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Erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format
- MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.
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MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November [2] of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, North America, and other countries. [3]
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Sony came up with the MiniDisc after the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format failed to take off with consumers. The company went head-to-head with Philips' Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and won the initial battle (the DCC was discontinued in 1996). MiniDisc was first conceived in the mid-1980s but wasn't commercially available until a decade later. It...
The majority of the MinDisc devices sold were portable recorders. These fused the playback abilities of a standard portable CD or cassette player, with additional line-in, USB, and optical recording options. Many of them also had in-line LCD remotes, docking stations, and expandable battery packs. Outside Japan, MiniDisc players (which offered no r...
The Web MiniDisc projectmakes it possible to use Sony NetMD players on modern Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. However, this support doesn't include Hi-MD devices or those manufactured by companies like JVC and Panasonic. Fortunately, NetMD players were sold at the height of the format's popularity, so you can find one secondhand pretty easily. Whe...
If you want to use MiniDisc in 2020 and beyond, you should make sure you at least have a Sony NetMD player to make transferring music fast and easy. You can buy one secondhand or score an even better deal by getting one from Japan. Japanese auction sites, like Yahoo! Japan (the country's largest online auction site), Rakuten, Amazon JP, and Mercari...
If you find yourself interested in MiniDisc, check out the r/MiniDisccommunity on Reddit. Some artists still release music on MiniDisc. Many vaporwave artists, in particular, have embraced MiniDiscsince that genre meshes perfectly with the rose-tinted nostalgia that draws so many to the format. Got a soft spot for antique audio formats? After you o...
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Aug 7, 2024 · The advice now is as it was at MiniDisc's height: buy CDs, rip them to MD. As a portable music format, MD is an obvious winner due to its size, ubiquitous rewriteability, battery life, and skip protection.
Aug 3, 2024 · MiniDisc is a unique and fascinating physical media format that is often misunderstood. This FAQ aims to address most questions about why people did, and still do, enjoy using MD.
A recordable MiniDisc is a magneto-optical device capable of storing 140 megabytes of information. Music can be scattered all over the disk and the player can "put it together" correctly when playing the disk.
The MiniDisc Getting Started Guide. This guide is our compilation of the best information and advice we can offer for anyone entering the MiniDisc hobby. MiniDisc is a retro-futuristic media format with near-CD audio quality. It was on the market from 1992-2013 and was most popular in Japan.
Disk Topics. What are the dimensions of a MD? What is the storage capacity of MDs, CDs, DATs, DCCs? What is the minimum allocation unit when recording on an MD? What is the MD disc space allocation algorithm? Why is MD capacity always the same (74:59 exactly) regardless of how much redundancy there is in the recorded music?
