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#MiniDisc

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Semach.the.monkey
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Just had a #MiniDisc delivery. These are destined to be overwritten, but I guess today I will mostly be listening to... Aled Jones and "an excellent combination of 2 CDs worth of haunting, atmospheric music with some great voices and music"

Dustin
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I really wish the minidisc format was still used. It’s one of the best technopunk media ever invented and it could’ve been so much more than it ended up being. It seems like the decision by Sony to use its own software interface rather than integrate it into the host OS filesystem was the biggest mistake. It’s a layer of friction for the user that didn’t need to exist.

Thomas
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Made a backup of our only full album to mini-disc this past week. I have to say that minidisc is indeed the ultimate physical presence. The entire haptic and limitation to the usual 80mins are giving me a feeling of peace while listening to some old mixtapes. No trillion possibilities, just focus on whats currently playing with reduced fomo and constant skipping around trough streams.

Theoretically we could skip the laser and magnetic drives and just have 700MB sd cards encapsulated in cases. The size is perfect.

The player would be rather cheap to manufacture tech wise but could be made with some nice and solid aluminium with a certain weight and a big replaceable 18650 standard cell. ( Only music, not even snake on it.)

vga256
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for two years i've been promising myself i'd order a big box of used minidiscs from japan

i finally gave in and order some last week. fifty discs, all with cases, and various makes and models. i am in wonder at the many different colours and translucencies 😻

some have english labels, and appear to be old live band recordings

Micheal :devterm:
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Over the past year I've been moving my daily tech stack away from always-connected to more purposeful offline-first technology.

Sure a phone can do everything these can in a smaller, lighter and more powerful package. But these allow me to fully disconnect from distractions and focus on a single task when needed.

I still heavily use my phone, but it's nice to have these as options and brings me more joy than any next-gen technology does.

#retrocomputing #vintagemacintosh #psp #minidisc #palmcomputing #casio