Found this gem at a Hard-Off in Japan

Dug out my old portable player and a stack of minidiscs I recorded off the radio back in high school. Half of them still play perfectly and hearing those teenage mixtapes again kind of wrecked me. Anyone else still holding onto recordings this old?

What a fun serie!

https://www.theminidiscshop.com/product/com-alliance-chum-80-entire-serie-used-minidiscs

I saw some really cool art last year using MD as a base and as an artist I decided to try too. Please don't make mean comments

I'm almost 100% certain this has been asked in the past, however - are gumstick batteries universal sizes, depending on the brand of MD/CD players? As you all know I have a lovely little collection of Sony recorders and a Sharp player. I'm about to potentially add a couple of Kenwood Player's and a Panasonic portable CD Player, all of which take Gumsticks. From what I can gather, the CD player specifies a certain type of batt. Any thoughts/feedback?

I'd like to know what the problem is. The device is working and it reads the disc, but when I play it, I can't hear any sound. I've tried several pairs of headphones, but the problem is still the same.

This has been my workhorse for so long and I'm getting kind of desperate.

I'm not getting any error codes. The unit will appear to record and write TOC but if the disc is removed and re-inserted it will recognize it as a blank disc.

If I record anything to any of the tracks, on playback it will start transport but the counter will start and stop in 3-5 seconds intervals.

Any help would be appreciated...

recorded CDs to MInidisc. Tried UV printing on both the md and case. Turns out great but time consuming.

Available now via Bandcamp. Comes with free sticker.

https://chromewave.bandcamp.com/album/chrome-sweet-chrome

Onkyo FR-B8: How to turn on S.BASS without a remote? Is there a front-panel button combination to activate it?

As far as I can tell from searching, the AD-S50BT battery was used in the Sharp MD-S50 portable only (and its Kenwood equivalent, the NB-L7 battery, in the Kenwood DMC-F3 portable).

Pulled one apart this week, and it's a 14650 lithium cell inside, so can be re-celled pretty simply and with minimal tools in the same way as the Sony LIP-12 and LIP-8 batteries.

Technical Initiative has a YouTube video with process for the LIP-12.

So I made the ultimate vintage audio cardinal sin today. I accidentally plugged my 100V Japanese-import Sharp MD-F20 directly into a 220V wall outlet! Luckily, the unit was powered off, and the instant I realized what I did, I yanked the plug out faster than humanly possible. My heart completely sank. I was terrified I’d fried the transformer or blown an internal thermal fuse. After taking a moment to calm down, I hooked it up properly to my step-down transformer, gave it the sniff test (no burnt smell, thankfully!), and hit power. It booted right up and played a MiniDisc like nothing even happened! (The CD side wasn't working even before this incident, so at least 220V didn't break anything new! 🤣) God bless old-school Japanese transformers and fast reflexes! Always double-check your plugs, folks.

Eventually I found a Laptop with an Optical Drive that was happy enough to multi task enough to burn CD's and sort out We Minidisc! This little N920 is recording like a gem!

Basically the title, I've been looking for anything similar to this issue I'm having, and I have yet to see anything else like it, I got this for like 7 dollars so I knew it would have issues, but only the display doesn't work, playback and everything else, for both CD and MD works just fine. Does anyone know what could be causing this? It also seems to be flickering a lot across multiple points in the display. I smacked it and it made it flicker in different places too, so could this be a cracked solder joint?

I am missing the battery hinge thingy, and I can't find any places or anything on websites for replacement parts

The other half found a super clean MZ-R70 in blue for my birthday. In perfect working order; looks and sounds amazing! Loving my little lineup now.

Also random question for you all. As you can see on my remote it shows 1 bar of battery. This is a freshly charged gumstick.

Is there any chance that its the battery terminal? And any chance you guys have any solutions to this?

Hello all! Longtime lurker, first time poster

Just got into MDs a few weeks ago, and already I’m deep down the rabbit hole. Bought an orange MZ-R50 off eBay, and then a DSC-MD1 just a little while later

Is there any website that can help with trying to find MiniDiscs sold by artists on Bandcamp? They're normally labelled under 'CD' on there which kinda sucks.

Original Minidisc Goodie !

Artist: Bring Me The Horizon
Album: Count Your Blessings (Repented)
MiniDisc: EMTEC/BASF Colour Maxima 74 Green