Some KZfaqrs keep comparing minidisc to CDs but that’s a mistake imo. MD were intended to replace cassettes, not CDs. I had a silver Sony MZ-R70 just like yours that I bought new in I think 1999. Loved it to bits and it was such an upgrade from my cassette Walkman. It was incredibly robust. It survived years of abuse including 7 months working in a freezing fish packing factory in Norway with salt water everywhere and cold temperatures. Then brought on a 9 month backpacking trip throughout Russia, Mongolia and China. It was the ultimate travel machine. I made field recordings with a Sony stereo microphone you could get for it. And I brought a couple cables so I could record music from fellow travellers, from hostels and cafes. I got such a wonderful collection of music that was organically integrated with the journey, part of the journey. Only Minidisc could have pulled that off. CD-RWs were unreliable and didn’t always work. They were bulky and fragile. Minidisc was the best format ever

I was gutted when Mini Disc didn't work out, I love them, I really thought they were the future, Mini disc should also make a comeback, great video 👍

Still rock'n the minidisc in 2024!

Every video I watch about MinDisc talks about how retro-futuristic and how much they look like the future. I agree.

I am 52 years old. I saw the dawn of minidisc. I love love love minidisc.

I got convinced to release my album on Minidisc, which admittedly I wasn't familiar with. We ended up selling 30 copies on preorder, so there's clearly some demand still out there! I ended up biting the bullet to have something to play it on and, by sheer coincidence, I got the same blue player you showed in your video. I was pleasantly surprised when my copies arrived - they're gorgeous little bits of kit, especially with the full body printing that the pressing plant offer!

Watching this reinforces why I love MiniDisc and why I try to get as many people as I can into the format. It's such a great format that I wish had taken off more worldwide. It should've been the future of portable audio. My NetMD machine through Web MiniDisc is my favorite way to record stuff from my collection over to work listening media. The designs are so cool to look at too, even the more plain looking ones.

Im 21. I never had an actual portable player other than mp3 player. I have a CD player at home that ive bought to play some of my thrash metal CDs, but now im thinking of buying the MDs. Those MD players are so beautiful.

Dad bought me a mini disc recorder (came with a portable player) to run my studio recordings off to when I was 17. Still have all the discs and I still love using them. And I agree, there's something really special about physical media like this.

I'm from America and I'm incredibly lucky I found a record shop here that sells blank minidiscs sealed! Just bought a portable player from Japan, I'm slowly acquiring all the parts to make it work!

I still use my minidisc in 2019 still love them 👍

The only downside is the lack of parts, for example, magnetic heads like to fail. And I think nostalgia is the key word. I've bought my last MD in 2023, and I bought the first one when it came out. I love the philosophy you put in your videos, it's not about logics, it's about we like to record things in real time, why not?

We are all on the same journey Tony! MiniDisc is awesome... yes, cassettes have a particularly pleasing aesthetic and I will never give up on them... but minidisc (for me at least) will always have a special place in my heart. I always love the underdog in any fight! Great vid as usual.

I am um, actually writing a modern front end for macs for minidiscs... It's nice to know I am not *totally* nuts/alone in this :)

I loved MiniDisc in it's heyday, I still have dozens of discs, the recorder and some portables. I still record on them for fun occasionally. What really helps by the way those portables tend to have very good headphone amps, much better than most cellphones have. And the ability to edit tracks down to a fraction of a second is a boon too. Still love cassettes too. The limitions of the format (especially playing time) are actually it's strength, because it forces you to really think what you put on them. It makes for much better mixtapes. And with Spotify you have a perfect source. Used to record a lot of digital satellite radio too.

I loved MiniDisc from the first day on! Great to catch sounds while traveling or to record ideas. Sure I put some of my favorite records on them an listen to them in the car to protect the expensive CD's. Thanks for your video! (PS: I also was a big cassette user before MiniDisc)

"and right now, they're not expensive"... MOMENTS LATER, EBAY PRICES EXPLODE ;-) I love minidisc too, for much the same reasons you do, and my little Panasonic unit still works fine. Minidisc is further proof, if any were needed, that the better format doesn't always win.

