Coreda
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Very nice.
Anyone know of a userscript to bypass Flickr's new layout? I usually select all then paste to a text document, right click the file and View Package contents to extract. There has to be an easier way.
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Very nice.
Anyone know of a userscript to bypass Flickr's new layout? I usually select all then paste to a text document, right click the file and View Package contents to extract. There has to be an easier way.
I still have all my md's and players.
I bought one that was only 47 grams or something like that without the battery and disc. That shit was amazing. Also it would last for around 70 to 80 hours or even 100 hours with the added battery pack.
I still love that thing. Also the remote control was perfect with the screen and buttons. I still believe the PSP should have supported md's.
I bought one that was only 47 grams or something like that without the battery and disc. That shit was amazing. Also it would last for around 70 to 80 hours or even 100 hours with the added battery pack.
I still love that thing. Also the remote control was perfect with the screen and buttons. I still believe the PSP should have supported md's.
show me your skeleton
Member
those MDs are beautiful. they look so retro-futuristic, like something an eighties anime would depict us using.
i bought a sony 'netmd' player around 2002ish and i remember it took fucking f o r e v e r to put music on a md and also had the slowest sony software known to mankind. in australia at least the md's were also super expensive so i kept rotating the same 3 or so. looked great though and stable as a rock compared to years of huge shitty discmans.
Whoa I totally forgot I used MiniDiscs as a teenager. I was really fascinated by the technology back then. Smaller than CDs, yet they hold as many songs, even the small portable devices could be used as recorders and the MDs itself were so robust because of the plastic housing (that looked cool as we see in the OP). I had dozens of MDs, each filled with one single album. I even printed small album covers for those little separate cases.
My first MD player was my most expensive purchase back then:
It looked so... modern! Half of the enclosure was made of aluminium and a remote was included. Oh and it had a really prominent bulg on the back for the battery. Sadly, it eventually stopped working and I bought this as a replacement:
This was much more of a budget device, but still got its job done.
I still remember Sony announcing net MD, but at this time I abandoned the medium for mp3 players. I was a bit disappointed that MDs took never really over, because it was such a great technology for its time.
My first MD player was my most expensive purchase back then:
It looked so... modern! Half of the enclosure was made of aluminium and a remote was included. Oh and it had a really prominent bulg on the back for the battery. Sadly, it eventually stopped working and I bought this as a replacement:
This was much more of a budget device, but still got its job done.
I still remember Sony announcing net MD, but at this time I abandoned the medium for mp3 players. I was a bit disappointed that MDs took never really over, because it was such a great technology for its time.
PetriP-TNT
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Minidiscs were the bees knees, :salut:
I had this player.
I bought one instead of an mp3 player at the time because of how tiny the capacity was on those players, compared to cost. I loved mine, except for how recording songs to a disc was just like recording to tape. If it had been easier to transfer mp3s to MD, earlier on, the format might've lasted longer.
Yeah, MD was evolving pretty quickly towards the end, at the same time as the first mp3 players were coming out. If they'd have been a bit more PC friendly they might have survived longer..
Gonna check in the loft, see if I still have any. What are my options for transferring to PC? Just headphone out/mic in like with cassettes?
Coreda
Member
You can download stuff.
Thank you so much, must have missed it before.
Save Images extension works a treat on Firefox. Saves anything and everything.
killer rin
Member
I still remember having these back in the day. Not exactly Mini-disks, but they are miniature disks
ganbareneopokekun
Member
i had an mzrh1 and sold it .. damn 
So much this...I loved my player to death, such great sound and a great format....
same here. it was awesome.
bean breath
Member
I wonder if you guys share the same fondness for UMD movies.
My MD player, I think still have it somewhere. Those were the good times.
Had this one, and still feel more tingly nostalgic excited feelings when looking at that than any other piece of gadgetry owned in the past.
Dreams-Visions
Member
So much this...I loved my player to death, such great sound and a great format....
had it, loved it.
used it until the ejector stopped working. I still have my Fugees MiniDisc somewhere.
Taco_Human
Member
My older brother had one of these. I should ask him if he still has it around...
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Such a classy product!
I still miss backlit LCD remotes, and magnesium casings to this day, some things will just never be beat.
I had two of these:
I still miss backlit LCD remotes, and magnesium casings to this day, some things will just never be beat.
I had two of these:
I had this one...
I think I got it around '99 or so.
and then I was going to upgrade. I asked for a new one, I think Christmas 2002. Last second I had my Mom return it to Best Buy and got a 2G iPod. I think that one had 20 GB. Mini Discs are cool but I'm glad I made that decision.
I think I got it around '99 or so.
and then I was going to upgrade. I asked for a new one, I think Christmas 2002. Last second I had my Mom return it to Best Buy and got a 2G iPod. I think that one had 20 GB. Mini Discs are cool but I'm glad I made that decision.
shoplifter
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Fond memories of being a student in Japan. Went to Geo almost every night to rent CDs and promptly ripped them to MD. My now dead Sony player still sits on my bookshelf.
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I have yet to delve into this part of MD culture, but last I checked there were shareware apps that use the netmd protocol/sync mechanism. Though from what I know the last me player, the mzrh1 just allows you to drag and drop off the minidisc to a computer, which is insane to me. As far as I remember back in the early millennium there was no way to take files off a netmd and on to a computer, it was one way only and transcoded to atrac3.
