I still use my Minidiscs, but I mainly use it for downloading podcasts, use it daily. I usually download the podcast Coast2coast with it, I have 3, MZH-10's. I do listen to music as well and it sounds great, but I don't do that very regular, due to CD's being prevalent.
I have acquired many portable players and recorders (seems every collection becomes an obsession). I have a MZ-1 that I use several times a week for playback. It still records just fine, but I don't need it to since I have a MDS-JE520 that does the job very nicely. A 320 and a 330 are in backup mode. I use one of my portables in rotation daily when I walk. I missed the minidisc technology the first time around, and now that it's much more affordable, I've embraced the tech in a big way.
My eBay account pays off! A few years ago I set up my eBay account to notify me by email whenever someone listed a product for sale that included the words "Minidisc" and "labels." Finally, this week I got a notification and was able to snag a full set of original Fellowes Minidisc labels (from 1999!) for 10 bucks. This package has enough labels for 80 Minidiscs.
This "boxed set" includes BBC Radio's landmark 10-hour documentary on John Lennon, "In My Life," produced in 1990 and rebroadcast a few years ago. It also includes the two-hour BBC Radio documentary, "Lennon's Legacy." (The programs are in stereo, recorded in LP2 mode (160 minutes per disc.)
As I type this I'm listening to (and capturing to computer for digital manipulation and mastering) raw audio from Gary Numan's concert at 930 in Washington DC from Saturday night. I use MiniDisc (Sony MZ-R30 / F-99EX microphone) to record practically every concert I attend. Results are wildly variable. Some of my audience recordings come out excellent - some not so much. This one sounds like it may be OK. It will need a lot of mastering/post-production help. I switched mic locations from one pocket to the other for the encore so that came out a lot better.
My needle-drop of the 40th anniversary 180-gram vinyl reissue of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken."
Here you are taunting us again Clark! That looks like a good use for 74 minute discs. Would it fit on a pair of 60's? I wish I'd of bought beaucoups more of the 60's back when they still sold 'em. They're so good for the length of albums before CD's. I'm still doing an occasional vinyl....
Yeah, the 3-LP set actually would fit snugly onto two 60-minute discs (with one track from Side 4 placed at the end of Minidisc 1, instead of at the start of Minidisc 2), but I am fresh out of 60-minute discs. They do come in handy for LP transfers.
Which font are you using for the text here Clark? Looks really good, especially the 'Disc One' and 'Disk Two' identifiers. Best Wishes, David
Minidisco, remember them? They closed out the 60's sometime in the early 2000's. I was digitizing vinyl, I should of bought more of 'em. You didn't see 60's in physical locations by then.
Finally got around to transferring two radio specials from 1996 to Minidisc. Both are productions of The Album Network and were tied to The Beatles' "Anthology" releases of that year...
I've just moved houses and found that i've got 6 of those little boxes that MiniDiscs are kept in, each full of Minidiscs. My Wife is intent on just dumping a load of stuff, these included. But can anyone tell me if they're resellable? Its all stuff i've recorded onto them, and so can be wiped and reused. I dont know the type of disc they are though but i gather there is different types (similar to Cassette tapes).
I guess they can be sold for € 0,5 to € 1 a piece. That’s the price being asked on second hand on line shops here in Belgium.
I never bought one but my brother did. I thought it was a pretty cool format and my brother had a portable that’s he used to make some pretty decent live audience recordings. I can only invest in so many formats at one time. CDs and LPs keep me busy enough.
