Taking Sides: MiniDisc vs. MP3

I don't quite get those who prefer MD. The only advantage I think it has is in live recording, and that's only if you own one of the Sharp units (size doesn't count as an advantage if you're comparing them to the iPod). Sony MDs make you do everything with three or four buttons, and unless they've changed them recently, it's almost impossible to adjust recording levels plus no adjustments can be made while it's recording. The Nomad 3 will record, but you can't adjust recording levels. As soon as Creative gets off their collective ass and upgrades the firmware to allow for adjustment of recording levels, MD will have nothing on my mp3 jukebox.

I believe that's the point. ;-)

did y'all know they still made minidisc players?? not for much longer though. RIP big format

DCC fans can still eat a fuc

Loving Jonesey's science upthread.

Aw, this thread.

Still have boxes of MDs. Sony MD deck was taken out of my system in the grand hi-fi sell-off of last summer but then reinstated when I realised I still needed optical and coaxial connections for playing back stuff from the laptop or the Akai HD multi-track. So it gets used every day, just not necessarily with a MiniDisc inside it.

Still a fantastic format for field recording, live practice, etc, with a decent stereo/binaural mic.

Also: for reasons I don't fully understand, the internal connections around the phono stage in my 25-y-o Cyrus amp are so crummy that one channel of vinyl playback occasionally drops out, but this *isn't* apparent (as often) if I listen to vinyl through the MD deck (Cyrus set to "record phono", Sony MD set to "analogue" and rec-pause). So I listen to a lot of LPs through the MD deck. Which finally fully invalidates my audiophile credentials. Oh well, I had a good run.

I still have a bow or two and two working MD player - recorder walkmans. To me the appeal has always been being able to record on the fly.

I knew only one person with an MD player. I think I saw it at his house a week after reading about it the first time and being surprised that he knew about it. It seemed like the greatest thing in the world, like a smaller version of a CD that was also re-recordable and even more durable as a portable device - I remember vigorously shaking it for a few seconds just to see if it would skip. (It did NOT.) MP3's came soon after and then once I got an iPod, MiniDisc really did seem like a relic, but it was pretty awesome for a short while.

i have a minidisc with an interview with wendy james on it.

unfortunately i have no idea re whats on it as my MD player died soon after the chat (around the same time she was releasing her first racine album).
also, i had no idea re gadgets and setting things up, so pretty sure it has none of my side of the interview on it.
all that said, we had a cracking chat once she had got home and opened a bottle of bubbly.
(i originally called at the designated time, she answered : 'darling, i am in a taxi, call me back in 15 mins yeah ..' )

I'd be happy to make it into a mp3 if you want to mail it to me

thats not the half of the story.
at the time i was a support desk monkey.
as the time approached re the interview, i decided to come clean with my boss.
soon as he heard the words 'wendy james' he was all 'go into the executive boardroom and do what you need to do'.
i dont think i have ever had such an easy hour off work.

ta for the offer LG, that's very kind of you, but i have lots of minidiscs, and no idea which is the one that has the half sided interview on it.