@conanthewarrior don't know if your md is the same format as the one I used to have but I used to have to convert all my music to atrac format using the sonic stage software to get more music on the disc and that was a total pain in the arse tbh and sound quality suffered .
I'll be honest and say it's not worth the hassle imo .
Mini disc sounded great with uncompressed discs but Sony mdlp was just too much like hard work when atrac was unsupported by pretty much anything else
On the other hand I still use my old 16gb Sony mp3 player all the time which is tiny and the sound pisses over any phone and the battery lasts for weeks
View attachment 264717Yep that’s the format mate and you are correct on it using ATRAC format for lossy compression for LP2 and LP4.
The few mixtapes I found actually sound good and one is only 30 minutes so it may have been recorded using optical or was not compressed into the LP format.
I studied to become a sound engineer and producer at the British academy of new music, and I haven’t listened through my studio monitors but using either the sennheiser HD25 I-II or Audio technica MH50Xs they sound quite good, and they are far from bad headphones.
I gather if it was LP2 or LP4 it would sound quite awful by today’s standards (apart from something that has been brick walled with harsh clipping- there’s some artists using that now as an effect, intentionally Clipping into the DAW for vocals and even instruments.)
What model player do you own? I may try and find an old IPod classic and stick a portable headphone amp on it
I will look into that player thank you mate.https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/sony-walkman-nwz-s639f-16gb
That's the old mp3 player I've got , used with a pair of sennheiser m2 in ears sounds awesome and very loud.
The killer for my minidisc was having to convert to atrac _ absolute pain in the arse . When with mp3 it's just drag and drop. You might have better luck if your converting from lossles or original audio but converting from mp3 to atrac is just pointless and a waste of time
To my ears ipods don't sound anywhere near as good as the Sony. There's so many different sound settings you can get it sounding exactly how you like it.
Just had a quick look on ebay and the sonys still go for decent money .
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I just found this in my draw, brings back a lot of memory’s, and the battery is still working! God knows how.
Have some strange mix tape in there at the moment, but who remember mini disc?
I’m not even sure if I could transfer songs to it now, but was proud as it could do the 4 times length- at a lower bit rate but made me happy it could hold that much music on one disc!
Think I am going to use this as long as there is still a way to transfer. I could use the studio and record through line in but that means playing the whole thing to record and hope it doesn’t clip or go wrong:
Anyone else found anything that’s made them smile lately from years before?
I've always wondered about the Internet sites that allowed for downloading music for free, or theft as its called. The scale of cassette copying was huge when I was a kid, I must have made 50 copies of Pink Floyd The Wall for my mates, all off of a copy from my step dad's Vinyl. Was the scale of Internet down loads really that much larger than cassette copying or was it just easier to control? Genuine question.Loved the colours of minidisks, came out about the time I was busy stealing music from the internet. Preferred C90s though tbh.
Rather than taping an album for a mate, I was able to access everything I ever wanted to listen to - and more besides. I downloaded entire discographies, films, TV series, and comics by the containerload.I've always wondered about the Internet sites that allowed for downloading music for free, or theft as its called. The scale of cassette copying was huge when I was a kid, I must have made 50 copies of Pink Floyd The Wall for my mates, all off of a copy from my step dad's Vinyl. Was the scale of Internet down loads really that much larger than cassette copying or was it just easier to control? Genuine question.