Before streaming, we listened to music on our Macs from CDs and low-quality MP3s found in shady corners of the Internet. This episode, Ed and Brian tell the Audion story, declare themselves children of the filesystem generation, and struggle to pronounce the word "earbuds".

Links for this episode:

• followup
  • Apple ID password reset
  • Connected 1 on the history of the iPod
  • aborted home folder on iPod feature
• pre-iPod music players
  • Brian's CD player: Panasonic SL-S360
  • Brian's wall of CD covers
  • jukebox
  • behind-the-neck headphones
  • AppleCD Audio Player
  • Ed's Sharp 722 MiniDisc player
  • MP3 CD
  • Diamond Rio