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by bambax 3819 days ago
That's amazing. I have one that works absolutely flawlessly; I still need to transfer what I have on those disks before I try to sell it, but then...

Why would people pay that kind of money for this?? Do they need it to play their old disks? Wouldn't it be cheaper to have them transferred to another media by a lab?
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72deluxe 3819 days ago
My brother has a bunch of MiniDisc players and recorders. I do not understand why. He refuses to get an MP3 player or use his phone but will instead record audio in REALTIME from CDs etc. to MiniDisc. He says the battery life is really good. The psychoacoustic modelling on the audio is not, however!!

He even bought a multitrack minidisc desk. Apparently it was going cheap. I understand why - with 4 tracks of audio, it'll record 15 minutes. No good for long jams.

I do not understand the fascination with it at all. Even an old Tascam portastudio or the modern equivalents that record to SD card would be better.

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stinos 3819 days ago
The psychoacoustic modelling on the audio is not, however!!

There were quite some improvements between older and the latest models though, and the latter could also use uncompressed and/or lossless schemes.

the fascination with it at all.

One thing I really liked about it is the handling of discs. I don't know why, but I just liked the feeling of opening the player, ejecting a disc and inserting another one with a satisfactory 'click'.

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72deluxe 3818 days ago
A bit like using an old cassette walkman then!

Wobbling CDs into top-loading CD players was never as satisfying (and you were likely to scratch the underside of it as you slid it into the caddy).

Loading MP3s isn't satisfying at all.

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acveilleux 3819 days ago
It was a very popular platform for audio recording by journalists. Good from factor, good battery life, decent audio quality (compared to cassettes/mini cassettes,) flexible controls and either decent microphones or at least connectors.

I'm surprised it's still popular enough however, I'd have thought modern flash based platforms would have killed minidisc by now. It was different back in the early 2000s.

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