#minidisc player

[missallyblue]

Today's minidisc player of choice, a Sharp MD-MS100 with some aussie rap.

[2001hz]

Sony: Walkman, Guta Studio, from Talento Ilustração 11 (2002)

[zegalba]

Sony: concepts for minidisc player and compact disc player, designed by Karim Rashid (1998)

[eightiesfan]

Sony ZS D7 (1988)

[tilbageidanmark]

Sony Walkman F5, 1985

[jonreytrevino]

Repost Classic : MiniDisc Pico

7/16/21

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[grrl-bubble-acid]

Aiwa AM-NX9

[robustcornhusk]

You know how much I love obsolete formats

[articution]

my very first MD walkman, a sony MZ-E505 💙

[megabuild]

pix's new life character just being the archaeologist from empires s2 again is insane because imagine dealing with everything that happened in empires and all the weird guys around you that bothered you and messed with your digs and you finally finish and leave to go do something else with your life and theres a group of identical people with the same names intent on making your afterlife hell again like i would kill myself honestly

[missallyblue]

Proud Mary Keep On Burnin’

[swarmofbeeees]

Yesssssssss god I wish everything I owned was nuclear cockroach material, it all just works

And even when they have issues, like say the belts being knackered in a tape player, you can just fix it! She's got screws and has space for you to actually disassemble her, and you can replace the belts or unsolder a bad component and replace it (tantalum caps my beloved)

As someone who buys a shit tonne of vintage and retro items all the time I need to tell you about the "shart zone" and "prime nuclear cockroach material"

when buying used items i will do anything in my power to avoid the shart zone, which is in the range of 5-10 years old, this is a short enough amount of time for especially electronic items to have not found a way to fall apart horribly but have become out dated enough to have no support and likely will not retain any value. I do however LOVE the nuclear cockroach material zone which is anything 20+ years old. If it still works after 20 years it is going to work forever. A great example of this is my pc which exists in the shart zone and has to be revved up to turn on lawnmower style, but my N64 works fine.

[m0ney]

Victor KT-XM52 Hello Kitty minidisc player⋆ ˚｡⋆☆♡˚

[luimnigh]

So yesterday, Green Day announced that for the 30th Anniversary of their album Dookie, they would be releasing Demastered versions of the album's songs.

Every song on the album has been placed on outdated, lower-quality, inconvenient audio formats, and you can enter a draw to win the chance to buy one of the limited edition copies.

You can maybe get your hands on one of:

3 copies of Burnout on Player Piano Rolls

50 copies of Having A Blast on Floppy Disk

1 copy of Chump on Teddy Ruxpin

1 copy of Longview on a wireless doorbell

25 copies of Welcome to Paradise on Game Boy cartridge

1 copy of Pulling Teeth on Electric Toothbrush

1 copy of Basket Case on Singing Big Mouth Bass

3 copies of She on Hitclip

10 copies of Sassafrass Roots on 8-Track

5 copies of When I Come Around on Gramophone Wax Cylinders

3 copies of Coming Clean on X-Ray Records (records made of used X-Ray plates)

1 copy of Emenius Sleepus on Answering Machine

10 copies of In The End on MiniDisc

20 copies of F.O.D. (Fuck Off and Die) on Fisher Price toy records.

10 copies of All By Myself on hand-cranked music box

Unfortunately, only available in the United States, otherwise I'd love to get my hands on one of these.

[digitalscape001]

the sony mz-e900 walkman (2000) for the minidisc - the midway music format between cds and mp3s. note the sidecar, which displayed tracks, duration, and also held the battery source for the player.

[nhaneh]

I don't miss the bulk and hassle of old physical media - being able to bring massive music libraries with you pretty much wherever you go pretty much effortlessly with no skips and minimal seek times is much superior to what we had before things like mp3 players became basically ubiquitous.

But I'll admit I sometimes miss the kinetic feel of things like minidiscs or cassette tapes.

Like don't get me wrong, SD cards and USB thumb drives not only house *vastly* more data than the 3.5" diskettes and tape datasettes of my childhood, but even most of the really cheap ones also tend to be significantly more reliable, especially compared to the 3.5" floppies which picked up sector faults the way magnets pick up metal fragments, but there was something satisfying about all the mechanical noises and action that was involved with some of those medias.