What the fuck is a MD?
The MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device offering a capacity of 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. The Sony brand audio players were on the market from September 1992 until March 2013
>>142078079
Gamecube used them.
Think CD but for babies.
Does Machi have good taste?
>>142078079
Underage.
It's that tiny CD the Bionicles game for PC was on.
>>142078079
Ok it's official.
You're can't be 18.
Now fuck off and die.
>>142078502
I'm 29 but I went from tapes to cds, the fuck
>>142078321
No.
>>142078079
You had to be alive to understand this, but Cassettes were really popular. Because you could record your favorite music off the radio without buying the record. People would share music this way, dubbing music was huge in the 80's.
Then came the CD, which was nice, but unfortunately you couldn't erase content and record over old shit like you could do with a tape. Sure if you had a computer you could make music CDs, however understand in the early 90's no one had a computer or even a digital music format to make this a realistic issue.
In steps SONY, with the mini-Disk. The mini disk suffered from the exact same problem that BETAMAX did, which is SONY only sold MD players for the first 5 years or so of their existence, and they sold them at what was insane prices (think ipod prices). The result is it had almost no market penetration in the states, though some people did have them.
The problem mini disks ran into was 2 fold.
1) windows95 came out and everyone had a pc with a cd burner and a modem. It only took 5-15 minutes to download a song online on a 56k baud modem.
2) NAPSTER came out and EVERYONE was using it plus their pcs to make music disks like they used to make mix tapes.
It was in this market Apple launched the ipad and people just did away with physical media all together.
Now in Japan, the japanese consumers actually went straight into the mini-disk at SONY's insane prices, and napster didn't really happen there. So when the ipod came out, the japanese had a huge music industry built around minidisks (you could really only buy albums in that format), which basically prevented the ipod gaining any real entry into the japanese market. as the japanese market remained on physical media long after everyone else went digital. It wasn't till smartphones gained traction in japan, pushing the japanese consumer to go digital with their music, and killed off the minidisk player there.
>>142078079
Some diskette old shit from computers
>>142078599
It's official you can lie on the internet.
Time to kill myself if it comes to that.
>>142078818
It must be noted that minidisc players still hold the record for the most durable music playing format. You would think a device with moving parts would be more liable to break, but those Sony MD players could survive vehicle crashes without skipping.
>>142079981
>It must be noted that minidisc players still hold the record for the most durable music playing format. You would think a device with moving parts would be more liable to break, but those Sony MD players could survive vehicle crashes without skipping.
I owned one, got one in high school in 95, had it straight through 1999, when my cousin stole it from me to sell for some drugs.
It was a great format. CD quality sound on a disk you can record and re-record over forever just like old cassette tapes. and yeah, those disks were damned near impossible to damage.
>>142078321
>the strokes
>>142079981
>but those Sony MD players could survive vehicle crashes without skipping.
Confirmed for never owning one.
I had several of them for entry level digital recording purposes. The portable Sony skipped if you so much as sneezed near it. The stationary I used for recording was almost as bad, but slightly better just because it weighed a fuckton compared.
I still have a back street boys MD, shit was awful
>>142078079
Fuck knows
>>142080286
I did actually own one to record demos and never had any problems with it.
>>142078200
No, it didn't. Gamecube discs were essentially just 8 cm DVDs written backwards. Basically just a shiny disc with pits. MiniDiscs used a different technology (based on how magnetism affects the reflection of light) and always came in a caddy.
>>142080521
>Basically just a shiny disc with pits
Why does this sound lewd?
>>142078079
another failed sony format, like the betamax
>>142078079
Maryland
>>142080521
>written backwards
I wouldn't bank on that backwards spinning bullshit. The discs could be directly read & ripped by handful LG dvdrom drives and store bought recordable media worked fine.
>>142080521
>written backwards
Everytime
>>142080707
>The discs could be directly read & ripped by handful LG dvdrom drives
Wasn't that because it was the only drive that could read the BCA? Allegedly that feature was too expensive to implement into the original DVD spec, but eventually made it into Blu-ray.
>>142078079
it would have been a cheap, practically unbreakable 140MB replacement for the 1.44MB floppy disk, the terribly unreliable iomega zip and the fragile expensive CDRW, they even pushed out a 350MB and eventually a 1GB version but >sony
>>142078079
Shit, man, this takes me back.
Remember when CD caddies were a thing?
>>142080521
>written backwards
kek
>>142080753
that's a big condom
>>142080707
As long as the spiral is the same shape and the disc drive can provide raw bit access, that shouldn't really matter, at least for copying.
Looking into it though, it seems the actual difference between Nintendo's discs and DVDs is exactly that shape (or rather, the former doesn't use a spiral at all), which wakes it kind of strange there a DVD-ROM drives that could read them at all.
>>142081033
bear-sized
>>142078818
I had a MD back in the day. It was pretty good for the time, and probably the cheapest digital recording format. It was really popular with concert bootleggers.
Japs used them because they could rent CDs for cheap and make near 1:1 digital copies of them.
>>142082022
EPIC SIMPLY EPIC
>>142078321
>listening to anything by the Strokes other than Is This It?
>>142078502
Being 18 isn't such a high honour. Bakuganfags are old enough to post now. Many of them have never even seen an audio CD thanks to limewire, itunes and whatnot, or even a DVD player for the same reason.
>>142078110
>The Sony brand audio players
No wonder OP doesn't know what it is.
>>142082205
my literally fucking nigga
>>142078321
>listening to their worst album
>>142080960
They never were a thing if you didn't buy trash
>>142082205
Room on Fire is a 6/10 and First Impressions is an easy 9/10.
Everything since has been fetid hogwash
>>142083148
Quality shop skills.
>>142083254
Is This It and Room On Fire are both +7.5/10, but I can see where you're coming from
>>142083512
I'm too tired to do a good job, but it gets the idea across
>>142083254
First Impressions was pretty unremarkable my dude.
>>142083807
Room on Fire was okay, but Is This Is It was on another level. In their defense, it would be really hard to live up to something like that. Sophomore slump and whatnot.
>>142081904
>It was really popular with concert bootleggers.
Not only them. My mother works at a local radio station and everyone there used it for portable recording for a good while. Same with her colleagues from other stations.
>>142080707
It doesn't spin backwards; the data is written from the outer edge in, instead of from the inner edge out.
Kids today wont understand what is betamax
Who /laserdisc/ here?
>>142085341
>Burst Cutting Area is at the ring
Wait a minute are you trying to ruse me
Still remember the day I went to The Wiz in NYC and bought a MD player. I enjoyed it while it lasted.
>>142082054
>getting mad over the internet
>>142083148
>listening to meme music.
>142088162
Lurk infinitely before posting
>>142080581
it didn't fail - in Japan.
Molecular disruptor
>>142083254
Recommend me some good music, aniki>tfw only listening to anime and vidya music
>>142088344
Just go to /mu/ and do the exact opposite of everything they say.
>>1142088470
Do the opposite of what this anon sez, /mu/ is a terrible pissy dungeon of cacaphonic beardry
>>142080753
maybe she has tiny hands
>>142088573
>Do the opposite of what this anon sez
Don't go to /mu/ but do everything they say anyway?
>>142088698
Yes
>>142078079
Machi's Dick
