MP3
At first, it was not the name of a machine, but a music encoding format. It was first invented by the Germans, and later it became the standard audio track format for MPGE-1. It was also the source of the sound used in VCD.
Later, MP3 became the default music format for computer music players.
It was just that until 1998, no one had ever thought of taking this music format alone and making a separate device to play music.
Then, this idea was intercepted by Boss Jia in advance.
Last year, when Daqian 2 was introduced, Daqian had already started to develop MP3 players. In April 1997, it was ready for mass production.
However, to generate more publicity, Boss Jia decided to release the MP3 players at the launch of Daqian 3. He wanted to use the popularity of the Daqian 3 to increase the sales of Daqian MP3 players.
The effect was obvious.
When the music player was introduced, everyone was shocked.
First of all, the music player was very small. It was about half the size of a poker card. It could be easily placed in any pocket, even a small jeans pocket.
Secondly, the appearance of the music player was very sci-fi. The silver streamlined design was like a silver lighter. It was very sci-fi.
Then, from Boss Jia's introduction, everyone learned that this Daqian MP3 player had a storage space of 200MB. Under the standard MP3 format, it could store about 150 minutes of music in the standard format, which was twice as much as a CD and three times as much as a tape.
Also, the MP3 player had an LCD screen. It could be operated like a mobile phone. It could also display the name of the song.
At the same time, the MP3 player also had a built-in battery. It could last for 8 hours after charging. However, the MP3 player did not have a speaker. If you wanted to listen to music, you could only rely on headphones.
This was not a big deal. After all, the sound quality of the speaker was incomparable to the sound quality of headphones. Almost all Walkman and CD player users used headphones.
The Daqian MP3 player came with a headphone from Sony. Although Daqian had the ability to produce headphones, the sound quality of the headphones produced was terrible.
After all, the sound quality of the headphones needed a lot of experience. It was not something that could be achieved in a short period of time. So, for the sake of quality, Daqian decided to buy a batch of Sony headphones.
The last and most important thing was that MP3 completely abandoned the so-called carrier. MP3 didn't need to insert any cassette or CD. It only needed a data cable to directly copy the MP3 format music file from the computer and put it into the MP3 for playback.
Of course, the MP3 player was not using Win95. If they wanted to copy the songs, they needed to install an extra driver. That was why the MP3 player came with a small drive....
Boss Jia's verbal introduction of these features had already shocked all the customers present.
Boss Jia did not lie. This MP3 player could break the 13 years of CD player technology gap. This was the latest portable music device. It would definitely break the market of CD player and Walkman.
Because it could be easily placed in the pocket, it was enough to defeat the other two competitors.
Although the feature of being able to be placed in the pocket did not sound very important, it was actually the biggest demand of all Walkman users.
Although both the Walkman and the Walkman CD could be hung directly on the waist, not everyone was willing to wear a belt when going out. Logically speaking, these two things were not light. After a long time, anyone's waist would not be able to bear it.
Lastly, and most importantly, it was the way to record the songs. After completely abandoning the carrier, the MP3 player had amazing extensibility. The equipment was also very cheap.
After all, if you casually bought a genuine tape or CD, it would cost more than 20 USD.
But if all of these were copied from the computer, then there would be no cost to the music itself.
Boss Jia had previously emphasized that customers must buy the electronic version of the music MP3 files released by various music companies. They were not allowed to download unauthorized pirated versions online.
Moreover, the Daqian would also set up a dedicated music website. Then, they would negotiate with the major music companies in the world and let them put these music products online for sale.
Finally, Boss Jia emphasized that all the downloading of pirated music was illegal and would be severely punished by the law. The Daqian would cooperate with the needs of all relevant parties to crack down on this kind of piracy!
These words sounded very nice and very serious. However, people with discerning eyes knew that the Daqian was just saying beautiful words. After all, if a user really wanted to download and use pirated music, unless they were courting death and publicized it everywhere, the police would not be able to investigate at all. This kind of thing basically depended on the user's self-awareness and self-quality.
Well, as for how high the user's quality was, it was a joke.
After all, even in the era of CDs and tapes, the major manufacturers in the world could not stop the proliferation of pirated CDs and tapes, let alone the MP3 in the era of the Internet.
In short, this MP3 was very awesome and very economical. The portable music market in the future was going to be chaotic.
The only thing that made the guests somewhat curious was the sound quality of the MP3. They did not know if this kind of music player could reach the level of CDs and Walkman.
Just when everyone was curious about this, Boss Jia suddenly snapped his fingers. Dozens of staff members came in from all directions of the venue. Each of them was dragging a tray in their hands. On the tray were dozens of exquisite boxes.
"This is a small gift from the Daqian Electronics to all of you dear friends. Our Daqian Daqian MP3 is about to be released. We have premade ten songs that we carefully selected in advance."
"These ten songs are all copyrighted. You can listen to them with ease and feel the effect of these songs!" Boss Jia said with a smile. These guests couldn't wait to take the box from the hands of the staff. Then, they carefully opened the packaging and took out the small and exquisite silver-white MP3 player from inside.
After taking a look at it, the guests realized that this MP3 player was really small. Not only was the size small, but the thickness was also very small. It was about the thickness of the middle finger. The feeling of being able to hold the whole MP3 player with one hand was really good!
On the front of the MP3 player, in addition to a small screen, there was a row of buttons. At the same time, there were three ports on the side. They were the earphone jack, the database, and the charging port.
Along with the box, there was a charger and two data cables to connect to the computer. One cable was USB, and the other was a traditional fixed port. It could meet the needs of two different old computers.
Finally, there was the earphone. Although the packaging was a bit simple, the Sony logo was very eye-catching.
In order to experience the sound quality of this MP3 player as soon as possible, the guests took out the manual and started to use it according to the manual.
The manual was very detailed. Not only was the various functions very comprehensive, but more importantly, it was divided into Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Japanese. These were the main languages that made it easy for most of the guests to read the manual.
Soon, after a few minutes, almost all of the guests had successfully inserted the earphones into their ears. Then, a scalp-numbing music started to play.
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