Retro fridays and hit clips

If your not familar with hit clips, they were extremely popular around the late 90's to early 00's based off my memory. The player is a tiny little U shaped thing that played a small square stamp sized "album" I saw album because each little square only had about 1 song or 2 or 3 if you were lucky. It came out in a time when CD players still ruled and mp3 players were huge and bulky and expensive so it had some good timing when released. Think of a hit clip as an extremely limited non skip cd player and you got the right idea

I remember there was a commercial for mcdonalds where they were promoting a free hit clip song for $2 more with purchase of a combo meal. There was britney spears and 98 degrees and other popular pop artists. I never got a hit clip as I saw it as a rip off then a few years later I got a 20gb mp3 player. The ipod came out in 2001 so that doomed the hit clip and it was cheaper to buy an ipod and lots of songs. With that came the end to the hitclip