The Minidisc Label Printer

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For the 1990s Minidisc enthusiast who has everything (except a Minidisc Label Printer).
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A chap on Patreon commented on the ‘killer track list’ on the Hip Hop MD - Its straight off a recent compilation - Four CDs - 72 Tracks all with CD Text £4.40 Amazon UK amzn.to/2tAN8cs (affiliated link)
It’s also worth looking at the ‘frequently bought together’ list for some similar deals.
LABELS:
A few comments regarding why not just use a computer printer and standard adhesive labels instead. Many of us did, but the clever aspect of this machine is its ability to read in the track titles automatically. No typing required. I thought it was a novelty worth sharing because of that feature. If it had been a label printer with a querty keyboard which was used to manually enter the track names, that would have held no interest to me and wouldn't have warranted a video.
There have been a few suggestions of transplanting other labels into the cases.
There are cut-out designs on the Sony Labels - I'd imagine these are unique to this printer. Square holes along the length of the label strip in-between each label. These holes are used by the machine to advance and to identify the label status. Generic labels would likely not be manufactured with identical cut-outs.
It's not a big deal though - I'm just showing some odd old tech that I thought was interesting. It doesn't have to work forever, just long enough to document it for posterity in a video...which it did. Mission complete.
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@KarlBunker 4 года назад

"Fortunately I've got a few more [Minidisc player] machines I can try." Of course you do. 😄

@pmgodfrey 4 года назад

Who doesn't? I have three.

@SeverityOne 4 года назад

@@pmgodfrey I have two: a Sharp portable that stopped working, and a second-hand Sony Lissa that I never got working period. And yes, stupid me is thinking of buying a working one, like one of those really cool 19" Sonys...

@pmgodfrey 4 года назад

@@SeverityOne -- I have an MDS-E12 rack, but they're prone to just as many problems as the others because of their age. If you need parts, be careful about loading belt sizes when ordering online. You'll find a lot of sellers stamp the right part number on it, but it's designed for different mechanisms. It took a month to find the right one before my unit would happily ingest discs. If you really have a need for a much newer one, I'd recommend the Tascam MD-CD1MKIII. They're quite high in price though.

@MrAlan1828 4 года назад

@@pmgodfrey I have 10 : from decks, portable, bookshelfs and MD Data, Sony Laptop built in MD .....

@pmgodfrey 4 года назад

@@danieldaniels7571 -- I still think the format was pretty slick. My brother enjoyed it so much, he used to steal my deck and take it to his room so he could record the music he wrote onto something digital. It does have limits, as we both discovered. High frequency noise (synthesizer generated) produced many artifacts. It wasn't ideal for that, but if you just wanted to carry around a mix of songs that you recorded directly from CD, it was great and the (later) units were ultra small. Hell, I still think DAT is cool.

@benji_xxiv 4 года назад

Once again Japan keeps all the cool tech for themselves. So cool to see though.

@Techmoan 4 года назад

Sony really did try getting everyone on board with MD - but the pushback from record companies in the west (which started with DAT ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F4K1QKKPX_g.html ) really put the dampers on home digital audio recording formats outside Japan.

@janchristianursuaaguilar7434 4 года назад

@@Techmoan record companies must die they so mean!!!

@the_original_Bilb_Ono 4 года назад

It's the same with cars. Any American Honda fan will tell you how frustrating it is that literally every cool car Honda makes is purposely screwed up for the American market... lol things have gotten better since the 90s but it's still true.

@user-pi5xz5je4y 4 года назад

I really wanted a minidisc player back in the day, they were too expensive though.

@6581punk 4 года назад

@@user-pi5xz5je4y I got one around 2001. I bought the DCC portable recorder before that, but that wasn't that practical. At the time I was getting big into Linux and there was a huge learning curve meaning quite often your PC would be out of action while downloading lots of packages, fixing X11 config etc. So I got a minidisc recorder so I could listen to some music while waiting.

@deusexaethera 4 года назад

When I clicked on the video, I didn't know this product existed. Two minutes in, I desperately wanted one. Four minutes in, I didn't want one anymore. Oh Techmoan, your videos always send me on such a roller coaster of emotions.

