I do not think the question was "is minidisc obsolete", it was whether or not it was useless. On the obsolescence front, well, of course it is to some extent, the main builder/designer has abandoned it and us. We all know this, it just is what it is. When I listen to music, I listen to music. I'm not ADHD, where I have to have a little movie screen so I can scroll through "album" art, play a game of pong, tweet my vapid friends with wifi what crappy boy band I'm listening to right then. For the purpose of listening to music, minidisc works absolutely fine. Not just fine, but better than any alternative for me. Of course, it's an older system built for us old fogies who remember taping our favorite songs off the radio (and not that satellite radio crap) and listening to them under the sheets on crappy quality headphones late at night, probably while reading a comic book. Or building a mix tape for your girlfriend or road trip. 90% of the pleasure derived was the careful song selection, cueing up the records or cds just right, labelling the cassette box and cassette. It wasn't just turning on "genius" mode in iTunes and copying that playlist to your ipod. Ever see an old Tube driven AM radio? Solid copper base, simple gates, usually a custom built wooden cabinet housing one speaker. Those radios are still going. I hold onto minidisc for the idea of permanence in a disposable world. What is an iPod nano at the end of its life? just more piece of recyclable 200 dollar crap. When your MD player goes bad, your music is fine. Jut buy another player. Well, at least that is the plan.
Morning rant over, assume your regular programming.
Minidisc a "useless gadget"
Started by MikeRofone, Jul 16 2008 02:27 AM
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 04:20 PM
If you try to introduce logic to analyzing love, infatuation, or passion, it's not necessarily going to apply. I suppose I could (any of us could) give reasons why we love MD.
I'm not going there. I'm happy enough just to be in this blissful state with it. Why do I love MD? Because I do. I just do.
I'm not going there. I'm happy enough just to be in this blissful state with it. Why do I love MD? Because I do. I just do.
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 06:18 PM
I completely agree with your sentiment, but here are a couple of things I do with my MD equipment which make it so convenient:If you try to introduce logic to analyzing love, infatuation, or passion, it's not necessarily going to apply. I suppose I could (any of us could) give reasons why we love MD.
I'm not going there. I'm happy enough just to be in this blissful state with it. Why do I love MD? Because I do. I just do.
1) With a few button presses I can set up my deck to record radio programmes for me while I'm away from the house. If they are speech based programmes, then using my RH1 or NH1 I can play them back at much-faster-than-real-time speed if I'm pushed for time. The recording also comes divided into handy sized tracks, rather than one long mp3. If I want to save the recording I can easily transfer it to my PC via my RH1.
2) I can set up one of my portables to record nearly 8 hours of music from an internet radio station overnight at Hi-MD quality. I can then play this back over the next couple of days while I'm working, and if there's a song I particularly like, I can put track marks at the beginning and end of it; transfer it to my PC; and then edit the resulting WAV file for fade in and fade out if necessary.
I'm not saying that these things can't be done using other equipment, but with Minidisc it's so easy.
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Posted 22 January 2010 - 11:03 AM
I completely agree with your sentiment, but here are a couple of things I do with my MD equipment which make it so convenient:
1) With a few button presses I can set up my deck to record radio programmes for me while I'm away from the house. If they are speech based programmes, then using my RH1 or NH1 I can play them back at much-faster-than-real-time speed if I'm pushed for time. The recording also comes divided into handy sized tracks, rather than one long mp3. If I want to save the recording I can easily transfer it to my PC via my RH1.
2) I can set up one of my portables to record nearly 8 hours of music from an internet radio station overnight at Hi-MD quality. I can then play this back over the next couple of days while I'm working, and if there's a song I particularly like, I can put track marks at the beginning and end of it; transfer it to my PC; and then edit the resulting WAV file for fade in and fade out if necessary.
I'm not saying that these things can't be done using other equipment, but with Minidisc it's so easy.
Well said.
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