Music and Sound Company

Music and Sound Company (also known as MSC) is an American Multinational Conglomerate with headquarters in Sunnyvale-Silicon Valley. It’s known for being with Karlheinz Brandenburg the creators of the MP3 Format, and because of their incredible speakers and for being owners of the famous program DivX, they have also a Song Publisher called MSC Records. They have a long rivalry with RCA.

MP3 Players
When the MP3 Players era started in 1998 with the MPMan F15, MSC saw it as a opportunity because well, they invented the MP3 Format, and so in the 2000 started the building of the first MP3 Player by MSC, and in 2004 it was completed. And so the MSC DM-PF256 was born. The MP3 Player was well received and was compared decently versus the IPod, on 2006 it was revealed that a second MP3 player by MSC was in development since August 2005, at the very Christmas of 2007 the MSC DM-TS512 was launched, it had more good reviews than the last one and it was compared more decently versus the IPod, because it was one of the first MP3 Players to be Touch Screen and have MP4 and AVI support. after that MSC released updated versions of the two of them, until in fall of 2009 they released the third and last MP3 player by MSC, the MSC DM-RE256. This one received mixed reviews, because of how simple it was and that it only supported MP3 and WMA. After that MSC will never launch a MP3 player ever again. But will still receive support and being produced by MSC, that will end in 2012 when they ended producing the first MP3 Player by MSC and the updated versions of the same one, in 2015 they announced that the DM-TS513 and the two updates that it released will not be produced anymore, and finally in 2022 the last MP3 player by MSC will not be produced anymore marking the end of the MSC MP3 players.