@Fazmukadar 4 года назад

Eyy I'm the 50th like, good for you

@alessandrabernardis8158 3 года назад

Oh yes! The same for me! Every time! 🤣

@jamesduncan6309 4 года назад

Here I was printing on label paper through an inkjet printer having to typeout everything like a sucker. Really neat piece of tech.

@StarkRG 4 года назад

Yeah, but, by doing that, you saved several hundred dollars.

@me2olive 4 года назад

@@StarkRG And almost certainly got a better looking end result, without the weird text wrapping issues.

@estherstreet4582 3 года назад

If I was an anorak in the late 90s with a lot of unlabelled minidiscs and no computer (and could read japanese), I would probably find one of these very useful.

@markm0000 3 года назад

I love printing labels for CDs and compact cassettes. It looks so neat and organized. I know exactly what anything is at any moment.

@JaredConnell 5 месяцев назад

And here i am having to use my lungs to breathe like a sucker

@nux3960 4 года назад

0:06 "I hope you like the usual old tech" Me: *Yes*

@808v1 4 года назад

I think it was "I heard you liked unusual old tech..." - further I think it was a reference/joke about Xzibit and Pimp My Ride meme... stackin' ol'tech yo! :)

@nux3960 4 года назад

@@808v1 yeah I didn't quite get exactly what he said lol

@Drew791 4 года назад

He says, "I heard you like..."

@catfish552 4 года назад

That's... why I'm here.

@SkipjackUK 4 года назад

love the obscure tech, keep it coming

@TheFirstGroover 4 года назад

@JohnRineyIII 4 года назад

This is the sort of deliciously specialized, fiddly gadget arcana that I love.Great video!

@michaellowe2131 4 года назад

I was very close to buying one a while ago but it didn't have any labels. Once again you've scratched the 'what if' itch. Those labels would also be great for data MDs to list all the file names.

@Christopher-N 4 года назад

It's too bad a device like this wasn't available back in the late 1980s. My Headstart LX-CD came with a disc of shovelwared games, but the ones with save features like _Lords of Conquest_ or _Alternate Reality: The City_ weren't programmed to save to floppy/HDD while running from the CD. Thus, some of the games I'd copy to floppy for personal use. This was back when 3½" floppies came with a plastic sleeve, so instead of having to waste a permanent label, I just wrote what I wanted on a piece of paper sized to fold over the label section of the disk. Of course, once manufacturers stopped adding plastic sleeves, I was forced to use hand written adhesive labels.

@trewlove 4 года назад

"Fortunatelly, I have few MD players laying around..."

@6581punk 4 года назад

I reacquired one recently. Even bought some NOS blanks. Never touched it since. Same goes for my Psion 3a and the Cambridge Z88. They're just nice to look at though :)

@isaakwelch3451 4 года назад

I've got one. It sees regular use. I'm considering upgrading to a model that sounds better but they get spendy fast.

@gayusschwulius8490 3 года назад

@@isaakwelch3451 Why on earth would you want to use a Minidisc player regularly nowadays? Even if you dislike Smartphones, there are far cheaper, smaller and better MP3-Players nowadays. I get that some people buy them out of curiosity as a novelty item, but using it regularly?

@isaakwelch3451 3 года назад

@@gayusschwulius8490 mine is a home unit, it's plugged into my stereo. I use it because I like it and I have some good titles.

@nickmoreno3885 4 года назад

Man I would've KILLED for this machine back in my radio station days.

@nethoncho 4 года назад

Me too 📼😎

@JCD87 4 года назад

Completly forgot about that, indeed radiostations were full on using these MD discs. Yup, sony was too greedy back then. And eventually MP3 came into play (no pun intended).

@nickmoreno3885 4 года назад

@@JCD87 we used them primarily for archiving our small news reports/indepths and promos. Also jingles. So many jingles 😲

@tristanadamski8479 4 года назад

I worked for a radio station until last year and we used MD’s to record local bands and play them back on the air. The station gave me a sony MZ-N920 when i quit and it‘s a fun little thing to listen to music on.

@nickmoreno3885 4 года назад

@@tristanadamski8479 believe it or not, we used tape for instances like that up to 2015 when I left. I heard after that they finally switched to something else.

