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Man i loved my MD player, i remember thinking in-line remote with the shirt clip was so cool.

Looking back, it was pretty hilarious that transferring songs to the disc was real time (ie 70 minutes to transfer 70 minutes of audio). I really had nothing better to do...



They fixed it in later hardware revisions with NetMD allowing faster than realtime digital downloading, but the software was terrible. There's amazingly been an opensource project slowly iterating and adding functionality to do so in the current age: https://wiki.physik.fu-berlin.de/linux-minidisc/


amazing. if only i remembered where my mini disc was...




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