Any love for Minidisc?

[SuprHtr]

When I met my wife in 2006, she had a nice MD recorder that she used with a Mackie board and some good AudioTechnica microphones to record vocal concerts. One of the inputs was getting wonky and she got rid of it when the little Tascam digital recorders came out. There may be some recordings around here, but we no longer have anything on which to play them.

 

[Maguchi]

Yeah I remember those. I wish the format coulda, shoulda, woulda, caught on better and become more widespread. Sometimes new formats are squeezed out of the market by formats that are already established or that are promoted by better marketing and business savvy.

 

[sloppychops]

I still have a Minidisc player/recorder I bought new, and a Minidisc player I bought used for $5 somewhere. I thought this was a great format, and the battery life on the player/recorder was excellent. I haven't used them in years, but I did pull them out of hiding a month ago just to make sure I didn't leave any batteries in them to leak all over the insides. All good.
One thing I hate about the one I have is that the two-prong headphone jack is for some Minidisc proprietary headphones. You can't plug in earbuds.

 

[sadfield]

One thing I hate about the one I have is that the two-prong headphone jack is for some Minidisc proprietary headphones. You can't plug in earbuds.

Usually for a remote control that any headphones can plug into.

 

[sadfield]

I wish the format coulda, shoulda, woulda, caught on better and become more widespread.

I feel the mistake was trying competing with mp3 players, rather than pushing it's own strengths. If they'd pushed HD minidisc, having the sound quality of cd, with all tactile quality and romance of cassette, I think there would still be a place for it. Also a shame because the vast majority of players were really lovely high quality units.

 

[Wrighty]

Bring back the eight track cartridge. Neat, tidy design, faultless playback, never slipped or jammed………………………..

 

[sadfield]

Bring back the eight track cartridge. Neat, tidy design, faultless playback, never slipped or jammed………………………..

It appears it never went away. Dolly Parton released a Christmas 8 track in 2020, St. Vincent released Daddy's Home in 2021, and there's many independent label releases. There's 8 Track and Minidisc being released on bandcamp.

 

[Wrighty]

It appears it never went away. Dolly Parton released a Christmas 8 track in 2020, St. Vincent released Daddy's Home in 2021, and there's many independent label releases. There's 8 Track and Minidisc being released on bandcamp.

Wow, I never knew!

 

[Mike Eskimo]

There has been an attempted hipster revival of the cassette tape around here.

And the vast vast majority of the artists doing it were not around for the heyday of it.

‘85-‘95 roughly

Hisssssssssssss !