I love how enthusiastic you are about these things! It's really enjoyable to hear the genuine reverence in your voice. And yeah, I agree, they are amazing! Minidiscs are bloody brilliant.

Lovely vid there dude, thankyou! I've used minidisc almost every day since 1998. I love them xx

Ive been watching your videos for only a short time after getting back into cassette as I wanted to put something in my classic car and wanted it to be age appropriate. I also found my old walkman. I never really got into mini disc but accidentally purchased one with a couple of broken walkmen. Im impressed with the quality and the fact I have a tiny player/recorder.The only issue is that any spares for a mini disc machine are a lot more expensive compared with cassette...Good video and im now subscribed

I still use and record with my minidisc 2019

This is by far one of the most comprehensible videos about this subject I've ever seen. 10/10

BRING MINIDISCS BACK!!!

MiniDisc was a technically awesome format which was basically killed off by Sony's paranoia about copy protection. About the time when Napster popularized digital copying, Sony's clumsy efforts made the format look bothersome in comparison. I still have my two portable recorders, one of them being a NetMD, as well as a Yamaha stationary deck and a Denon mini format deck. And a bunch of recorded material.

Beautiful job on those. I thought they were store bought at first.

omg minidiscs are the future. totally want to get into them now!

I love this channel.. and didn't expect this video to pop up in my feed less than 48 hours after scooping up my first mini-disc Walkman (an MZ-R50 which I now know to sell and pick up for the upgrade version so I can have a digital output for the AAD masters produced in my recording studio which uses only pre-Y2k equipment) Thanks again, Tony.

No worries Tony! This is a format I have considered just because of it’s small form factor. Highly portable, high resolution and great sounding, can’t lose on this!😊💖

I couldn't resist a smile early in the vid when you threw a bunch of MD's up - amongst them 'Brothers In Arms' by the Dire Straits. Brothers In Arms was one of _the_ albums from the eighties and it was responsible for the final breakthrough of the CD to the masses. Millions and millions of copies were sold. I think it even became the second-best sold album of the decade, behind only Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. I believe it spend a staggering 5 years (!) in the Album Top 100 at the time. The thing is, that album became so popular not just because of it's music, but also because of it's superb sound quality. Mark Knopfler decided to go all-in on digital recording, trying out and experimenting with everything to see how digital would react. Then he created a sonic masterpiece that to this very day is amongst the pinnacle of digital CD quality and can still be used as a reference recording. Because of this, Philips - which had Dire Straits under contract - used this album extensively as promotion for the CD format. They did the same some years later when their digital DCC deck came out. The fun part is: even though Philips tried to take all the credit and used it extensively to promote the superior audio quality of the CD format and the DCC digital cassette system, the actual recorder on which Brothers In Arms was recorded, was a _Sony_ 24 bit PCM recorder! So that's why I had to chuckle a little when I saw it presented as a MD recording. Philips may have tried to take the credit, but that's some awesome Knopfler/Sony sound you're hearing there.

Love the format! I do a lot of recording of my own music onto MD. Have four Sony decks here, and now inspired to pick up a portable after watching this.

My story with Minidiscs started 3 years ago in a carboot sale....a lady sold me a fully working MZ-N505 for £2...and now I own more that 8 . Love them..more than my hi-fi flac player

Nice video! I loved the MD format as well. I bought the Sony MDS-JE520 in 1998. Sold it a few years later (wish I hadn't). Came upon a MDS-JE500 a few years ago and still have it. I just acquired another MDS-JE520 deck that will replace it. It'll be hooked in to my rack system. I hate that the MD format didn't take off. It was/IS a great format....I mean, how can you not love the little discs? Same amount of music as a 5 inch cd!

Still have all my minidiscs, and players/recorders (portable and standalone). Have not used them in years, but never got rid of them. Now that i my own room for music, with all my equipment, i am going to use it again. Just for the fun of it. Because that is what it is all about, having fun with music and its media. Tapes too. Quality may be less or maybe not, but that does not matter, it is all about having fun with your hobby! So hats off to you, and keep having fun with all these audio media 👍👍👍

I stumbled on this youtube video after watching an entertaining Techmoan one and I must say I love the passion here. So I love cassettes and I am one of those people that skipped the mini disc period. I can't remember the reason but at the time the recorders were expensive and there was some kind of restriction on recording artists content which put me off. However, i see this is not a problem so i think I will have a dabble and buy a recorder.