@ChadWSmith 4 года назад

"So I heard you like unusual old tech - so here's some unusual old tech that works with your unusual old tech to improve how you use unusual old tech. So you can old tech while you old tech!"

@Chris5685 4 года назад

Oldtechception?

@Phobos_Anomaly 4 года назад

Yo dawg.

@JaredConnell 5 месяцев назад

@@Chris5685pimp my old tech

@itxofficial8281 4 года назад

" I heard you like unusual, old tech. So, here's something you probably haven't seen before." I want this to be printed on every possible item in your merch store!!

@meccorr 4 года назад

I always love watching these minidisc items. They remind me of a time when I was a student and travelled with the train. That minidisk player was a lot easier to travel with then a discman.

@AtheistOrphan 4 года назад

I would have loved this back in the 90’s when I was heavily into MiniDisc! (Oh look - a MiniDisc emoji! 💽)

@Gadgetonomy 4 года назад

Awesome!

@SimonCoates 4 года назад

Please replicate the owners manual warnings with the puppets 😊

@Christopher-N 4 года назад

Outro of the Moans recreating the do's and don'ts as shown in the manual.

@Fluteboy 4 года назад

Mehdi from ElectroBOOM could volunteer!

@JasmineSurrealVideos 4 года назад

Flipping heck that's a top idea like.

@fryloc359 3 года назад

I noticed those characters all appeared to be white...

@IrishCarney Год назад

@@fryloc359 Japanese cartoon characters often are

@jakesteampson7043 4 года назад

2:36 Pat & Mat? _Oh, those wonderful childhood memories_

@supra107 4 года назад

I'm actually surprised that TechMoan knows about Pat & Mat. It's an absolute classic. Dun, dun, dararara, dara, dun duuun...

4 года назад

@@supra107 I'm surprised anyone outside of Czechslovakia knows Pat & Mat :D

@supra107 4 года назад

@ It is well known in Poland, and probably in various post-Soviet countries too.

@jakesteampson7043 4 года назад

@@supra107 From what I've heard they're very popular in Denmark. They even have live theatre plays.

@FiXato 4 года назад

@ Dutch guy from the Netherlands reporting here: we actually had (or rather, have: 124 episodes and counting) a localised version of it called "Buurman & Buurman" (Neighbour & Neighbour) which (AFAICT) is one of only two versions where the characters were given voices (voiced by Kees Prins and Siem van Leeuwen), the other being the English dub of the first 49 episodes, created in South Korea. Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%26_Mat) tells me that, aside from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it's been broadcast in 19 countries. :) A lot of the Dutch ones can be found here: ru-vid.com/show-UCg040vh3QpyCzd38Vlfwj2gplaylists The English dub is found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iu2dEMCY3Ys.html

@jean-lucaudoin8538 4 года назад

It takes all the skills and nice spirit of Techmoan to make a video about a label printer almost interesting! I'm impressed...

@bfhammer 4 года назад

I fully understand the desire for this printer. Going back 35 years ago, I had the Commodore plotter printer for my C-64. The paper for this plotter was roll paper 4.25 inches wide, and it used mini-sized ball point pens to print. Just about ideal for printing liners for cassette tape boxes. I wrote a program that would prompt for the title, side 1 and side 2 tracks, and any recording options like Dolby NR. The liners then printed with some formatting divider lines and the needed cut and fold lines. Possibly my most useful program I ever wrote, and I used it for many years.

@IrishCarney Год назад

That's VERY cool. Amazing how versatile the C64 was and how friendly it was to budding programmers. But it takes talent and persistence like yours to make the most of that potential. Did you ever try to sell your program? There was such a burgeoning scene of magazines (with ads including small ads placed by indie programmers) plus catalogs, subscription services etc.

@bfhammer Год назад

@@IrishCarney Never sold it, but I put it out there on BBS services as public domain back in the day. The required plotter printer was kind of a rare device in homes though.

@spiritswitchboard 4 года назад

I was a big minidisc-er back in the 90s, and always appreciate your videos on this subject.

@kanalnamn 4 года назад

I used my 9-pin dot matrix printers compact mode when labeling MDs for my then girlfriend. Worked great.

