The iPod Classic is a discontinued portable media player created and formerly marketed by Apple Inc.
iPod (1st gen), 2001
iPod (3rd gen), 2003
iPod (5th gen), 2005
iPod classic (6th gen) (left) & iPod (5th gen) (right): showing the updated view feature
A 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. The data is typically stored on a compact disc (CD), Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), Blu-ray Disc (BD), flash memory, microdrive, SD cards or hard drive; most earlier PMPs used physical media, but modern players mostly use flash memory. In contrast, analogue portable audio players play music from non-digital media that use analogue media, such as cassette tapes or vinyl records.
Two flash memory type pocket-size PMPs: Sony's Walkman A810 and Apple's iPod Nano (late 2000s)
A larger sized, hard disk memory type PMP: the Archos 605 (2000s)
A small DAP: the SanDisk Clip Jam (2010s)
A flash-based player (Creative MuVo)