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From eight-track tapes to the iconic iPod, these once-popular music formats shaped how we listened to music—until they disappeared.

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In 2006 — just a year before the iPhone appeared — a slightly-under-the-weather Steve Jobs introduced the $349 iPod Hi-Fi. Jobs opened his pitch praising Apple for making music mobile with the iPod, ...

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With the iPod Nano and its Shuffle entering the "obsolete" graveyard, the only other music player left in Apple's portfolio outside that league is the iPod Touch, which was officially discontinued ...

From eight-track tapes to the iconic iPod, these once-popular music formats shaped how we listened to music—until they disappeared. Here are the top five lost formats and how they changed the game.