@kanalnamn 4 года назад

@Nigel Kipling How would that matter? No break up's are beautiful, but ours were as close as they can be.

@rich_edwards79 4 года назад

Same but with mixtapes! Huge old late 80s Panasonic thing that took forever to print one J-card and could be heard halfway across the street.

@Wheresthepepsibismol 4 года назад

I'm getting an Aiwa cassette tape player next week the earliest I'm so happy about it 🙏🏼😀😀😀

@arijip 4 года назад

Such an amazing equipment, I wish I could have done such a thing at the time of minidiscs. Nice layout for the credits at the end of the video. Kudos to you, your hard work and methodology.

@Sarato 4 года назад

How can a RU-vid video about a label machine become so interesting? This is so fascinating! Keep up the great work!

@cien1975 4 года назад

I really love your choice of music for displaying those machines 😍

@SarahLJP 4 года назад

2:57 I looked up the instructions and it does say インクリボン (inku ribon) or "ink ribbon".

@No-vm7go 4 года назад

You have the patience of a Saint. This printer was a great idea and a perfect complement to the ultimate MD system, and personally, I think MD was a great format. It was sad seeing its demise. Love your channel.

@Mumblebee 4 года назад

Great video! Love your immense knowledge bank, and way of, kind of slipping education in there without one realizing it, occupied as one is with being entertained by your easy-going approach and dry humour. Thank you for yet another little gem from the wonderful world of electrotech! By the way, I fondly remember my first Minidisc back in the 90's, and how gratifying it was to crack open a new pack of discs and just admire the colors before popping one in to hear that whirring sound of it spinning up. Good stuff :) -

4 года назад

"They are like the japanese Pat & Mat" I'm amazed that you know Pat & Mat :D

@wingobingo 4 года назад

Květoslav Bastard techmoan man remembers twizzle

@kdan_69 4 года назад

Taky jsem se divil xD

@speedm222 4 года назад

4:46 A man of culture, I see

@NicMG 4 года назад

How you've not surpassed 1 million subs already baffles me? Keep it coming Matt, I'm always learning something new!

@KlaasDeforche 4 года назад

I recently got into Minidisc and I love it. Thanks for the videos on Minidisc.

@helge000 4 года назад

Note to self: run up the stairs to the attic and search hundreds of cardboard boxes for my Sony MD player.

@peteasmr2952 4 года назад

@Bryan O'Leary Jumanji Vibes.

@AttilaTheHun333333 4 года назад

Bryan O'Leary I think he had an MD player not this printer.

@AttilaTheHun333333 4 года назад

Hope it still works buddy. The attic is never a good place for electronics. 😬 I have some up there too, since I don’t have much room in the house. I think I‘m a hoarder due to Techmoan videos.

@mikeos1 4 года назад

My MD discs are in cardboard boxes in the garage, together with boxes of VHS tapes and cassettes.

@writerpatrick 4 года назад

@@mikeos1 VHS tapes are vulnerable to weather so they shouldn't be in a garage or shed.

@Toumasu 4 года назад

Im glad I still have my Sony md deck, a portable hi-md player and a win7 laptop with sonicstage and an audigy z2 with optical in/out. MD 4 lyfe. The audigy software came with an md suite with label creator

@davey2k12 4 года назад

That software was shit and annoying 😂

@lemagreengreen 4 года назад

Did anyone ever get Sonicstage to work well though? OpenMG was even worse as I remember. NetMD was a great product ruined by that awful bloody software.

@Toumasu 4 года назад

@@lemagreengreen well tbh, my first netmd came with sonic-stage V2, which crashed often but near the end with v4.3 and the latest openmg patches and drivers i got it to work flawlessy on win7. Also i only use WAV in my library to convert to omg so maybe that is more stable than MP3, WMA.. i don't know. Works fine here

@thunderbird66613 4 года назад

Yeah, I have a dedicated laptop with windows 7 to run sonic stage. I tried on windows 10 with no luck.

@MelsvanWees 4 года назад

Lovely video! Your the reason that there now is a Sony duo cassette deck I bought for €5 in my room. Both mechanisms taken out waiting for new belts. Thanks! For al the inspiring content!!

