Any reason why?

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Posted by aerisdead on November 25, 2016 at 14:44:30 EST in reply to Does anyone have any Minidisc stuff they want to get rid of? I'm mainly interested in home units, high end portables, pro gear, and blanks. Not at all interested in those cheap pieces of shit they sold at Target during the NetMD era. (n/t) from SignOfZeta.

Any reason why?

n/t

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Hopefully I'll release an episode of OG Ota explaining this, but the short of it is this: I stopped using my MZ-R90 as my main portable player in 2004 when I got an iPod Mini. It was a tough choice but I wanted more capacity and convinence and the iPod Mini was more than $100 cheaper than the upcoming HiMD players so I made the switch. In the end I have to say that for most things a Mini beats an MZ-R90. However, now it's 2016 and they don't make clickwheel iPods anymore, they make phones, and for whatever reason Apple has decided that it's their way of the highway when it comes to listening to music and I think I'll take the high road. "Music" (iOS) is an unrealiable PIT ASS and simply cannot be used "in a hurry" or with your eyes not on the screen. They've sabotaged my library to make me want Apple Music and it's never ever happening, not on my "main player" anyway. And with the elimination of the headphone jack they've sealed the deal. Fuck em. I left MD for Apple because Apple was more convenient, now they aren't, and the MZ-R90 still works %100 (even found a source for batteries) so I'm back to this and I genuinely love it. BTW, my iPod Mini still works too but Apple stopped supporting it at some time so you need to maintain a vintage computer and OS and iTunes to use it. With an MD player all I need is "audio". Of almost any kind. Translation: MD outlasted the iPod.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:50:16 11/26/16 EST)

I agree completely about the current "USE APPLE MUSIC FFS YOU CUNT" version of apple's current iOS player, but I can't say I fancy carrying around, what, a gig of music at a time, unless I'm willing to switch discs?

(aerisdead)

(18:33:50 11/27/16 EST)

Oh no, I'll have to change a disc. Every hour even. Oh whatever will a poor soul do in such trying times? (See: humans vs pussies re: controller cord length on page 2). And no you don't get a GB. That would be alien super technology by the standard of 1992 not to mention a useless scale of measurement. You get 74 or 80 min. You get one or two albums in there. Just like CD except unlike CD you can double the length if you want to use mono. With iTunes Match I'm always carrying (when it fucking works) my entire collection of tens of thousands of songs. However if I take six or seven MDs with me that's also more than I'll listen to in a day. There reaches a point where more and more theoretical capability just becomes stupid, like WALL-E levels of stupid. I don't need three months of music on a device who's battery can barely make it through a day. You're more tethered with an iPhone than an MD player. An MD player will run deep inside an engineering building where cell signals suck worse than IT at getting you a WIFI password, and when the power quits? It can also use AAs. I can also record things to MD away from my computer. In stereo even. And, unlike an iPhone 7, you can power it off the wall at the same times as using headphones or use an inline headphone amp. You know that conversation in Ghost in the Shell where she's talking about how they are so dependent for maintenance and repair on their super L337 cyborg bodies that they basically can never quit their job? Well, I'm just tired of that shit fucking with my music. Lots of Apple's fancy shit is worth the surrounding sacrifices, this ain't it and I'm way more loyal to music than I am to them.

(SignOfZeta)

(11:09:51 11/28/16 EST)

UPDATE: I just recorded like an hour long segment on the psychology of obsolete formats so...get ready for that.

(SignOfZeta)

(10:42:01 11/29/16 EST)

I've been ready for months : D

(Paleface)

(00:22:42 11/30/16 EST)

This guy on Twitter has been waiting for "the laserdisc episode" for I think three years. This is...getting close.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:01:08 11/30/16 EST)

Oh, I guess I thought you were using that MD format that allowed you to store a gig, I think that exists? Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm impressed at your ability to not be somewhere and never think "I wish I could listen to X song" that you don't have, or at least be able to deal with the feeling of disappointment. I'm too flighty and want to be able to listen to basically anything I own at any point, cos it's not 1998 anymore

(aerisdead)

(22:17:13 11/30/16 EST)

It's weird no one has put out a good iPod rip-off on Kickstarter or whatever, tho. Some artisanal MP3 player for purists

(aerisdead)

(22:18:25 11/30/16 EST)

There are many of these. Sony makes $400 MP3 players you've never heard of. If I wasn't already entrenched in MD I'd be moving that way.

(SignOfZeta)

(11:16:53 12/01/16 EST)

I get a lot of mileage out of Apple Music.

(Jeurja)

(15:19:21 12/26/16 EST)

Most people would. I go way further without it. The first time it wouldn't play something I have two copies of at home I'd lose my techno-temper all over it.

(SignOfZeta)

(01:29:36 12/27/16 EST)

Whoa, can you really not manage a clickwheel iPod on current iTunes? Fuck.

(substance J)

(12:53:12 12/01/16 EST)

Not a Mini. I don't know about newer ones. They made them up until a few years ago so I would hope one of those works.

(SignOfZeta)

(21:07:52 12/01/16 EST)

Correction, now I'm confused. I have a Nano that doesn't work with iTunes anymore either and that one is from about 2008 or so, I think. Lame. Super lame. This is a dandy little device too. A very nice color screen and the trusty click wheel in a tiny size, %100 functional. Now a paperweight...or is it? Looking around online I can't seem to find confirmation that *any* iPod has been discontinued. Even the FireWire-only original from 2001 can be made to work with iTunes 12, supposedly. However when I plug them in nothing happens. I'll have to look into this more but for now it seems I was selling Apple short on this issue.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:31:06 12/02/16 EST)

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