As someone who was all-in on MiniDisc in the early 2000s, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s a strange format. MiniDisc never really challenged formats like CD, cassette, and vinyl as a ...

MiniDisc Walkmen are famously compact devices, so adding a full circuit board to one wasn’t easy. [Daniel] managed to squeeze the PCB from a Schosche wireless audio transmitter inside the ...

The MiniDisc recorder was in my pants. This was how you bootlegged a concert in 1998—you'd come into the hall with no bag, ready for the pat-down, with a stereo microphone wired up your arms and ...

The MiniDisc represents Sony at the height of its 1990s arrogance. In 1992, when the MiniDisc was introduced, Sony could do no wrong in consumer electronics: the best TVs were Trinitrons, the ...

I got my hands on some pro Minidisc hardware in the 2000s, and really loved the format, except for one glaring weakness. There wasn’t a way to dump the audio data to a computer.

The MiniDisc ended up living 21 years before it eventually will see its deathbed this year, which is quite a long time, considering that half its lifetime was seen living in the iPod ages.

A while ago, before I had bought a MiniDisc player/recorder, I saw in a Crutchfield catalog a MiniDisc drive for the computer. I bought a MiniDisc player/recorder last december before the NetMD's ...

I understand that, but Sony isn't the only one making minidisc players/recorders. And even Sony has a player with digital out, but it is a component one (I'd rather buy a Teac one though, it can ...

The Japanese company launched the MiniDisc in 1992. For younger readers, that was the year of the Maastrict treaty, Windows 3.1 and Lethal Weapon 3. For older readers, it's when Miley Cyrus was born.

Thanks to enthusiasts at minidisc.wiki, you can still add songs to a MiniDisc from a modern computer using its web app. Which means we live in a world where a Pixel 9 Pro can talk to a MiniDisc ...