MiniDisc

[sunv]

I want to try out a minidisc player but I have never had any experience with them. Never even touched one.

If you want to put some mp3's onto a minidisc, do you have to have a special burner or just proceed like burning an ordinary CD?

Or do you have to analog record it or something like that? If you have had experience with them, could you please post here?

[ECA]

From what I have heard...
They are the Same as CD's just smaller.
You have to have a CD drive that TAKES them..

[LinkDJ]

There are two things you could be talking about:

1. Minidisc players are small audio players that use discs and are old and suck
2. Mini MP3CD players are small and play pocket cds with mp3s on them, and rule.

You can burn pockets cds on with any burner worth buying.

[ruri]

If you want to put some mp3's onto a minidisc

I believe you are confusing the minidisc with the 8cm CD format. Minidisc, those discs inside the plastic caddy that Sony developed, stored its audio data already compressed using Sony's proprietary (like most things sony ;) ATRAC format.

The 8cm CD is just a regular CD, but smaller. Just about all burner can record onto one. Open your burner's tray. You should see a small, 8cm diameter identation within the tray. If you do, your burner should support it as is.

[Ioman]

My take would be to take whichever format is the most adopted. Even if one format sounds better but is not as popular, I would not waste your money on that product.

[sunv]

Oops my bad
I was talking about those lil cd's.
What portable music player plays those?

[SponGeBoB]

any...

[sunv]

I saw this sony MD player and it said it could hold 4 cds on one MD. The questions is who would go and buy the cd's then copy them on MD to listen. Why not just buy a cd player?

Also how would you copy cd's onto an MD? Do you use a ripping program?

[ruri]

.The questions is who would go and buy the cd's then copy them on MD to listen. Why not just buy a cd player?

I think you answer your own question - because you can carry one small MD disc instead of 4+ CDs.


Also how would you copy cd's onto an MD? Do you use a ripping program?

No. Many MD players can record from their line-in connectors. The MD format uses Sony ATRAC compression algorithm so you could fit more music onto a smaller media.

MD came out before MP3 became popular. People bought it because of the small form factor - an MD player is about the size of a deck of card - and the fact that it could hold more music in such a small size.

Today, MP3 has made MD players obsolete. You don't find too many units being sold anymore.

[sunv]

Quote:

Many MD players can record from their line-in connectors. The MD format uses Sony ATRAC compression algorithm so you could fit more music onto a smaller media.

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Does this degrade the quality of the music?

[Unregistered]

i have one of the new NetMD players, and it is awesome. The thing with NetMD is that it connects to the USB so you can transfer the files onto the MD at up to 32x (I have yet to see that speed). There is a program that comes with it, where you can choose which songs to record, you can choose what their names will be (the display on all MD players have track names) and then you just press record and all the tracks are burned onto the MD (they are almost infinitely rewritable). Their are also the line-in, and mic ports. Hope you have success with whatever you buy, but for me, I love MD's.

(sorry if it sounded like an ad)