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

I wish I had heard of MiniDisc when they were still being manufactured. The compact size of the discs, digital tracks like CDs and recordable like cassettes. Just so cool. No compromises.

My favorite thing though is the variety of designs. Cassettes had this too, where some blank cassettes were literally works of art to me. MiniDisc carried this on, and when I got a player/recorder and some blank discs a few years ago out of curiosity I chose discs based on their design.