I bought a Sony MZ-R50 back in 1997 from Singapore and thought it to be the best thing in audio. loved the mini discs, loved the hardware (actually I got it out last week after a 5 year sleep and used it again without any probs listening to my old MDs from '97 to 2001).
As MP3s were a new thing back then, I gave feedback to Sony from their site, asking them to somehow incorporate the storage of mp3 files onto the MD discs and be able to play it instead of recording straight audio using ATRAC3 on them..
Their response was, yeah thanks for the feedback, we won't do that, if you want to use the MD, record it using audio and ATRAC3 cause its the best format ever...
This was even before the days of NetMD where you transfer the songs on there, you literally had to hook up optical out or analog out into the MD, please play on the CD and record on the MD.. and wait 74/80mins until it finished for you to have a usable MD!!
If only they went ahead with such a plan early on, they would've cornered the market big time. Now seems sort a little too late don't you think? Although the hardware is really nice and its something else, having all these little MDs around and using them to play them
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As MP3s were a new thing back then, I gave feedback to Sony from their site, asking them to somehow incorporate the storage of mp3 files onto the MD discs and be able to play it instead of recording straight audio using ATRAC3 on them..
Their response was, yeah thanks for the feedback, we won't do that, if you want to use the MD, record it using audio and ATRAC3 cause its the best format ever...
This was even before the days of NetMD where you transfer the songs on there, you literally had to hook up optical out or analog out into the MD, please play on the CD and record on the MD.. and wait 74/80mins until it finished for you to have a usable MD!!
If only they went ahead with such a plan early on, they would've cornered the market big time. Now seems sort a little too late don't you think? Although the hardware is really nice and its something else, having all these little MDs around and using them to play them
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http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2002/ 03/01/html/ft_20020301.1.html
This sums it all up
Article in NG Magazine March 2002.