@EzeeLinux 4 года назад

MD was so much fun... I had machine with a full size keyboard plugged in to type out the track info. It also serve as a wired remote. I miss those days! :)

@vdochev 4 года назад

I was considering getting one of these, but it was a professional MD recorder and wouldn't fit with my system.

@legacydepot 4 года назад

First big Clive, now techmoan What a week for labelling

@6581punk 4 года назад

I'm glad I watched that Bigclive video, I bought that labeller, it's very nice. You could probably use one to do MD labels if you didn't mind having to cut them to size and apply about 6 strips on a disc.

@ciarfah 4 года назад

6581punk I have very little need for one as a broke student, but damn do I want one. There are higher priorities to look after first though:)

@6581punk 4 года назад

I have a home music studio, so there's like 60+ cables to label.

@up7500 4 года назад

Travelling Without Moving - what an album! The first 3 Jamiroquai albums are gold

@ohnoitschris 4 года назад

It's a classic

@abraxaseyes87 4 года назад

"Traveling without moving" definitely mini disc era album. Great content by the way thank you!

@davidryan6616 4 года назад

Love this Channel, I still have my 1979 Sony Walkman without the orange headphones 😫. Loved the minidisks had a Sony unit in the car as well as the Minidisk Walkman. I genuinely believe people are missing out on the fun of these machines. Keep up the great work.

@cmb1972 4 года назад

Techmoan, did you ever visit the tech shops on Tottenham Court Road, London in the late 80's early 90's ? I used to love looking at the JDM products, high end Walkmans and gadgets , I bought a programmable Casio calculator and a Top of the range Technics personal CD player.

@JoePiperMagic 4 года назад

C M B was so much fun, for me it was the video game shops. Seeing stuff like the ‘Virtual Boy’ and ‘TurboGrfx 16’ that no other shops had. 👍

@misterinspace 4 года назад

Techmoan u rule!

@hizokuto 4 года назад

1:18 If you had japanese 0.3 or 0.25mm stationery, you'd be able to write on those labels a little easier. Also using their writing system would help =P

@drewgehringer7813 4 года назад

yeah you don't need as much space for labels when your written language has basically every noun represented by one or two characters

@mal2ksc 4 года назад

@@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda I have a 0.4 mm mechanical pencil. Rather than importing lead for it, I generally take 0.5 mm leads and roll them between two sheets of paper until they fit.

@EvertGuzman 4 года назад

Mal-2 KSC just buy it

@mal2ksc 4 года назад

@@EvertGuzman Generally, mechanical pencil lead in the U.S. comes in odd-numbered fractions only: 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9. The only source of 0.4 I had was in Japan, so it's much quicker to do it myself.

@kymmoulds 4 года назад

Another enjoyable review from the past. Keep em' coming. A big thumbs up.

@MrA5htaroth Год назад

Love your videos, thank you! Great video and audio quality and interesting content.

@singeslayer8367 4 года назад

Hmm, approaching LGR Oddware levels of unusual hardware...

@a500 4 года назад

Still love the MD. It was/is a a lovely format. I would have so wanted one of these back in the day.

@a500 4 года назад

@Bryan O'Leary I'm in the UK. I didn't see these over here either. It's only Techmoan s video that made me aware. If I had seen it back in the late 90s I'd more than likely have got one though.

@heathroi 4 года назад

@@a500 i lusted after MD when they came out in NZ but never quite got round to getting one then got a PC with CDRom which made it irrelevant. I can't remember many titles if any coming out on MD in stores there.

@a500 4 года назад

Heath Newland : the cost of pre recorded MDs was a bit crazy and seldom seen. You could get the blank minidisc and CD for about half the price. Which is what I did because it was a lot easier to carry around MDs and they were harder to damage not to mention not skipping. I also really liked the sound. I rate ATRAC over mp3, it’s crisper and punchier.

@lemagreengreen 4 года назад

I bought into MD quite late, mainly because all my mates had it and it was a popular way of sharing albums. Didn't last long though, NetMD killed it off when MP3 players became available and better in every way.

@rexjaru 4 года назад

My 2005 JDM Toyota (imported grey-market to NZ) has a MiniDisk player underneath a standard CD player in the middle of the dashboard. The MD content could then be downloaded onto the car’s internal audio storage. My use of these features in the vehicle will be limited at best.

