxes for Net audio|page=1|publisher=[[EE Times]]|date=18 August 2000|access-date=5 December 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906131627/http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000818S0035|archive-date=6 September 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> This segment eventually became the dominant type of digital music player.

Also at the end of 1999 the first in-dash MP3 player appeared. The [[Empeg Car]]{{efn|Empeg Car was renamed Rio Car after it was acquired by [[SONICblue]] and added to its Rio line of MP3 products}} offered players in several capacities ranging from 5 to 28&nbsp;GB. The unit did not catch on and was discontinued in the fall of 2001.

[[File:Ipod backlight transparent.png|thumb|upright|The third generation [[iPod Classic|iPod]], which stores audio files on a miniature [[hard disk drive]].]]