I got back from a vacation to Japan a couple weeks ago. I have visited many times before and seen most of the popular touristy stuff, so I decided that this trip would to some of the areas that get skipped by most foreign visitors, which also made it a good opportunity to find some cheap MD gear.

After a single trip to Hard Off, my friend was totally on-board with finding more locations and seeing whatever weird old electronics they had. We ended up browsing maybe 10 different locations around Kanazawa, Tsuruga, Uji, Takamatsu, and more. I bought most of the sealed blank MDs that we came across (there weren't many).

By far my best find was the Denon recorder deck (with optical out) for somewhere around $40USD. I opened it up and everything looked to be in very good condition and it powered on and played without any work needed.

There are still deals to be found out there. I passed on a tested, working Onkyo MD-133 Hi-MD deck that was selling for around $300USD. I sort of regret that now. lol

Hey all!

Curious if it’s possible to retrofit an old Toyota combo player like this to be a desktop unit?

It would need some kind of conversion for both power and audio out but I don’t think that’s impossible and is probably fairly trivial to do?

Has anyone done this before?

this is a genuine thing I found at Goodwill today

Sony MDS-JE520
Sony CDP-991
Pioneer A400x

Hello everyone! Long time listener, first time caller here (sorry, I’m old), and I’m curious if anyone has any experience with the JVC XM-PJ1 player? Years ago my brother gave me one for some reason that’s been lost to time (I think someone had given it to him but he already had a much nicer one, so he passed it along to me), but as I had no minidiscs to play, I just tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it. At some other point in time, I had opened the box and took everything out, and I guess I never put it back in the box, and over the years I forgot about it again. Fast forward to a few minutes ago and I was going through an old file cabinet (that doesn’t hold files, but became a sort of catch-all for random stuff) and came across this foil bag, and I had no clue what it was, so I ripped it open to find this minidisc player that has never even been turned on or had the battery inserted or anything.

My question is (and mods, I’m sorry if this isn’t allowed in the sub), since I don’t have the original box, is there any point in even keeping it in the other packaging? I’ve still got the battery and (I believe) all the other accessories and such buried in this same drawer (the battery was right beside it, and it’s never been opened, but I recall seeing the other bits in their respective plastic baggies along the way), so I think I’ve probably got a complete and unused player, but I’ve got absolutely no use for it. I’m assuming if I wanted to sell it, it’s probably best to actually open everything, see if the battery holds a charge, etc, but I don’t have any minidiscs to check to see if it plays, but is there any value in keeping it sealed (well, except that I opened the foil package to see what it actually was)? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I’m not trying to sell it on here, regardless whether that’s against the rules of the sub, I’m just looking for guidance since I have no way to properly test it without an actual minidisc (I never got into them, but if anyone has an old DAT player kicking around, I’d LOVE to revive my old radio airchecks from three decades ago!!!).

So, yeah, uh…. Thoughts?

I have been looking for a hardcase for a while, my Gym bag doesn't have a good place to store it so it was always floating around in it.

Now I found this on Amazon, fits well for the player, headphones and extra batterie. Also pretty cheap, I'm satisfied with it.

MZ-R90

I prefer listen music like this than streaming apps.

My next step is DAT, WMD-DT1 - Shinji's one.

Found in a box with 11 discs. Strap was shot but everything else is in perfect working order and the sound is great

Next Discs to transfer…

So, I'm 20 and got into cassettes back in lockdown. This year I ventured out from tapes, CDs etc into MiniDisc. I built a hifi out of separate components. My CD deck is the Sony CDP-XE310 and the minidisc deck is the Sony MDS-JE510. Now I got the CD player because it was a bargain and it did work perfectly when I first got it. I thought it was an amazing bonus it had that big sticker on the front saying "Optical Digital Out for MD"

I can control the CD deck via the MiniDisc remote when both are powered on, and obviously when recording CDs to MDs it auto sets the recording level and adds track markers.

Recently my CD deck has been acting up and I believe it's beyond my capabilities to repair which isn't a big loss since it was quite inexpensive. However my question is, if I bought another Sony CD deck with optical out. Would I have the same features (using MD remote to control it, auto audio level set etc)

Probably goes without learning for some people more meticulous than I, but after purchasing players (versus portable recorders), BATTERY LIFE

I got this SJ-SW9MD because I loved the design and the neat wrist/arm strap that came with it. Seemed like the perfect, sturdy, commute-to-work player.

It uses a ni-mh gumstick battery. These. Things. Suck. I think I get like 5 hours if the battery stays in the player? I’ve been taking it out when I arrive to work now to try and save on power. Even with investing in a higher quality charger that can measure voltage, leak, discharge etc, it’s a hassle to manage these batteries.

Definitely will consider battery life of later plays who could more efficiently run on the gumsticks, or better yet AAs (like my NF610, but I don’t wanna take the recorder everywhere and risk damaging the write head).

Best players for battery life v aesthetic v function v sound quality?

Greetings from Chile

Got this new in 1999. It's a little worse for wear, and I can't find the headphone remote, but it's still going strong.

Sound quality through my Sennheiser Momentum 4s is just as good as lossless M4As from my iPad.

I used to have a tonne of minidiscs, and a car minidisc head unit, but they got stolen from my car circa 2002. 😢 Now I just have one disc, with On The Night by Dire Straits.

Hey peeps, decided to grab a second hand minidisc. Cant seem to get anything going on it.

Ive tried Web Minidisc with no success. Ive installed Zadig drivers for windows 11. Recived a couole of error messages which could offer some insight. "RequestDevicr on USB: Must be handling a user gesture to show a permission request" and "libusb_error_not_supported"

Now windows sees it as a mass storage drive and i am able to add and remove files through windows. Ive copied a WAV file on but the walkman simply didnt see it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated 😊

Anthrax MDs
1990’s Persistence of Time and 2026’s Cursum Perficio

I was hunting for MD players but had no luck but found some sealed MDs I didn’t get the Maxell 10packs cuz most of my discs are clear so I got the black Sony shock absorb ones and of course I had to buy all three 😄

Ghost MDs

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