@paulrod0711 4 года назад

Great video. As the owner of 4 MD Player/Recorders, I didn't even know this printer existed. I used to use a template on my Atari 1040 STFM and print out to my DOT Matrix printer. We learn something new every day.

@ThisNameWasntTaken 4 года назад

as with many of your videos this was way more interesting than initially expected

@J.n.A.1993 4 года назад

Ah nice, something good to watch! Thank you sir!

@chrisparker8539 4 года назад

I had a minidisc player and I loved it. I was super proud of this hi-tech from Japan. Unfortunately, no one else really cared and it never caught on here.

@cai5504 4 года назад

Love your hip-hop interest. 90s hip-hop really was (and is!) just the best

@sprint955st 4 года назад

Cracking vid. I’m still a MD user and carefully wrote my labels and found some Avery ones I could print. I had an app on my Handspring which could fire the the track list at the MD stereo system component to save typing on the remote.

@Kumimono 4 года назад

One wonders, if the stickers are part of any sort of standard, for your Dymo-type label makers. Pop the cartridge open, replace with roll from Dymo cartridge, er, profit?

@mkruizv 4 года назад

HP read your comment from the past and invented lockout chips on cartridges.

@AaronSmart.online 4 года назад

Maybe rolls of similar width could be found, but the sticker shape is very specific to the MiniDisc

@Jehty_ 4 года назад

@@AaronSmart.online nothing a pair of scissors can't fix.

@Kumimono 4 года назад

@@AaronSmart.online True enough. It's not the "cut to shape" type.

@flp322 4 года назад

@@Jehty_ At that point you might as well skip the MZP-1 and just use your Dymo/Brother to print out the labels

@DudeMcDuderson 4 года назад

Some early generation emojis on that printer too.

@TimmyMoza 4 года назад

Amazed how you find all this oddball stuff... well done...

@sadiqmohamed681 4 года назад

Another fascinating bit of kit. There was a short period when location sound recordists would use either a Nagra for the main sound recording, and a MiniDisk for wild-track or background. The trouble was that by that time film cameras could record timecode in a machine readable form on the edge of the negative, and the sound recorder would also record timecode. The camera would be synchronised to the sound recorder. However I don't think there was ever an MD recorder with timecode, so it could not be used for sync sound, and for editing the tracks would need to be transferred. I edited a couple of jobs where some of the sound was on MD, and I just copied them onto a DAT with timecode. The disk made it much easier to use than tape, but not having timecode and the lower quality eventually stopped their use. During the 90s there was a general transition to using DAT for location sound. This is still true, though most recordists now use one or other of the solid state recorders instead. I still have a couple of MD disks amongst my collection of stuff I can no longer play!

@Tycho343 4 года назад

Probably the only control the printer was using is the "Next track", and if your player is set to cycle or loop, then it would just repeat again and again?

@olivernilsson3361 4 года назад

0:37 No. 9 - Jenny from the block. That song came out 18 years ago... Let that sink in y'all.

@dashcamandy2242 4 года назад

The first studio MD I ever bought was J-Lo's "On the 6." Hard to believe that was 21 years ago...

@pootle5096 Год назад

Amazing. Back in the 90's when I used minidisc I just created a template for labels & case inserts in Amipro (trial and error until I got it right) on my PC and then used that to label all my discs... The joys of a computer and a printer. I really have no idea how people of today get on with life WITHOUT a computer and printer, managing with only their phone!

@lachlan1971 4 года назад

I loved MD. I had a stereo with a MD player and a walkman one. It was great for recording in the rehearsal studio with my old band.

@jimbo573 4 года назад

I would have absolutely loved this in 1998.

@renmorpheus 4 года назад

Sony design is so simple and beautiful. Miss the aesthetics of these players, media and cases :)

@aris95 2 года назад

One thing what in minidisc "walkmans" i didnt like was those awful little buttons

@Tha4nikat0r 4 года назад

Hello! Great channel! I love the fact that the mini disc that kept repeating featured Jamiroquai''s "Travelling without Moving"" album. i am a huge fan of him/them and especially of the album. All the best!

