Some players also include FM radio tuners, voice recording and other features. Generally speaking, they are portable, employing internal or replaceable batteries, equipped with a 3.5 mm headphone jack which users can plug headphones into or connect to a boombox or shelf stereo system, or may be connected to car and home stereos via a wireless connection such as Bluetooth. The PMP term was introduced later for devices that had additional capabilities such as video playback. In contrast, analogue portable audio players play music from non-digital media that use analogue signal storage, such as cassette tapes or vinyl records.ĭigital audio players are often marketed and sold as 'MP3 players', even if they also support other file formats and media types. The data is typically stored on a compact disc (CD), Digital Video Disc ( DVD), Blu-ray Disc (BD), flash memory, microdrive, or hard drive most earlier PMPs used physical media, but modern players mostly use flash memory. From left to right: Sony's Walkman A810, and Apple's iPod Nano (5th generation) - two flash memory type PMPs from the late 2000s.Ī portable media player ( PMP) or digital audio player ( DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.