Long Live the mini disc! Still using and enjoying in 2024! Actually added a few more home decks to my collection.

Your "simple explanation" was plenty technical for me thanks.

Wow what a treat this was. I used my sharp mini disc player (just to listen to stuff on my dad made up the discs for me ) from age 14_17 I loved it I absolutely took it every where with me along with a couple discs in pocket to change over if one ran out. But then of course I went to MP3 player then iPod then Spotify but....when I want a device souly for music without any Interuptions from.emAils texts apps or mp3 players playing up I decided to go to my mum's loft where my childhood things were and route out the player with ally discs again ....to hold it in my hand put the disc in and out again pop those earphones in and listen to that crystyl clear sound was just so so satisfying I forgot how much I loved it so now I use it again regularly and infact have just purchased a second player. This time a Sony one . It honestly is for me the best way to listen to music on the go no problems no tech faults sound is amazing . I would highly recommend this to any music lover . So glad to have mini disc back in my life again. One positive thing about this shitty year You did a great job with this video sir well done

I first saw MiniDisc back in around 2005 on a train. Ten years later, I spotted a wild Sony NE410 at the flea market in Barcelona, and that marks the beginning of my journey of discovering MiniDisc.

13:30. It’s always amazed me how Sony managed to make the portable MD players so energy efficient. The playback time on my MZ-R900 is 30 hours off a single AA battery! The recording time is still a respectable 7 hours despite having to heat up the disc with a laser and then write to it. To my mind the portable minidisc players are the absolute pinnacle of consumer electronics miniaturisation and won’t ever be surpassed now we are in the digital memory age where everything is just stored on a computer chip.

I got into MiniDisc a bit late. Some of the clubs my band would play at would give us MiniDisc recordings of our shows. My college radio station was using them for some of their underwriting. And I essentially got paid to buy one to record my college choir's concerts in Europe in 2006 and 2008. It was seriously the best device for the job at that price point and even today most of the solid state devices I've seen are larger. My MD is a Hi-MD--more capacity and lots of other cool features. You could even use one like a portable hard drive and store data on it.

Love Miidisc ,still using them today together with cassettes . Great video btw.

I can relate, that's also why I love the Sony UMD, and love collecting for it, both movie and game ones.

I love having the possibility of physically having the music in my hands. Listening to my music through my phone does not bring me the same enjoyment I used to have when using my walkman.

I kind of skipped the minidisc age when it was at its high time. I was still using cassettes, because they were good enough, and mostly.. cheap. I didn't have much money, so I didn't do anything that costed a lot. What I did got eventually was a MP3 compatible CD car radio at the time. And burning CD's was just started to get popular. A blank writable CD costed about the same as a minidisc. Expensive, but also could hold a shitload more than a minidisc could. So I skipped Minidisc. MP3 was fine, and I got roughly 10 hours of music on one CD. All arranged in folders to separate albums easily. Or just a pile of files for endless shuffleplay. I didn't need minidisc. But roughly 25 years later I did got into minidisc because someone gave me a box full of them, with recorders and everything. So the flame ignited anyway albeit a little late.

I'll never forget seeing the first Sony MD portable recorder on display at a store. So so cool. Finally got that same model a couple years ago, complete with the demo disc that came with it. :-D I'm a little late, but I totally agree - they just look like the future and I'm going to get my turn enjoying them whether it makes any sense anymore or not. :-)

Minidisc changed my life!This was pre-PC for me and suddenly I could record my demos in almost perfect digital quality,utilising the old Les Paul 'Sound On Sound' technique and for the first time not having to worry about generational degradation.I fn**ing LOVED minidisc

Excellent video and one of the best pieces I’ve seen on Mini-disc. I’ve been using Mini-disc since the mid 90s an£ still using them. It’s such a flexible format and I agree it sounds really great. I am a musician and for years used a Mini-disc deck to record musical ideas to and also at one time to record basic mixes of songs, so I could then carry them around with me to live with the mixes so I could go back and tweak them later. I also agree the technology is just so cool and just so well engineered. I still use my Sony hi-fi Mini-disc deck to record any new vinyl to, just like I used to with cassette. Anyway thanks for a brilliant overview of my favourite audio format. Long live Mini-disc!