@GustoTheGamer 4 года назад

Minidisc is like Some tech from the future! I love the format

@keith_5584 4 года назад

Other than Sony being sort of "proud," of their products in the pricing department; They were always doing something awesome. My Vaio (I think Z series) had some kind of insane intel usb 3.0 + fibre integration just to make the optical drive external, AND make the GPU external. This was before those awesome usb-c boxes you can buy, and it was a REAL GPU not a port replicator or a DisplayLink emulator. Funny enough, the Sony Driver was about annoying as the DisplayLink software, but if you did it in the right order; it worked for the life of the OS, unlike DisplayLink! The hardware physically outlived the plastics of the machine. I miss seeing what kind of crazy Vaio thing they are doing lately!

@mvevitsis 4 года назад

Please show us your MD CD combo unit in more detail with HIGH SPEED DUBBING

@Techmoan 4 года назад

I plan on it.

@thisisnev 4 года назад

@@Techmoan I've made a terrible mistake. I bought a Hitachi MD/CD combo on eBay, only to find it's an OEM-sourced horror. It's so shonky I can actually hear the VFD flashing "LOADING" through the audio output.

@freund333 4 года назад

You can also watch my vid about my minidisc stuff.

@isaakwelch3451 4 года назад

@@thisisnev Its my understanding that only the sony stuff is worth buying in the MD world.

@Grenade80 4 года назад

Say what? Was that Yuck- abomination available anywhere outside Eastern Bloc? I used to work at computer store which was its official importer and retailer and it was a nightmare. We had to buy back majority of them due every possible issues- faulty firmware, dead batteries, burned out displays etc.

@sonic2000gr 4 года назад

I was printing the labels supplied with the discs using my then inkjet printer. Even the spine labels. I still have these disks and they look great.

@bobuk5722 4 года назад

Hi Techmoan. This is a very nice fit to your channel. Interesting what the 'old' technolgy could do as well. Thanks. BobUK

@cmul7651 4 года назад

The closest thing i had to this was a word document template and some label paper

@SateenDuraLuxe 4 года назад

Damn Techmoan listens to Jamiroquai. He's got good taste in music.

@nkt1 4 года назад

I loved MiniDisc back in the day. I had a Sharp MD-MS701, followed by a MD-MT831. Expensive machines, but they both broke down and I soon got fed up. I look after my stuff *extremely* well and rarely have any problems.

@PhiTonics 4 года назад

I miss my MD player so much.. lost it about 6 months after they came out, man those things were *so* high tech feeling for the time. Fantastic designs in those old MD players, packed with features.

@PainSled 4 года назад

9:07 − "Without any line wrapping, the maximum number of track names you could fit on one sheet is eighteen." 9:07 − Picture of sheet with nineteen tracks

@meyer_brown 4 года назад

One of the tracks being titled "Ms Fat Booty."

@PainSled 4 года назад

@@meyer_brown Whose posterial girth is assuredly enveloping two tracks. So theoretically thirty-eight tracks? But aught not a MiniDisc filled with "Ms Fat Booty" be considered an oxymoron verily deserving a moniker worthy of its grandiose proportions? MaxiDisk, or perhaps GiganDisk?

@RTheren 4 года назад

That's a pretty neat little machine. I had no idea you knew who Pat and Mat are.

@filipbarski6990 4 года назад

This was also suprise for me. I wonder where in the world where they aired.

@Jehty_ 4 года назад

@@filipbarski6990 in a few countries :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%26_Mat

@lawnboyfreak 4 года назад

That’s the coolest audio accessory I’ve ever seen! If MD became the standard, that would’ve sold like crazy.

@DubsBrown 4 года назад

Fabulous episodes like this and you should hit 1 million subs in no time

@movieedge7370 4 года назад

I used a mini disc player and recorder for college radio back in late 90’s into the 2000’s . I never found it not easy to wright on the labels if fact it was a pain . I could of use one of these printer back in the day . Great video 👍🏻

@Lvvcassss 4 года назад

It's always nice, especially in the digital era, to see a piece of physical media and accesories from the past. I've never owned an md, jumped from cassettes/vinyl right to cd's and seeing your vids...I have to have one :) even for the sole sake of just owning it

@ViewbobTrue 4 года назад

Funnily enough, I was showing my roommate Cowboy Bebop recently, and on this watch thru, I've noticed that all the characters are using minidisc! Seems that they envisioned MD as the format of the future.

