WTD: Minidiscs

Blank, recorded, prerecorded, old or new, all considered

I have a some….was Trying to find my mini disc player the other day without success

I’ve got spare blanks I have little need for

Sold all mine on Discogs years ago….made my money back and some

Excellent thanks @markairsy1 let me know what you’ve got and how much you’d want for them

I found some and an old player will pm you

Appreciated

Love this. Such a brilliant format.
What are you doing with them?

If you can get the contents off onto something else I've got one I can send you?

It's a reasonable question, at the moment not a lot until I get my player/recorder (expected this month). It has dawned on me that streaming isn't for me, it never feels like for £10 a month I'm consuming on Spotify the quality or quantity of music that it costs. There's something about a physical format that really appeals; the aesthetic, creating mixtapes, doing the artwork, going out with music without my phone. Am viewing this much more as a hobby than anything practical.

@EB cheers, do you mean you'd like to get the content off before parting with the disc?

Cool.
I just got rid of Spotify myself this month. I'm using Mixcloud and NTS now and so far not missing it.

Hi. I don't have a player, so if you do and you can get what's on the MD off and shared with me, you can have the MD.

Hey if @zazkar doesn’t want the mini disc player I’d be interested. Thanks

This is great
@dangeek not heard of mixcloud before, will check it out
@EB I'll take it, shall we DM details?
@Jeromeo please offer player to @cornelius_blackfoot, it's not for me

Listening to my old player as we speak , bit of tom waits taking me back. Such a cool format , 80 min discs but you could record them at lp4 and get 240 mins . Crazy and sound great. Had an md player in my car back in the day.

80 min discs but you could record them at lp4 and get 240 mins

Didn't know this!

Yeah, minidisc uses some kind of ATAC (I just googled it "ATRAC") compression that you can tweak.

I still have some in Oz but nothing to play them with. If I remember I'll bring them over.

324min
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATRAC

I used to love ripping my LPs onto MD.

i relly bought into MD - had a portable, a full sized component - now i only have one of these left https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/bookshelf/dhc-md373

LP4 was a game changer. We had various mad different connectors from the pc to minidisc player to put Napster and lime wire mp3s onto discs. Eventually settling on an optical output with a ridiculously fragile fibre optic cable, but I meant that you could record at 4x normal speed, which obviously helps when putting together 5 hour compilations !

My eldest (13yrs) now has my old Sony minidisc walkman
She loves recording stuff off youtube
Got a cheapo mp3 player for my youngest (10) for xmas

it's all coming back!!

Minidisc is still my favourite digital format, and I still have and use both my recorders. I have a tonne of discs, but I would happily accept more.😁

Loving the MD appreciation

Same.

I've spent half my life arguing with the naysayers. Absolutely amazing format. Especially when you think it wasn't until 2003 that the ipod went >20GB.

I still have a separates deck. Which I'm praying will still work when I finally have the space for a hifi again.