i love the minidisc format, it's so versatile and basically gives you all the good things about physical media in one tiny, SUPER aesthetic package. you can put hours of music on one disc, it uses an index (like a CD) so you can play songs in any order, or shuffle, but it lets you record and erase audio (like a cassette tape), but it's digital (like a CD) so there's no loss of sound quality., but also you can group songs so you can still keep multiple albums separated on one disc (like an mp3 player), and the format has a buffer memory built in so it's shock absorbent... it's perfect!
nowadays, using https://webminidisc.com/, it's trivial to use net MD for managing your discs, uploading mp3s (or flacs, mp4s, etc.), naming and so on.
i was coy about this on twitter but i don't care who sees it here--i am planning to release all three of my EPs i released this year on one minidisc with preorders coming up in a couple days! i am SO excited for everybody to see the package, it came out INCREDIBLE thanks to the artist i asked for the cover art... more soon on that
anyway yeah! minidiscs RULE!
EDIT: also thank you to cohost for not making gifs into "webp" or something crappy like that
happy birthday minidisc!!!
i actually have a very tiny side project related to minidiscs: a web label generator for if you're putting whole albums on a disc! it's pretty basic but was a good introduction to "how the fuck does canvas work" and it seems people still like it! wow!
