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Minidisc releases
How much is released on Minidisc these days, I just got a new hi-fi and mindisc is on it, I was just interested to know what kind of a scene minidisc has these days?
If anyone has Minidisc can they tell me if track titles are displayed? |
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Track titles are displayed but very little is released on them. I usually only use MDs for recording my own compilations. There is less MD stuff available now than there was about 2 or 3 years ago as well. A failed attempt at replacing the cassette tape. But they perform much better than cassette, they're just more expensive.
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There are hardly any pre-recorded md's out there and the price of the one's that are is high, typically £16+ vs £10 to £12 for the CD version.
Where the format comes into it's own is producing your own compilations especially if you use the LP2 mode, up to 160 mins on an 80 min disc. The blank discs are fairly cheap, about £1 each and can be recorded on again and again, in 5 years of using them I have not had one fail. I have a portable player/recorder that goes everywhere with me and can also be connected to the PC to copy tracks to it at about 16x. If you want some more info on MD in general take a look at www.minidisc.org |
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I saw Minidisc albums in HMV for £14.99.
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Originally posted by magic There's also the perennial problem that when you move them to the car / portable / hifi player, you lose your place, unlike a cassette. Same if you accidentally eject a disc. FF/RWD is very very slow on these things, and inserting track marks isn't feasible in the car.
Track titles are displayed but very little is released on them. I usually only use MDs for recording my own compilations. There is less MD stuff available now than there was about 2 or 3 years ago as well. A failed attempt at replacing the cassette tape. But they perform much better than cassette, they're just more expensive. |
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There's also the perennial problem that when you move them to the car / portable / hifi player, you lose your place, unlike a cassette. Same if you accidentally eject a disc. FF/RWD is very very slow on these things, and inserting track marks isn't feasible in the car.
All that would be true for a CD too, but we don't want to go back to cassettes.
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Mini-discs are an improvement on CDs for a number of reasons - a small one is that they keep their place even if you press stop. |
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Originally posted by misterpartridge My DVD player does that with CDs Mini-discs are an improvement on CDs for a number of reasons - a small one is that they keep their place even if you press stop.
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The CD player in focus remembers where abouts I was when the disc stops. Most MD players do, and my RioVolt CD/MP3 player remembers the position of the last 8 discs played.
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Originally posted by andysmith Just about proves how hap-hazard it all is: my portable MD remembers where it was, the in-car 6-pack jobby does too but the one in the hi-fi doesn't. Equally the hi-fi CD player always defaults to the start of a disc, whereas the last in-car CD that I had picked up from where it left off.The CD player in focus remembers where abouts I was when the disc stops. Most MD players do, and my RioVolt CD/MP3 player remembers the position of the last 8 discs played. All the MDs were [are] Sony, neither of the CD players are. The point about cassettes was I presume that you can play them literally anywhere, take them out of one machine and carry on from the same place in the next. Their ubiquitousness [?] was what helped them to carry on long after they should have been dead and buried. Minidiscs don't have that pull. |
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mmm.
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