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Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by tylerchilds »

cybercase wrote: post #36

MiniDisc lover here. Great tutorial! For those of you who're still using MiniDiscs daily, I've just released a SonicStage replacement app that works in the browser thanks to WebUSB and WASM. Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/cybercase/webminidisc and here's a short demo of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frs8qhw0g9Y Hope you like it!

I'm so excited to try this out, thank you so much for building it!

Halfway through the video, we were just about done and then you did it on a phone! Great work and great demo!

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by paines »

paines wrote: post #38
cybercase wrote: post #36

MiniDisc lover here. Great tutorial! For those of you who're still using MiniDiscs daily, I've just released a SonicStage replacement app that works in the browser thanks to WebUSB and WASM. Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/cybercase/webminidisc and here's a short demo of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frs8qhw0g9Y Hope you like it!

LOVE IT! Thanks a bunch mate. Works like a charm. Used: https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/ Cannot compile it, cause npm is fucked and and my nodejs fu is meh....

I just downloaded a whole album, 1h:09m long via Youtube-Notube->m4a. Uploaded the m4a via https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/. Works perfectly... Thanks again

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by cybercase »

paines wrote: post #42
paines wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOVE IT! Thanks a bunch mate. Works like a charm. Used: https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/ Cannot compile it, cause npm is fucked and and my nodejs fu is meh....

I just downloaded a whole album, 1h:09m long via Youtube-Notube->m4a. Uploaded the m4a via https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/ . Works perfectly... Thanks again

Happy everything worked well for you.

Actually, building this app was a lot of fun :)

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by cybercase »

tylerchilds wrote: post #41
cybercase wrote: post #36

MiniDisc lover here. Great tutorial! For those of you who're still using MiniDiscs daily, I've just released a SonicStage replacement app that works in the browser thanks to WebUSB and WASM. Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/cybercase/webminidisc and here's a short demo of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frs8qhw0g9Y Hope you like it!

I'm so excited to try this out, thank you so much for building it! Halfway through the video, we were just about done and then you did it on a phone! Great work and great demo!

Thanks! Happy you enjoyed the demo :)

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

cat199 wrote: post #40
Twirrim wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a few mini-disc players in the late 90s. I had about an hour commute in to work in those days and it was awesome not to lug around tapes or the shock sensitive, constantly skipping, CD Walkman. I managed to find a fairly cheap "all-in-one" hifi that had a minidisc drive in it too, so transferring was easy, but lacked the track naming, and it would only transfer at 1.5x speed. Those minidisc players took a bit o…

> the equipment involved in recording to it was so expensive it was hard to get the labels on-board. Source or speculation? If b, then, to add: I don't think for a major (or even medium/minor) label this was the issue - at the time the labels had a real concern about mass high quality digital copying by consumers destroying their business

I was a young guy getting started in the music industry around this time... At the first studio I worked at, we used MiniDiscs all the time to do professional audio work. It was often the way we stored productions and the way we distributed them to other partners.

That said, any sort of mass production of MiniDiscs for the consumer would have been laughed away due to the costs.

> mass high quality digital copying by consumers

This has likely been a facet of the music industry's concerns ever since the cassette tape[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio#Dat...

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by wil421 »

satysin wrote: post #16

This brings back some great memories from 2002. My daughter had just been born and when I was up doing the night feeds I used my PlayStation 2 with its optical out to transfer my CDs onto my MiniDisc player. It was a slow process (real time) but it was so great to have all the track details automatically included rather than having to manually name the tracks on the player. This was before Sony's NetMD software and I…

If you had MiniDiscs spread all over your desk you had to be some cool hacker.

Around a similar time I bought my first MP3 player with a 16MB sd card. I think I could fit 3.5 MP3 songs on there and I had to figure out a way to edit one song so they could fit.

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by throwanem »

jasonjayr wrote: post #37
satysin wrote: post #16

This brings back some great memories from 2002. My daughter had just been born and when I was up doing the night feeds I used my PlayStation 2 with its optical out to transfer my CDs onto my MiniDisc player. It was a slow process (real time) but it was so great to have all the track details automatically included rather than having to manually name the tracks on the player. This was before Sony's NetMD software and I…

IIRC MiniDisc was big in Japan when it came out, and a lot of artists draw on that 90s-era Japanese aesthetic projected into the future. A lot of cyberpunk art features devices that look and function like MiniDisc devices + discs.

A lot of vaporwave/synthwave and adjacent artists do limited minidisc releases for the aesthetic, too. Nobody's pressing them any more, but there's a UK company whose name I forget that does mass copying and UV label printing on rewritable blanks.

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by paulmd »

cat199 wrote: post #40
Twirrim wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a few mini-disc players in the late 90s. I had about an hour commute in to work in those days and it was awesome not to lug around tapes or the shock sensitive, constantly skipping, CD Walkman. I managed to find a fairly cheap "all-in-one" hifi that had a minidisc drive in it too, so transferring was easy, but lacked the track naming, and it would only transfer at 1.5x speed. Those minidisc players took a bit o…

> the equipment involved in recording to it was so expensive it was hard to get the labels on-board. Source or speculation? If b, then, to add: I don't think for a major (or even medium/minor) label this was the issue - at the time the labels had a real concern about mass high quality digital copying by consumers destroying their business

this is specifically the reason minidisc is built around a lossy compression codec so there would be at least some generational loss from copying.

Sony themselves were/are a label and this led to deliberate worsening of their electronics at times.

Re: Dumping MiniDisc Media

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Post by bredren »

I had a very nice minidisc player / recorder I imported from japan around 2001. It cost a fortune. I think I still have it and the minidiscs somewhere but not a clue where.
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