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.

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?

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