I'm just a fellow who has erratic tastes that trend toward the old and sometimes bizarre. I will talk your ear off about house music, vaporwave, some games, and esoteric mediums. I also love rare re-releases of games, and oddities/unreleased things too.
The above is one of those more unusual things I own -- a modern day minidisc, of a vapor-ambient album: //DLM's 5 AM in Japan. Minidiscs themselves are very fascinating to me, as a (in my opinion) better form of optical media. Resistant to datarot, sturdier than a CD, and look cooler too. The limiting factor of the medium was the fact that until Hi-MD, a format that only manifested in Japan and maybe parts of the EU, minidiscs had a very small amount of music storage space. We're talking 80 minutes of music at max audio quality, with the other encoders sucking pretty bad for the longest time (Thank you, Sony). Now-a-days, through the efforts of very talented and determined individuals, the encodes are more efficient, and sound way better, letting you cram close to 1:30+ onto a disc without sounding like it just stepped out of static hell.
I think one of the things I love about minidiscs, outside of the above, though, is just how.. real(?) everything feels. The click of the device popping open, the clunk of it closing, and the physical vibration in my hand as the thing spins up to be read. Also the fact it has a headphone jack so I can use my better headphones on it instead of my bluetooth ones. It's all very tactile and analog, which is very nice.