I have a Sharp Recordable Minidisc {MD-MT821H}, which I bought years ago, and which I love to this day. It still plays like a dream. Crystal clear and everything. It really is like technology from the future, rather than old technology. To get music for my minidisc, I connect it to my android phone and simply record music.

Nice vid.There is no reason MD or the ATRAC compression format should be retired to the scrapheap of obsolete tech/software! I initially got into MD, Net MD first actually to be precise, in order to record, and then retire all my CDs that were taking up way too much space! A bit of archiving one could make a case for I suppose was the reality of it. I decided that I would cram as many CDs onto one disc as humanly possible so I opted for Lp4 mode, using the MD simple burner as opposed to sonic stage initially, I preferred it if I remember correctly, and it seems it is no longer available to download! I never finished the project completely, as I continued to buy CDs for a few years after, and still do on occasion. But I did achieve what I set out to do, archive my CD collection up to that point, then storing them away. That was many moons ago, Lp4 was far superior to Mp3 IMHO, without a shadow of doubt. I use Mac now, so cant use the Net MD, so use Toslink on the MacBook or with my CD player sometimes. Other uses have been recording Vinyl, Recording my own performances as a creative word artist when I am on the radio.... I am going to utilise my sons older windows 10 gaming PC and get sonic stage on it one of these days very soon and finish the archiving. Also might use virtual box on my MacBook. On a side note for you, I now use Sharp non Net MD (still MDLP) units as the Sony ones always get a fault with the headphone jack. I kept one of my Sony Net MDs though as a recorder even though the headphone jack is broken, to use with USB and Sonicstage. HIMD was/is a whole other story, I bought and used one, but I hated the sound quality and sold it on. Had decks in the past too, and always check eBay to see if I can a bargain deck. Well, I could go on, and on, and on.....LOVE MD, it will never be beaten and will never really die!

Two years ago I bought a used (of course...) Tascam MD 350 Minidisc recorder and started playing my "old" minidiscs from the 90's. Surprise, surprise, they sounded much, much better then back in the day, played on the same Sony minidisc recorder I recorded them with. So, the Tascam has a much better A - D / D - A converter then my old Sony. TheTascam makes them sound fantastic so I bought a bunch of TDK RXG discs - not only for use on my home stereo but also for on my Sony Minidisc Walkman. Fantastic sound for "on the move". I love this format, completely agree with you on the best discs still looking like the future of recorded sound.

I became a MiniDisc user shortly after NetMD came on the scene. I could not afford one of those new fancy iPod things all the cool kids were showing off. But I could get a Minidisc with 160 min of music per disc (LP2 mode). All in a much smaller form factor then portable CD players or cassette players. The player and a hand full of discs provided plenty of listening time. I am now a second time MiniDisc user (as well as cassettes). I seem to have a soft spot for outdated/obsolete audio formats. No doubt I am in good company.

Just bought my first player/recorder. And some blank disks. Hurrah

Minidisc was a total game changer for me when it came out due to the editing features and also since the portable players could record in the field with excellent quality. Good tribute and explanation for the format here. I have recently used minidisc as a master for producing a little run of mix tapes :)

You've basically said everything I've felt about MD's. Lost mime on the divorce, but I still have some of the discs work loads of songs I wrote in the early 00's. You're totally convinced me to buy another.

I had a few MD players in my teens and I loved it. I was swayed into MP3 players and phones etc. But recently I’ve had the want to get back into MD and take more time to enjoy my music, so on the look out for new equipment! I think by not having all known music available all the time, I will take the time to enjoy each track and really get to know my music again, like I did when I was 14. Great video!

I’ve been looking at going back to minidisc and found your channel. Insta-subbed when I read the channel name! Great video. Thanks for sharing.

