Philips GoGear

The digital audio players in the series were primarily designed to compete against the Apple iPod.

The GoGear brand was introduced in 2004, although Philips had been making digital audio players for several years prior.

[1] Like the Philips ShoqBox, the GoGear HDD0xx series of audio players are USB mass storage class devices and therefore support driverless file transfer on most systems; however, files transferred via this method will not be available for playback as they must also be added to a SQLite database.

This is done automatically by a modified version of Musicmatch Jukebox included with the player, but alternative software has been developed to update the database.

The GoGear ViBE, however, does not need any external device synchronization: no specific software is needed, and adding music files to it is as easy as putting the files in the right directory in a USB mass storage device.