Cool! I got a sony mz-r55 since 1998, and it still works great today, this format was great engineering. Do you remember what model you had? Looks like Toshiba is an undetected brand in the current knowledge of the format https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sorting/manufacturers could be useful to add that information! That’s the scope of this great wiki about MiniDisc! There’s a nice community behind that, luckily, is keeping the format more than alive with pure passion. would be nice to have them here on nostr, they are that punk that would fits well :)
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Damn. I can't find it either. I must be misremembering. Mine is long gone. Maybe it was a Sony.
No worries, time passed and MiniDisc never skyrocketed outside Japan, sadly. Also, there were “white label” devices that brands could buy readymade from some unknown companies and just print their name on and sell them. Don’t think Toshiba did that, they were toying with high density optical storage in the early 90s so probably they completely skipped MiniDisc iirc. The competition for digital in the 90s was amazing! Philips invented the dcc, a digital cassette where devices were backward compatible with the widely common analog cassettes but the information was digital. It was the Philips competitor of MiniDisc but failed badly because it was carrying the downsides of the tape while MiniDisc had the plus of the CD (ironically designed by Philips and Sony). And also the DAT was already there and with 100% lossless PCM.
I don't think he's active here anymore, but nostr:nprofile1qqswx0lxtu0au3xxmst7avu0mtg0e6h3et58ygyyxvhdrceyjc536sspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqmag6dx is big time into MD.
yeah MD is great
We summoned him!
Love to find another connoisseur! Let’s share the passion and the experiences with the media!
😍😍😍 you’re my nostr hero now! Omg what a collection: RH1 (for many the holy grail) in both colors, two NH1, two EH1 and two NH3D all with their docks… plus all those sealed discs, included the Hi-MDs (of course since your devices are all Hi-MD compatible) and the super rare MD2000… Man keep them more secure than your 12 words, I’m feeling jealous right now! 😂😂😂 👌🏼💯
Do all the devices work? What about the RH1 displays?
Yeah mine work, but I heard there was this Sony MP3 player that used the same OLED display that you could gut and replace
Wow two RH1 with the original displays still working, real gems! Btw no need for sony mp3 devices to mutilate, thanks to the incredible work of Sir68k today we have the best OLED replacements on earth: https://sir68k.re/rh1/ The MiniDisc community is really talented and goes beyond what’s possible! He’s also working on firmware mods for displaying track titles on the OLEDS since Sony inexplicably didn’t do it… Sony being Sony as usual… here’s the last update to the mods:
## MZ-RH1 firmware mods progress / wishlist
### Visuals / additional UI:
- ☑️ Track name / Group name / Disc name display
- ✅ Prototype
- 🟦 Extend available display items instead of replacing
- ✅ Find safe memory area
- ✅ Get track name directly
- ✅ Get group name / disc name
- 🟦 Menu system for for advanced config
- 🟦 Options for CFW
- 🟦 Destination / Errors / …
- 🟦 OLED Brightness / Disable OLED during USB connection
- 🟦 Memory editor / dump mem to file
- 🟦 Sign disc
- 🟦 File browser for HiMD -> read text file / exec binary files?
### Audio playback:
- 🟦 Direct media playback for .mp3 .wav …
- 🟦 Playback options in menu: shuffle, random, …
### NetMD:
- 🟦 Remove MD->PC protection schemes
- 🟦 Speed up NetMD writes
- 🟦 Speed up NetMD check-out
- 🟦 Direct pcm -> mono/lp2/lp4 upload
- 🟦 Automatic USB driver selection / WinUSB using proper descriptor
- 🟦 HiMD over NetMD
### Advanced:
- 🟦 Probably impossible: Tetris / Graphics
- 🟦 Patch functionality
Wow, amazing. Is there any open source replacement for that god awful software that only runs on Windows XP
Sure, we got that too, it’s a great software maintained by Asivery. It’s WebMiniDisc Pro, you can find all the info at the following links: https://www.minidisc.wiki/guides/webminidisc/start and https://github.com/asivery/webminidisc
