Kanye isn’t the first artist to craft his own audio player. If you can remember back to 2014, there was a lot of hype for something called PonoPlayer – a device crafted by artist Neil Young that would be the Hi-Fi replacement for the waning Apple iPod.  Long story short, it failed.

Big time.

Ye’s STEM Player isn’t exactly a one-to-one facsimile of Neil Young’s player and it comes with a few neat features like STEM remixing that Pono did not.
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