@sublicenseable 4 года назад

That's a real gadget! I don't have minidisc or a minidisc player but still I want this printer

@westerngodzilla 4 года назад

Nice to have a look on this almost forgotten device. Thank you.

@unf0ld 4 года назад

I would have loved one of these babies back in the day, my hand still cramps up when I remember painstakingly writing out album info in the smallest of my handwriting’s

@IngwiePhoenix 4 года назад

Dude, two days ago I was literally looking for a way to print MiniDisc labels. I use this format for audiobooks. Man...this thing is grat, I need one.

@Brutalwhan 4 года назад

Another awesome vid Matt. Keep em coming.

@antunkatona5674 4 года назад

Hi TechMoan! In the late '90s, there was a function on some Sony MD and CD portables called „Joint-Text“ which allowed for automated transfer of text data from CD to MD using a propritary cable plugged into the „remote“ jacks on both machines. My Sony CD walkman has this feature and I know for certain Sony MZ-R900 was the first MD walkman to have it too. Your MZ-E900 MD player likely uses the same protocol to transfer data to your label printer as it is a player-only version of the MZ-R900. Cheers!

@user-pi5xz5je4y 4 года назад

Those warning pictures are awesome.

@procrastinator1842 4 года назад

MiniDisc was my favourite format. I got into it when my locker at school was broken into and my DiscMan and 10 cds were stolen. The school agreed to cover it. I wandered into a shop with a $750 voucher to buy a new DiscMan...and walked out with a shiny new Sony MZR-90 MiniDisc player! Basically a high tech version of cassettes. I was lucky enough that (in the 90s) my parents had a CD deck with optical out which made recording MDs completely automatic. Ahhh kids today will never know the joys of living through all the formats.

@dcflake5645 4 года назад

I've never owned a minidisc player and I doubt I ever will. I watched this entire video. Well done Techmoan.

@scwaty180 4 года назад

Very cool, love the Mini Disc players. Would love to have had one back in the day.

@SvenEnterlein Год назад

I'm so glad I never saw these machines when I bought my MD player. I'd been sucked into them for sure.

@NaokisRC 4 года назад

I swear you're getting me on the MiniDisc train, I'm already considering buying albums on it!

@freund333 4 года назад

I also have allot of videos about this format.

@gonzothecat5901 4 года назад

I had a mini disc in high school, loved it such cool tech

@Megalocade 4 года назад

Your videos are so informative mate you put a lot of effort into every video and it's much appreciated, lol where do you find this stuff, never even knew a md printer even existed, Sony Japan bring out some amazing things. The majority of my music is on Minidisc I'm an avid user, I made a set of labels on my pc that I use that's printed on to sticky labels and the correct size of the discs I use like tdk, maxell amd Sony as all 3 have different lable dimensions, also have templates for the j cards too.

@Uncle-Jay 3 года назад

I really like that mini disk player you have, it's just cool looking.

@nakjojo 4 года назад

Loved it as always! Thank you Techmoan

@crispyandspicy6813 4 года назад

There's something interesting about physical media and accessories like this. Feels more like owning colectibles rather than media. There's a certain charm in printing custom labels for your music.

@kris.andrews 4 года назад

I used to spend ages making up and printing labels for my minidiscs, there was a kit (I think from Pressit) that had the front and spine labels on a sheet you could put through an inkjet printer. I would scan in CD covers and add track listings, they looked great at the time but have mostly peeled off now. Still have my MD player but doesn’t get used much these days.

@CoolKD2005 4 года назад

Cool device. This would have been something I would have bought beck in the day if it was for sale here in Norway. Thanks for your effort .

@pieroluciano3272 4 года назад

Wow, if only I had one of these back in the days! All of my MD labels were typed on a typewriter, centred of course, but they were only about 45% the size of the full label. I like the idea of just the Album name on the disc, not complicated at all! 👍 😎

@eldino Год назад

Very interesting machine and video to watch! It also make you think about how proprietary formats go against longevity. if this printer was using a standard label format, you could still use this device today!