As someone who was all-in on MiniDisc in the early 2000s, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s a strange format. MiniDisc never really challenged formats like CD, cassette, and vinyl as a ...

RIP MiniDisc, 1992-2013. Sony's MiniDisc line has finally come to an end. Find out why I loved mine in 1998.

The Japanese company launched the MiniDisc in 1992. For younger readers, that was the year of the Maastrict treaty, Windows 3.1 and Lethal Weapon 3. For older readers, it's when Miley Cyrus was born.

I got my hands on some pro Minidisc hardware in the 2000s, and really loved the format, except for one glaring weakness. There wasn’t a way to dump the audio data to a computer.

I understand that, but Sony isn't the only one making minidisc players/recorders. And even Sony has a player with digital out, but it is a component one (I'd rather buy a Teac one though, it can ...

MiniDisc was launched in 1992, but never saw widespread success outside of Japan. Its rise in the West was stymied by the existing popularity of the CD and the growth of the MP3 format and its ...

The MiniDisc might have remained in obscurity—as would have a number of Radiohead gems, like an 11-minute version of “Paranoid Android” that was in the stash.

MiniDisc Walkmen are famously compact devices, so adding a full circuit board to one wasn’t easy. [Daniel] managed to squeeze the PCB from a Schosche wireless audio transmitter inside the ...

Thanks to enthusiasts at minidisc.wiki, you can still add songs to a MiniDisc from a modern computer using its web app. Which means we live in a world where a Pixel 9 Pro can talk to a MiniDisc ...