I have a minidisc deck MDS-JE330 and I'm very satisfied with sound from this device. Week ago i've repaired portable minidisc MZ-R90. This is a high tech, small unit with analog and optical input, have possibility record from mic. You can take your favourite music to walk. I know how a minidisc works, how ATRAC works. It's a great technology, it's a pity it has been replaced by phone and network services related to streaming music. Portable players offer a high quality of sound, decks are better. Thanks for prepare this video.

Loved your video, have 7 recorders myself. 2 Hi-MD portables, 2 NetMD portables, 2 MDSP models and a mini Hi-Fi with an MDLP deck built in. Always been my favourite digital format. Cheers.

2022 and still using it in LP2 mode could squeeze 2 album in 1 disc. My SHARP MD from 1996 works fine till now. 😊

Great video. I'm still using my MZ-R50 26 years after buying it in Japan. The original battery still charges and works well. Long live MD!

I bought a Sharp MD MT170 personal minidisc recorder back in 2003 and mainly it was to record CD's to play on my Sony minidisc car stereo. In the last year I've got my sharp recorder back out of the loft and I'm listienng to all the music I recorded back then as well as a few new discs I've recorded too. Don't tell the wife but I've just bought a Sont net MD machine off ebay so I can finally but all the track titles on my discs :-) I always thought the format was great. I think many people call it a failure but in reality it was big in Europe and Japan but not the USA as the record company's didnt like the idea of digitaly recording music. Interest has grown in the States now though. I'm going to enjoy it as well as my vinyl and my cassettes too!!

I decided a couple of years ago that I was fed-up with trying to find albums on my iPod Classic 160GB and I would go back to Minidisc 🙂 I bought a NET MD recorder on eBay and the propriety cable it needed and a power supply as it had a gumstick internal battery. Then I had to convert everything from iTunes format to MP3 before I could transfer anything with Sonic-stage and that took so long and it was only on a Windows 7 Laptop I could do it :-( I gave up. Then the other month I discovered the webAPP that transfwers any music format to a NET MD :-) :-) The web Minidisc project I think it's called anyway it works on my Macmini with no drivers and apparently on Windows and Linux too 🙂 And then the Sony propriety USB cable failed - I'm waiting for a new device from Hong KOng to stop needing that cable 😲

I agree with you the MD should come back

what's interesting is that the R37, which you show, was my first MD recorder/player back in high school, and the R70, which you also show was one of the later units I bought in high school, and also the one I bought off eBay earlier this year when I got back into the format

2:35 Looks like a 3½ inch floppy disk to me. Not that there's something wrong with it. I still do enjoy my retro PSP that uses UMDs.

thanks a million showing me how to record on mini-disk you are the only one that had the right type of info video you are great no one I asked would help me thank mate

I spent about 2 or 3000 dollars on MiniDisc. It was the best. I still have heaps. Now I want a player and recorder again.

Great video, I use MiniDisc a great deal, both home decks & portables. As you say, the last of the real physical media. ( I still use cassettes and VHS too!).

Because the format is awesome! I own 2 portables one being a recorder, one component recorder and 2 Ford in dash players. Love them all!

I can't believe it's been like 30 years since I was in NYC and walked from one store to another until I found the right price and blew all my student savings on a MZ-1. When I came back to Montreal I was insufferable, I was carrying it around with me everywhere (most of the time not playing a thing because of the miserable battery life) and making sure a minidisc was visible in the little pouch of the carrying case...

this was worth watching while i was eating dinner. even if i know most things about MD, its always nice to see other reviewing something myself has a nostalgic feeling for. i feel less lonely then :D.

I still think md is one of the best inventions ever made. Can't be beaten for editing purposes, especially on the full size machines!

Tow years ago I bought a second-hand TASCAM MD350 minidisc recorder and - I love it! Fantastic sound quality (probably very, very good DA/AD converters), it makes near perfect copies, great for portable use in my Sony minidisc walkman. I bought a bunch of TDK MD-XG and Maxell MD discs and they are outstanding. . I still have discs I recorded during the 90´s and all of them are still in great shape.

