Your mom just bought a portable CD player

Placeholder Alt Text Taken from: Wired (Volume 7, Issue 12 (December 1999))

The RCA Lyra was an early solid state digital music player that supported RealAudio, MP3, and Wave audio files. Data storage was provided by removable type I and II Compact Flash cards and power by two AA batteries.

A version of the Lyra Website from 1999 can be found at the Internet Archive. The user manual for the RCA Lyra can be found here.