Are Mini Discs the way forwards?

Are Mini Discs the way forwards?

Cos i had my first player in 1997, and i could record to it, but i hardly ever used it, as the only thing u could really copy from then was cd... now i ve got a net md job, and finally i ve decided to go back to using md, instead of burning cds, got really pissed off with my cd writer, cos itburnt about 1 in 4 cds, the rest i threw away...

Anyone else switched to md?

MD is very good, but I still prefer CD. I don't think MD will take over cos no1 buys pre-recorded MDs, but for stuff like DJs recording live sets its pretty useful and much better than recording onto tape (if u have no equipment for CD burning). Also, size makes MD much better for travelling round.

net md is greatest thing ever... well maybes not.. but there class

mine takes ages to convert the mp3 though the transferring is quick though

I have just got a minidisc player and all be it an old one its ok and does the job !

I have a lack of Trance tho so if anyones got any decent T that they would copy for me then feel free to offer

i agree with juski, now flash media and that sort of stuff is around, you won't need disks and such fussy things like that in a few years. more and more equipment is coming out with built in storage facilities, like hard disks for the PS2, Sky plus with built in upgradable hard disks and now i was looking at a MP3 player for the car with a 20 gig drive in.

i just bought myself an IBM 80gig for £70 brand new. that any good?

i use minidiscs a lot but they wont replace cds ever i dont think!!

they're much too expensive!

but they ll get cheaper like blank cds did

CD Vs MD...

I took this from an old assignment, I hope it helps.

Stereo Minidisc
a) Magneto-optical disc storage.
b) Random access playback enables the MD to find areas to store material and tack a number to the existing TOC.
c) Records 74 minute's maximum in stereo or 148 in mono.

Minidisc recorders may suffer disrupted data if the machine is jostled or placed on a vibrating surface during recording.
As you cannot make a perfect digital copy, due to generational loss in every decompress/compress cycle, the user might seek a recording medium that gives greater reproduction stability i.e. CDR

CDR
a) High quality recorder.
b) Download sound files from the Internet, convert them to WAV's and burn them to CD's without any quality loss.
c) Variable write speeds.
d) Lifespan. A CDR disc, if cared for correctly, will last between 100-300 years, according to manufacturers.
e) CD players are everywhere.
f) CDR's can be easily integrated with existing studio equipment.

CDR discs scratch easily, they should be protected when not in use at all times. Since DAT has a slightly higher sampling rate than CDR technology, a DAT machine might be chosen as a secondary recording medium.

Cheapest I've seen big hard drives for is on ebuyer.com - 120Gb for 85 quid inc.

I got an Odyssey1000 (like an Apple iPod, but it has 20Gb for the price of the 10Gb iPod) and it is seriously the best thing that I have ever bought. I've currently got about 12 gig of trance and 5 gig of other assorted music (for when I'm in the mood for a bit of reggae or something else).

I've got a couple of MD players in the house, but they very rarely get used cos I keep everything as MP3 and just stick them on a CDRW if I need to.

md's sometimes distort sounds too, thats why u don't see too many of the pre-recorded ones about, apparently.

an my last player fukked up after a year so i'm gonna stick wi my laptop an cds from now on, much easier

shite. an extra 43 gig for £18.

MD's are hardly the way forward! They are ancient in technology terms!

Mini disks are very delicate and compress the audio before it goes to disk (like MP3) this reduces sound quality... so if you copy a CD to a MD you are not getting a perfect copy, the MD is inferior... making MD useless to a high end system.

The future of Audio is DVD or a close relation to,

DVD audio enables you have loads of channels of music, unlike the 2 speaker STEREO that we are all used to......... you could have say a classical music DVD playing....with NINE different speakers (like surround sound systems) playing different sounds from EACH instrument giving the next best thing for your ears to the real thing. All this can come from the one DVD disk.


Back to MD though....... I use MD as a alternative to Tape and I also use it as my portable music format. It is perfect for this or even in car music. I like it because its so easy to cut and paste and chop and change the music.... its also quite cheap and easy.