Not gonna lie, you're correct in saying that your favorite MiniDisc player is beautiful, and those J Cards and labels you made for your Minidisc are badass

I use mine every day also. Love it

2024 and I still use them. I’ve just brought them back to the future with a Bluetooth transmitter. Now no more wires but miss the remote on the old earphones

I am a fan and record all my music onto minidisc, i play it back in my two cars, my garage, my big garden shed, and in my Conservatory. I have a very large collection of songs i like on many discs, and haven't listened to a radio for a long long time because as far as i am concerned music died circa 1980.

I still use these damn things. Minidisc is great! I love the format. I still have my Sony minidisc mds-je470 hooked up on my hifi setup.

Some gumstick batteries can be found on Ebay. Mostly from China, but hey it can still power your machine!

Mini Discs are great. I have many and players it was my first medium after cassette and before the Ipod. I listen to mine regularly.

I still have and use minidisc, I love the format and recently played a few discs for my toddler daughter to dance to!

In another timeline, a few minidisc boomboxes were made.

I thoroughly enjoyed the "boring" technical explanations and details of the mechanics of the minidisc and Atrac specifications. I have always loved using minidiscs since 1999. Unfortunately, I had sold my one and only minidisc player/recorder a few years ago and I am trying to find another minidisc player/recorder with the latest Atrac encoding scheme. I have two boxes of minidiscs with old R&B, jazz, and pop songs that I recorded off FM stations WWSO 92.9 and WJCD 105.3 twenty years earlier. As those stations have long been taken off the air, I would love to hear those old recordings. Such is life. Cassette Comeback, keep up the good work.

MiniDisc is my number 1 home music source.............Glad they're still available.

10 Years ago MiniDisc 💽 was my first entry into digital recording on a mobile recording device (before i could afford flash audio). And holy cow was MiniDisc a great and fun entry. Did pretty much nothing else but fieldrecording with a little stereo mic or recording Radio programs. The physical aspect is the important factor. Especially when you had differently coloured MDs so you often knew right away what stuff was on which MD. I hated it when you couldn't get the coloured ones anymore, only the golden "professional" Sony MDs and then suddenly, literally within days, you couldn't even get those anymore either. Except online through scalper sellers… I should have stockpiled these coloured ones while i still had the chance… Sony had such potential with MD and look how they treated it…

i went to minidisc about 20 years ago from cassette, i still have an mds jb980 and use it from time to time, i have shed loads of discs some still unused, i found it more handy than tape, performed just as well and unlike tape it takes a lot to knacker a disc. i dug out the old tape deck recently sony 870, left pinch roller shot, to be replaced,otherwise all ok still have a few tapes mostly tdk ma about 7 of them, i will get the deck right before i see whats on them because i cant remember. i got 2 maxell vertex tapes off a guy i knew years ago, i read they are worth a bit. in about 2007 i bought a mz-r909 for next to nowt it came with some discs, it still is working to this day. overall i preferred minidisc all round, and good decks have very good dacs in them. to finish, back in the day i went to buy californication by the chilli peppers, originally on vinyl, they took the vinyl albums off the shelves for some reason, so ended up buying it on minidisc, the only shop md i ever bought.

I couldn't agree more with you whenever you say this kind of hobby makes no sense and it shouldn't make. It's the same thing when people ask why do I put so much care, effort and money on my mundane MK6 Escort Si. It will never be as good as any modern car, it wasn't even the best of the bunch when new but I simply don't care, it's a hobby and the same goes with my Minidiscs. Thanks for the video and the wise words, Tony

