minidisc

A magnetooptical format for storing digital audio.

This convinces me that MiniDisc is a format whose time has come and gone. When MiniDisc first came out, I was very excited at the existence of an erasable disc format for music.

Or you could buy the FW538 system stack, which Philips sees as CD-RW's big weapon in its lone fight against the rising tide of MiniDisc, for £449.95.

A disk that uses this format.

So the recording is real time: To get an hour of music on a MiniDisc, it'll take you an hour. If you go for the MiniDisc and Voquette MiniDisc NetLink solution, you'll probably want to build a collection of MiniDiscs rather than recording music to a MiniDisc temporarily, the way you download music to an ultraportable MP3 player.

Jim Taylor (2000), DVD demystified, page 388: “Because MiniDiscs are in a shell, they can be handled easily without fear of fingerprints and scratches. MiniDiscs are about 3 inches across, making them very easy to use and to store.”

A MiniDisc player or recorder.

Jon Konrath (2003), Tell Me a Story about the Devil ― Selected Journals, 1997—1999, page 137: “It'll be nice to travel with a MiniDisc, too. A MiniDisc, a GameBoy, a camcorder, a cellphone—I think RoboCop hauled around less gear.”

Steve Shipside (2005), Win at the gym, page 28: “I have a MiniDisc which I rest on the treadmill/stepper but it still jogs – how do I stop it?”

A disc/disk in MiniDisc format

A minidisc player or recorder.

Jayne K. Guberman (2005), In our own voices ― A guide to conducting life history interviews with American Jewish women, page 20: “Make sure that your minidisc has microphone inputs. Hand-held, high-quality microphones may need a preamplifier to work with a minidisc.”