MiniDisc anyone?

suddy · Post by **suddy** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:53 pm

Thinking of getting shut of my CD player and going MD.
Is it a wise move?

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:59 pm

I thought minidiscs never took off?

LASEROWL · Post by **LASEROWL** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:03 pm

Like Chris says minidisc never really took off, but if you make up your own compilations there gr8 in the car, no skipping or jumping.

Mrs laserowl inherited my Sony Minidisc for her Paris Blue & it sounded fine on our trip up tio scotland.

I went for a Kenwood MP3 CD head unit with Aux input for my car PC.

Also I must add the compactness of minidisc is very handy.

suddy · Post by **suddy** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:04 pm

they still make the recorder machines and the discs to go in them so i think theres a bit of time for them left.
its only that ive got a loads of LP's and its dead easy to put them on MD, rather than doing all that computer burning CD's malarky, to put them on a CD.

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:44 pm

I had the mini disc on both home unit and portable, not bad sound but never took off.

pita if you want to copy cd - mini discs and it's already on CD.

pita if you want to copy mp3 to mini disc

pita full stop.

shame because all that gear cost me lots of money new.

I got the Kenwoord blah blah mp3 player and so far I not made track 144 play on the same trip.

lee · Post by **lee** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:13 pm

[/quote]I got the Kenwoord blah blah mp3 player and so far I not made track 144 play on the same trip.

That because you never drive far enough!!!!

Before now i have listen to my 12 disk cd changer plus an MP3 cd!!!!

MiniDisks are good. But i would stick to cd/dvd

LANTIN · Post by **LANTIN** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:30 pm

What's the main advantage of minidisks against homemade CD-R (CD-RW) loaded with music tracks or MP3's ?

lee · Post by **lee** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:40 pm

size and less likely to jump.

MGB_GT · Post by **MGB_GT** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:17 pm

Not forgetting use of the LP function (assuming you have compatible equipment) and you can fit around 5 hours of music on one disk. Not to mention MD's are far more practial on the move, easier to store, less easy to break blah blah. Did I mention both my cars are running on MD?

If they had never made Minidiscs, I wouldn't have ever upgraded from Tapes.

Plus, record all your CD's onto blank discs, if the worst happens (car knicked) you don't loose all your CD's, just some disks you can replace. And you don't wear out your CD's either!

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:20 pm

I've done the exact same thing with CD-r's, for the exact same reasons, especially since i have some stuff that would be hard to replace, limited editions of already rare stuff etc. added bonus if i want to listen to something at home i don't need to traipse out to the car.

Breeze · Post by **Breeze** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:53 am

Wouldn't bother with minidisc myself. Better off getting an IPod and one of the new Alpine units, just plug it in and away you go.

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:19 am

I stuck all my albums onto mp3

suddy · Post by **suddy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:19 pm

well im well chuffed with it now. easy to put you Records/CDs/Tapes on Minidisc, needle on the record and press record on the MD, dead easy. no faffing about with computers or anything, just plug in and go....

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:20 pm

remeber line out from pc to line in on recorder and you can get your mp3's on the MD.

480_rocket · Post by **480_rocket** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:43 pm

If you get a Sony MD you can connect to a PC via USB and use some program to transfer music to the MD. Doesn't work the other way though, unless they fixed it by now.

MGB_GT · Post by **MGB_GT** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:59 pm

Sony software = Useless. There are a few good ways round it though. Fool your computer into thinking you are copying a CD. (Use Nero's Drive Image function). Put all the MP3's you want to copy on this drive, computer thinks it's a CD not MP3's. Then use the US software for Sony MD (availible online somewhere) which just copies from CD to MD. Sounds more complicated than it is really.

480_rocket · Post by **480_rocket** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:47 pm

The difficulty was more getting music off the MD onto a PC. I used to use MD to record live music (bands etc) and soon found out i couldn't get the music off it!

rpruen · Post by **rpruen** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:18 pm

Getting music onto the PC from MD is easy, just hook it up to the optical input on the soundcard.

Unfortunatly most MD recorders are a bit lame as well, or at least used to be. Everything is fine if you record the MD via the optical link from a PC, but the built in recording wasn't very special. They also use a lossy compression that's not ideal if you want to process the audio afterwards.

Richard