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I just think they're neat

i fucking loooooove these things. i miss the way sony used to build their audio stuff... chunky tape players and translucent plastic have my heart forever

I had a mini CD-RW as a kid, which wasn't the same, but it's the closest I could get to the greatness of the MD in Serbia.

i know sony used to get a lot of shit for seemingly constantly coming up with proprietary formats for no reason but i think they're allowed this one in my imo. my MZ-N1 got so much use it was unbelievable and i very much miss having a remote you could clip onto the inside of your coat or whatever

i know i can get the same functionality with my phone and watch these days but like. i didn't have to look at the remote to flip through tracks or adjust volume or whatever lol

I had like a good year and change with my MD player before I got an iPod and it was a real slick piece of machinery



One of these bad boys to be specific. Couldn't tell you for the life of me WHAT I listened on it but I remember the experience was really cool.

Moot wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 11:24 am i know i can get the same functionality with my phone and watch these days but like. i didn't have to look at the remote to flip through tracks or adjust volume or whatever lol

media players peaked around the ipod era. being able to control your music without taking your device out of your pocket was top tier UX and it's been downhill since there

I miss discs, dude!!! Nothing will ever match the feeling of getting to carry around tiny literal tablets of knowledge... mo matter how much time passes I will never stop pining for the tactile sensation of being able to physically handle your data

I missed out on minisdics as they hust weren't as big a thing US-wards, but really I think I'd have loved them, the big issues I had with my cd player with cd-r compatibility is I could only write them once. If I could have rewritten the same disc many times to update my mixes I probably would have never bothered working at Target to get that Ipod nano discount.

My secret shame is that I've never actually owned any minidiscs, I just like them aesthetically

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 2:26 am My secret shame is that I've never actually owned any minidiscs, I just like them aesthetically

You can always get art of your sona holding minidiscs.

you're right I should do that one day

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:29 am you're right I should do that one day

Damn, you got me. (Good art.)

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:29 am you're right I should do that one day

i still REALLY love this art, galu, holy crud

RueAzure wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:18 pm i still REALLY love this art, galu, holy crud

I LOVE the way haru draws me, look at the sparkles aaaa

Galuade wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:55 pm

RueAzure wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:18 pm i still REALLY love this art, galu, holy crud

I LOVE the way haru draws me, look at the sparkles aaaa

I'M LOOKING

I have one which I was given at a kind of pawn-shop-like store. They're so cool in person. I have never been able to hear one though. I'm curious to know what the sound quality is like. Is it as "infinitely crisp" as a CD or does it have some special character? I would love to get a player and a few MDs someday to get the real experience tm

lopodyr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:19 pm I have one which I was given at a kind of pawn-shop-like store. They're so cool in person. I have never been able to hear one though. I'm curious to know what the sound quality is like. Is it as "infinitely crisp" as a CD or does it have some special character? I would love to get a player and a few MDs someday to get the real experience tm

I would imagine that they're functionally identical to a CD but I really don't know

i love minidiscs! never used them during their heyday but a few years ago i imported an mz-n910 and a bunch of spare minidiscs from yahoo auctions.

lopodyr wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:19 pm I have one which I was given at a kind of pawn-shop-like store. They're so cool in person. I have never been able to hear one though. I'm curious to know what the sound quality is like. Is it as "infinitely crisp" as a CD or does it have some special character? I would love to get a player and a few MDs someday to get the real experience tm

Minidisc uses ATRAC compression, even on prerecorded discs, so the sound quality isn't quite lossless CD quality, but it's pretty good (and digital so it doesn't degrade with play or anything like that)

Later recorders used newer versions of ATRAC which are supposed to sound better (and are backwards compatible)

Shoutout to the minidisc label that made like 6 albums on MDs back in the day lol