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For starters, MP3 and MP4 players have a few things in common; they are similar devices. They are both digital media players and that being said it means that they are the kinds of device which can store, consequently organize and later playback media files. The biggest difference between MP3 and MP4 players is the kind of media files that they store. MP3 Players on the one hand support the storing and playing of audio files while MP4 Players are much more advanced in the way that they can store and playback all kinds of files which includes audio and video media files.

As mentioned before there are various similarities between the two kinds of Players as well; after all the MP4 Players are simply the more modern and improvised successors of the MP3 Players that were originally released as early as the early 1990’s. Hence, the major similarity between the two kinds of players is the way in which they function, that is how they store and organize the media files that are stored in the devices. Both the kinds of Media Players store the files by compressing the media files that are to be stored in these devices. Therefore in both the MP3 as well as the MP4 players, a large number of media files can be stored together on the same device.

Therefore that being the similarity, the difference between these two kinds of devices lies in the fact that the MP4 players are more advanced than the MP3 Players, therefore not just audio but one can have an MP4 Player that plays back both video and audio files and also one can view documents and text files if stored on the device. Although you might find that an MP3 player would also have a screen but do not be disillusioned as these screens are used to do no more than scroll through the list of audio tracks etc. So on an MP4 Player, the screen would also be pretty wide and would be clear enough for viewing photographs and video clips and even eBooks etc. However another thing you need to be careful about is that many of these MP4 players that are available for buying may not support the MP4 format of media files and so you need to be careful when you are buying the MP4 player and even if you buy one you need to make sure that you do not store any MP4 files on the player as those would be rendered useless.

All that being said, both these digital media players are useful where entertainment and storage is concerned and go ahead with one as per your needs.