My Minidiscs: Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

[RED SHIFT1]

Topic says it all...this was brought on by two things:

(1) The recent annoucement of the end of MD production by Sony

(2) The loss of my imported cds (hundreds) and thusly the loss of thousands of files after the external drive I was using got corrupted.

I know that #2 is not Sony's fault, but after reading about the end of production, I decided it was time to move into the 21st century. So I reformmated the external drive that I have been importing cds to over the last two years. In the next few days I will be putting my collection of recordable mds onto Ebay, along with the player and sofware for auction. My Ebay username is DRDOOMCOMICS. I will post the number, brands, and time-lengths of the discs, along with info about the player. I have both a portable and a home deck.

It has been a sweet ride with MDs since I bought the first player in 1999, but after the above recent events and I imagine it won't be long until Sony discontinues the remote connection to your databases, I decided it is time to mve on.

Feel free to bid if you wish.

[RED SHIFT1]

Topic says it all...this was brought on by two things:

(1) The recent annoucement of the end of MD production by Sony

(2) The loss of my imported cds (hundreds) and thusly the loss of thousands of files after the external drive I was using got corrupted.

I know that #2 is not Sony's fault, but after reading about the end of production, I decided it was time to move into the 21st century. So I reformmated the external drive that I have been importing cds to over the last two years. In the next few days I will be putting my collection of recordable mds onto Ebay, along with the player and sofware for auction. My Ebay username is DRDOOMCOMICS. I will post the number, brands, and time-lengths of the discs, along with info about the player. I have both a portable and a home deck.

It has been a sweet ride with MDs since I bought the first player in 1999, but after the above recent events and I imagine it won't be long until Sony discontinues the remote connection to your databases, I decided it is time to mve on.

Feel free to bid if you wish.

Here is what I will be posting on Ebay:

287 recordable minidiscs

NOTE: All mds have been recorded on. Erase them at your leisure. Each disc and slipcase probably have labels as well. A simple way to remove a face label is to soak a q-tip in WD 40 and rub it onto the face label until soaked. For the slipcase, lay it (remove disc!) on a paper towel and simply spray WD-40 on the label soaking it as well. Wait a few hours and then remove label. You may need to use rubbing alcohol or something like Goo Gone to remove any residue. Wipe it off and let it dry before relabeling.

Hardware & Accessories & Software

[Chickenvenus]

Sad to see you are moving away from the coolest format ever.

[PhilippeC]

I have lost 5 HDD since I live in Vietnam. None of my original Cds are upload on my computer. The only music I have on my computer is downloaded one and I swiftly copy it on CD Rom or DVD Rom or directly on MDs in real time. As everything is available on internet (torrent files), it is like clouding storage. I like to have something in my hand and even to take time to open a box. Every time I use my Ipod, I feel sad. I remember my young years when the only way to listen to pop and rock music was to buy the LP or to borrow it. At this time, few people in France listened to that kind of music (instead it was y

[PhilippeC]

Your story made me decided to catalog all my CDs audio, DVDs Flac audio files, DVD MP3 files with the freeware CDVista (www.gentibus.com). It take time as I have some hundreds discs.