Use this thread to take us through your history of music playing devices.
If memory serves, mine is something like this:
Basic Sony Walkman
Upgraded to a better Aiwa (I think model) in the mid 90s
Then got a discman the very next year
And some years later upgraded that to this
Had a brief dalliance with minidiscs
Before coming around to MP3s
Since then I’ve been listening mostly to music on my phones.
Your turn.
Cheap tape player for years, and then this thing of absolute joy:
Then various iPods.
Still miss my iRiver
Then one of these (it was awesome and I got a load of stick for it because ‘my parents didn’t love me enough to buy me an iPod’ but I didn’t care)
Sony Walkman
Sony Discman
Sony Minidisc player
IRiver H340 MP3 player
iPod Classic 160gb
Various cheap Chinese MP3 players that take a micro SD card (currently on a “Supereye”).
Only really use my phone for streaming. I prefer a separate device for music.
Can remember my very first walkman, how it looked, blue with yellow paint splat design. But can I remember the brand or find it online, no. Sorry.
Then got one of these badboys:
Then had this. But it wasn’t mine it was my dad’s he never used it. It became unusable as the little plastic rotator in the middle broke so it wouldn’t hold CD’s in place properly. Unless it was sitting pan flat on a table so was useless for carrying around, it would just skip all over the place. Actually tried to fix it with blu tack
Then iPod Gen 3
iPod Gen5 Classic:
Now the old Samsung Galaxy S10 for streaming.
iPod mini (4GB, baby blue)
iPod touch (8GB)
iPod touch (32GB) acquired after my dad put a screwdriver through screen of the aforementioned device trying to fix some dead pixels
Had a few walkmans (walkmen?) before this lad
Then this but in blue
Then won this in a Q competition
Followed by a tiny 256mb MP3 player my then-gf’s parents got me for christmas off BidUpTV.
Then 1st gen ipod touch which I fucking loved deeply and had 1000s of songs on then died one day. JUst use my phone now.
Think all the ones I had have been mentioned apart from this
Should never have got rid of it.
Ooh I used a psp as my music player after the minidisc. Big pockets.
this was my first (and only) mp3 player. absolutely loved it.
just looking it up now apparently it was only on the market for 6 months!
I can’t find the exact images, but it was something like this:
Then an upgrade to one with a microphone and record function (can’t find a photo of this)
Then a really swish Sony one
Then when my stereo CD player started playing up, I got (and still have, in the loft) one of these:
Then I got my first mp3 player, a Sony NWE-103 (the 256MB version):
And then, finally, in 2007, a first gen iPod Touch, in a box with Macy Gray on the front:
Shit, this could take a while…
Nah, it’s taking far too long to browse through the Argos catalogues of the 80s & 90s
The best ‘Walkman’ I ever had though was a Sanyo Espera ES-P7 which I guess I bought in 1993
Which lasted all the way up until I got a Sony MZR30 in 1998
And after I dropped that and ran over it when I came off my bike I replaced it with the MZR37 in 2000
I still have this one
I loved the minidisc format so much that I tried to resist the mp3 revolution all the way up until I got one of these in 2007
…which was frankly shite as either a phone or a walkman so I bought a 2nd gen iPod touch when they came out the following year
Which I LOVED …but I lost it after about a year or so, no idea where
So I bought an iPhone 3GS in 2009
& I’ve been iPhone ever since, now on a 13 pro max
Fascinating
Shame I couldn’t find all the radio cassettes/walkmen & boomboxes I had pre 93 though
Definitely had one of these classics, I think it was inherited from my older cousin
Went through a bunch of personal CD players cos I used to mangle them quite regularly. Best was one I managed to break so that CDs would play without the lid being closed 
First MP3 player I had was one of these, a 20gb Sony one I got (totally unexpectedly) as a Christmas gift. It was great, not least cos it freed me from having to pick a bunch of CDs to talk to work each day to listen to.
That got busted in my bag at an NME gig (Maximo Park, Blood Red Shoes, others???) so I replaced it with a Creative Zen.
It was huge and the battery life was trash, but - 60gb baby!!!’ That got busted when I accidentally threw it across a nightbus.
After that I just bought iPods. I got an 80gb, then bought a 160gb when that got full. Killed the 160gb and replaced it not long before they discontinued them. Still got both floating around somewhere.
I think I finally got a useful phone (iPhone 4) around 2014/5? and have been on the streaming services train ever since.
First was an iPod Mini, 4GB, blue. I think the first thing I ever saved up for, researched and bought from myself (off eBay, second hand but in v good condition). Loved that thing, had the little iPod sock for it and everything.
Got a 2nd gen iPod shuffle (2GB I think, and also blue) when the mini starting losing its powers, still quite like that form factor of the whole thing essentially just being a clip. Easy to attach to trousers, coats etc.
Then an iPod Touch. Funny to me now that I would go around with both this and a phone at the same time, back when my phone couldn’t do music or go on the internet. This one is still alive, because I have a DAB radio with a iPod connection, which the Touch just stands in all the time so the battery never runs down. I stopped using iTunes years and years ago, so the music on there can never be extracted or changed.
Then just music on phones mostly, although I do also have a little cheapo MP3 player with SD card capability, which is pretty brilliant for the £20 or so it cost. Incredibly, it also has ebook reader functionality, despite the screen being about the size of a thumbnail. Shout out to ‘AGPTEK’ 
I also have many portable tape players, but those are for making / mangling music / sound rather than for listening, so that’s a different story in my mind.
Proline walkman (dead)
Bush walkman (dead)
Goodmans portable cd player (still got somewhere)
ipod mini (lost)
ipod classic (still got, battery life is terrible)
various phones/streaming
I remember buying a second hand MP3 player from a CEX or similar. Was cheap and sold as 2gb. Got it home, was actually 256mb so returned for refund. Big fail on their part, big success for the fraudster they took it from.
Those small solid state ones that only held about 50 songs were great fun. Used to listen to mine all the time on the bus when I was mashed age 17ish.
That first Sanyo walkman is beautiful, what a wonderful design. Not seen one of those before.
Yeah, it was great, barely bigger than an actual cassette and the very first portable music device that had all the controls on a ‘remote’ that you plugged your headphones into. Sounded amazing too
I can’t remember all the devices I’ve had but I do know that my first “Walkman” was a WH Smiths own-brand one. Don’t think you can get much cheaper than that!
