Found a Victor XM-PX3 new in box, this beauty has that wonderful early 2000s see through plastic everyone remembers. And while the headphones that came with it only gave me mono for some reason, I slapped some Truthear Pures into the remote and it sounds surprisingly great! Definitely making this my fashion EDC <3
Functions as it should. Both decks eject as I’ve serviced the drive belts and removed all old dried up grease and regreased movable parts. Rare piece but I do not collect mini discs therefore I feel it should go to someone who does. I’m located in Norfolk, Va. asking $250 plus shipping.
I have two of these units available.
Minidisc has been the core of my heart and all things audio since 98. The year I graduated high school. I practically begged for the Sony bundle5, that thankfully I did get for Christmas. I made two discs and within 6 months, the home deck went south. Totally robbed of this format, save for the bit I'd use the portable over the years. It's nice to still have a couple unused Sony 74s yet.
Now it's 28 years later and I'm finishing off my dream stereo system. I managed to score a 520 model that I'll run optical to my PS Audio deck. Today, I got it and my new Integra 6 disc CD plus Hitachi tuner installed. Figured I'd attach photos of my 3 shelves I worked on today for good measure. As soon as the mail got here, I grabbed the 8 pack of 80 minute NIB color discs.
The gears are really turning now, as I'm ASAP doing some vinyl to tube preamp to MD recording. I wish I could show the full system but the speakers are currently gutted for a crossover rework. Which sucks because I want to record right nowwww!
My mate made this MiniDisc for me back in the early 00s, decided to visit the pub with this set up today and it felt like I was right back there. Such simpler times, nice.
Hello everyone!
As you might have noticed in the past couple of weeks, the remote encoding server used to encode LP / ATRAC3 / ATRAC3plus isn't as stable as it used to be. This is because it was necessary to put it behind a Cloudflare "wall", due to the influx of AI bots and scrapers. Unfortunately Cloudflare sometimes blocks legitimate connections too, causing instability.
Because of that, I am planning on merging in support for a new, community-made ATRAC encoder - atracdenc-rs, made by a member of the MD Wiki Discord. This encoder was built by reverse engineering the original Sony tool via an LLM.
I would like to preface this by saying that I personally am against using LLMs in my projects, and I am not planning on ever using them to write any kind of update to Web MiniDisc, but I believe that the encoder I linked produces audio of sufficient quality to have it be used instead of the remote encoder. This would make it so the whole application would become client-only without any dependencies on external servers, making it easier and faster to use for everyone.
If this encoder were to be merged with WebMiniDisc, it would be used in the exact same way as the old `atracdenc` encoder was used - its code would be compiled to WebAssembly, and the bridge between it and the core of the application would be written by me, manually.
I plan on leaving the option to use the remote encoder, since it can be self-hosted, even if the Wiki hosted one were to go down.
Please let me know what you think about this solution.
EDIT: Clarification on the authorship of the library in question.
EDIT 2: The same person has a second encoder, which has not been published yet, which is a higher-quality reverse engineering, therefore I've crossed out the link.
Sony PDF-W77 PDF viewer with built in document scanner. Now I need to track down a power adapter so I can start tinkering with it
I know for a fact that circa 2001 I had a portable HiMD device that could connect to a Windows computer, though I can't remember which model and I can't actually find it right now. Can't imagine that I would have dumped it if it still worked, but I can't remember it dying. What I do remember is that while I was able to "feed" it via the computer (WAV files on the computer became HiMD files on the device), I was not able to go the other way around. That is, I could not copy files from the MD to the computer and convert them to WAV.
My question is: Given the above limitation with the official Sony software, would Web MiniDisc be able to copy the tracks from my device (if I can find it!) or should I just try to buy another NetMD player? I realize that this is probably an unfair question since I can't even provide the model number!
This is something I'd like to do because I spent a good chunk of the 1990s recording one-off musical performances from TV shows (Letterman and SNL in particular) to MD, resulting in hundreds of recordings that are probably very difficult to find anywhere else. I also have a few MTV Unplugged shows that were never officially released. At some point 15 or so years ago, I used the analog outputs on a non-portable deck to capture the music via a standalone digital recorder and now have FLAC files, but I wasn't yet retired and didn't have the time to do a really good job of it (adding nice fades at the end of songs, etc.) and would like to re-do the project from scratch.
Prices don't seem especially horrible out there, so I'm willing to buy a new device (and at this point assume that I'll likely have to) but want to be sure that it's really a two-way street, that is, I'm not interested in writing anything new to MD but would like to get bit-perfect transfers from MD that I can then convert to WAV/FLAC for archiving on hard drive. There's an MZ-N505 on eBay right now for a good price that I assume would work.
Thank you!
Hello All,
I bought my minidisc in 2001, 25 years later, I bought the same one again and what a pleasure to receive it!
I love this color mix... plus, all of them are working.
I have been using NetMD for a great number og months now, and have run into a problem.
I am a Mac user, and use Chrome to write music to disc on my MZ-N707. The music writes perfectly, and the track names are also written as they should.
I can write the disc name, and when I reload TOC in Chrome, it is still there, but after Exit, and letting the player TOC edit, the disc title is not written på disc.
Is my MZ-N707 starting to give up?
The RH1 battery I'm using is shortened to about 5 hours, so I bought two new NH-14WMs... What's the reason why the usage time is not long at 6~7 hours?
But R900 xan use more then 10hours.
EQ always on, volum 15, OLED all ways scroll condition. Cause of CFW setting problem?
Bought two "untested" units from Japan for a good price before shipping (shipping made this overall process not worth it, but here we are).
Unit 1: MD player worked, screen was fine, but the open/close mechanism wasn't working. Unit 2: MD player didn't work (I fixed it, I think), screen was a 4/10, but open/close mechanism working. Frankenstein'd the working parts together for one good unit.
Units are pioneer carrozzeria avic v77md and avic v07md