Technosteve
Banned
why were mini disc players popular? when i was in highschool only the rich kids had them, but they were completely supersede by the mp3 discman. I remember that you had to convert mp3 to atrac 4 with sony's terrible software.
adamsappel
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I love minidisc! I wish it had lasted longer. At the time, it was superior to MP3 players. I loved the Sharp 702 player, which had the slot design (rather than clamshell). I eventually bought a spare. The Sony portable came with my home deck, which I really should hook up again. I loved all the compilations I made, even if the recording process was slow and tedious. It was especially suited for live recordings, because you could easily edit out dead air or bad performances. I even bought a few retail pressings. I still would love a car player.
Some interesting disk types
Players
Compilations
I was a big fan of UMD, quid. I didn't have any way to rip DVDs at the time, so I had a lot of them. I think I was the only one keeping the format alive. Sorry, everyone! They were pretty easy to find at around $5 apiece, and even after I'd moved on to other formats I was still collecting the odd one. Finally I realized they were just collecting dust and gave them all to some kid, along with all sorts of accessories.
Some interesting disk types
Players
Compilations
I was a big fan of UMD, quid. I didn't have any way to rip DVDs at the time, so I had a lot of them. I think I was the only one keeping the format alive. Sorry, everyone! They were pretty easy to find at around $5 apiece, and even after I'd moved on to other formats I was still collecting the odd one. Finally I realized they were just collecting dust and gave them all to some kid, along with all sorts of accessories.
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Well Minidiscs have been around since '92.. at which point they were EXTREMELY convenient and offered infinite benefits over CD and Cassette. After a decade they introduced the NETMD format which ALSO offered a GIGANTIC convenience over competing MP3 players.
They were just extremely versatile. For the time they were impressively tiny, they offered all the benefits of cassette (cheap, durable could record onto them at a moments notice) AND they had all the benefits of digital media like CDs (great sound quality, track marks, seeking) AND THEN they approximated the fully digital MP3 experience in a great way (with tons of storage). Sure the Sony software was pretty much garbage but it wasn't worse than musicmatch jukebox or whatever apple shipped with their windows iPods they'd introduce years later.
victreeb3l
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Man I loved my MD player back in high school. The discs themselves were gorgeous, and how some of them had cool designs and stuff. Good stuff.
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Deleted member 22576
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HOLY FUCK there were minidisco.com branded minidiscs?!?!?! And you have one!?!?!?! I used to cruise that site on the daily.
adamsappel
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minidisco.com was such a great site and they did have their own logo'd discs at the end. Every so often I would splurge on a fancy design, and then it was a matter of deciding which artist was worthy of it.
When my PSP came with Spider-Man 2, man that was the shit.
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Deleted member 22576
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Wanna give them to me?
Whoa whoa whoa guys. UMDs are baaaaaaad. Lets not go crazy here.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Which deck are you selling? Could certainly use something higher end than my only working model - MZ-N420D
ClivePwned
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In around 93 or 94, I bought myself one of these as a way of keeping high quality recordings of my early attempts at making music and sound effects, and as a way of recording reasonably high-quality versions of TV themes off of hifi vhs recordings.
I looked at a cheaper Digital Compact Cassette player but the fact you could edit your recordings ( you could split and join tracks, at the cost of total run time).
I loved it.
I looked at a cheaper Digital Compact Cassette player but the fact you could edit your recordings ( you could split and join tracks, at the cost of total run time).
I loved it.
Robot Pants
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I enjoyed my time with minidiscs
It's easy to break flickrs image DRM. Hell, they called the class "facade-of-protection-neue"
Use Safari, diable styles. http://foliovision.com/2010/11/download-flickr-images
As for mini disk players, never had one, always wanted one. They reminded me of the mini cassette player I had in one of my Transformers.
Use Safari, diable styles. http://foliovision.com/2010/11/download-flickr-images
As for mini disk players, never had one, always wanted one. They reminded me of the mini cassette player I had in one of my Transformers.
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Conceptually I'm really into the Microcassette, but its just not very practical for everyday use. However, the novelty is considerable.
Petit Melon
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I loved loved loved my minidisc player. Then I dropped it, broke it, and couldn't find a replacement player. Sad times.
That's the model I had except it was in silver. THe Hi-Fi I still use also can play MDs, so it was easy to record from CD to MD. I didn't mind the recording method as it did allow you to capture songs that would be much harder with MP3 conversion, for example, I recorded all the music in THPS2 just leaving the game on pause and letting it play all the songs.
Shame my portable player just skipping. Weirdly it would record just fine but it couldn't play anything for more than three seconds without stuttering. Still has a pile of blank MDs as a result.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
I used to have these long time ago lol. Back in 99?
My MD player, I think still have it somewhere. Those were the good times.
Am pretty sure this is the same model I had!
Cant find a pic of it, but used to have an Aiwa stereo with a cd player and minidisc slot that allowed me to record CD music onto the minidiscs was so awesome and fairly compact.
Oppo
Member
So much this...I loved my player to death, such great sound and a great format....
I had this guy. It kicked ass.
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