Still got my Sony portable and Kenwood full size deck . Got about 100 discs .👍

I am from York Pennsylvania in the good old USA and I have 4 Sony minidisc player recorders. I don't have any of the pocket-size players as shown in this video. I have four audio stereo units. I'm a DJ and when mini just came in before CDR, I was still playing vinyl and some CD while DJing. Suddenly, boom!... The mini discs appeared! At that time it was a late 1990s and although it took real time to record Tunes from Vinyl to play while DJing, it completely annihilated any reason to bring a turntable and a record to DJ with. I loved and still love mini disc! One of the coolest things about mini discs is that there's a stereo and mono switch and if you switch it into mono, somehow it doubles the length of the recording on the desk. So if you had an 80-minute minidisc and you put it into mono mode, bingo!... You had 160 min on just one mini disc which made things even better because when you're dancing, who the hell cares if it's in Stereo or mono, right? So as far as DJing goes, mini discs were amazing. I have a machine that has a CD on the left side and a mini disc recorder player on the right side of the unit. That particular unit can take one 80 min mini desk and put it into a 5-hour mode and if you mix things right, you had a 5-Hour party that just slipped into your shirt pocket! Amazing! Now, that's just for DJing. As far as home use goes, the mini disc actually recorded much better then the common CDR disc from any sores on any recordable deck I've ever tried. For whatever reason the sound captured on a mini disc when played back was so much smoother and I dare even say warm sounding then any CDR or any CD. To me, yes, it was not like recording on good old blank audio cassette or reel to reel, but when you record vinyl onto a common CDR, the result sounds like shit! But, that's not so with the mini disc! The sound of vinyl recorded onto a mini disc was and still is very pleasant to listen to and not harsh like the sound of vinyl record it on the common CDR. I have probably about 200 mini discs in my collection. Although I must say I don't use the mini disc hardly at all anymore, I will say this, mini disc was always more practical for me sound wise but the trouble was by the year 2000, mini discs we're getting harder and harder to find here in the USA. Believe it or not, I DJ'd with mini discs up until about two or three years ago along with CDR's. Of course these days I use my cell, tablet, and Virtual DJ on my PC. The only thing that never got to the states as far as I can you remember, were pre-recorded mini discs. I was an assistant manager at Camelot Music, a very healthy music store chain in the 1980's and 1990's here in the USA and I tried to order 1 pre-recorded minidisc from Europe and it never made it to the store. But as far as recordable mini discs, there were actually plenty available from the early 1990s until the early 2000s. I love the mini discs! Thanks for this video Tony! You are awesome!

Great video Tony, I only metioned minidisc yesterday, I've still got my Sony MD Walkman - MZ-G750 working perfectly, as well as a Panasonic MD Midi system along with about 40 "mixtape" discs, along with a handful of still sealed blanks. I Think they sound as good as CDs. The only failure I've had is with a Sony model ZS M -35, a Boombox type unit which failed a couple of years ago, first the tuner went then the rest of the functions failed, eventually it just showed 'error' on the display. I'd one day like to be able to get it fixed although it's probably a complex software fault.

A fabulous format and a joy to use. Whilst I've used many recordings formats MD is my fav. 😎😎😎

Nothing is boring when it's done by Tony. 😎

Especially the first years of MD era when you come up to sign an autograph on a minidisc at the concert while everyone else had a piece of paper or a cd you would be treated a kinda special way by the celebrities - like a guy from the future

I still have my mini disk recorder it works great !

Im 39 and i love MD's

I've been recording on mini discs since 1998, and still do today. The sound quality is way superior to mp3. Got a nice collection of discs, walkmans & a nice hi fi separate for my beat lab. Never bought a duff disc or recorder second hand. I find them extremely reliable as you'd be hard pressed to scratch them like you could a CD. Also, I've got recordings from 22 years ago that have not deteriorated in any way.

Great digital audio format! Back then they made these things with quality and convenience in mind! Now it's about convenience and damned the quality!

I used to love my mini disc. I used to plug a microphone into it and had great fun recording my mates at school. Would have liked a radio in one though and be able to record off air, not sure if that ever was a thing

Kudos to you for honoring that great format. I had a 700QS deck and an R30 portable back in the day. Both were great machines while they lasted but showed some glitches down the road like any format does. From my experience, especially the recording lasers were somewhat weak and tended to lose power over time (after all, they did have lots of work to do) and some MD discs started to show wear which manifested in drop-outs after having been recorded multiple times. Plus, the mechanics in the devices were unquestionably sophisticated, but also very delicate. Then again, I also lost lots of CD burners due to the same issues. But while MD was a hot topic, it was an amazing format. And given what we have seen as improvements in the world of audio coding, it would have only gotten better over time. But CD Recording for everyone, dropping storage prices for HDDs and HDD- or flash-based portable audio players ultimately killed it.

Minidisc has Nice sound and the best way for vintage portable music