Step away from your favourite streaming service, push the cumbersome and costly vinyl revival to one side, and forget your feelings for the comeback of CDs (and cassette tapes?) for one moment, ...

Uncover eight intriguing facts about the nostalgic MiniDisc player that highlight its unique place in tech history.

What' s the best Sony Walkman? Perhaps one of the following models. Check out this history of the once-popular consumer product.

Still have a MiniDisc player around? Thanks to enthusiasts at minidisc.wiki, you can still add songs to a MiniDisc from a modern computer using its web app.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. IFA has seen the debut of various new technologies and audio/visual products, such as tape ...

Only hardcore enthusiasts need apply for the Magnetar UDP900, a do-everything disc player.

Like Betamax was to VHS, the Minidisc player offered a lot of advantages over cassettes, which it was aiming to replace, and compact discs, the other emerging technology.

The same can hardly be said of my once-beloved Sony MiniDisc player – and although CDs remain a viable, tangible music format, come on ...

The MiniDisc player stores data from the disc in a 40-second buffer when playing, so the code reads the data directly from DRAM in 40-second chunks, moves the read head, repeats the process as ...

Hackaday alum [Nava Whitford] has disassembled a MiniDisc optical head to document how the physical part of the system worked. The first surprise is that the MiniDisc was in fact a two-in-one system.

Pitchfork staffers remember some of their most treasured listening devices, from portable MiniDisc players to boxy computer speakers to toothbrushes (!) that pumped out pop hits.