MiniDisc

minidisc English Etymology en :af mini- disc + 1 Noun ~ en uncountable A magnetooptical format for storing digital audio. en 1997 Electronic musician 13 8—12 10 This convinces me that MiniDisc is a format whose time has come and gone. When MiniDisc first came out, I was very excited at the existence of an erasable disc format for music. en 1999 High fidelity news and record review 44 1—12 15 Or you could buy the FW538 system stack, which Philips sees as CD-RW's big weapon in its lone fight against the rising tide of MiniDisc, for £449.95. 2001 Michael Talbot-Smith Sound Engineering Explained http://books.google.com/books?id=gyT5jV39z9UC 163 It is doubtful whether it's possible with MiniDisc to do the very fine editing that's possible with full-size tape, where, as we've said, a good editor can take out fractions of a second of a recording by cutting. en countable A disk that uses this format. 2000 Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes MP3! http://books.google.com/books?id=1O5LAAAAYAAJ 387 So the recording is real time: To get an hour of music on a MiniDisc, it'll take you an hour. If you go for the MiniDisc and Voquette MiniDisc NetLink solution, you'll probably want to build a collection of MiniDiscs rather than recording music to a MiniDisc temporarily, the way you download music to an ultraportable MP3 player. 2000 Jim Taylor DVD demystified http://books.google.com/books?id=ShlGAQAAIAAJ 388 Because MiniDiscs are in a shell, they can be handled easily without fear of fingerprints and scratches. MiniDiscs are about 3 inches across, making them very easy to use and to store. 2002 John Watkinson An introduction to digital audio http://books.google.com/books?id=XxLmNfi8JCkC 385 Recordable MiniDiscs make the recording as flux patterns in a magnetic layer. However, the disks need to be pregrooved so that the tracking systems can operate. en countable A MiniDisc player or recorder. 2003 Jon Konrath Tell Me a Story about the Devil ― Selected Journals, 1997—1999 http://books.google.com/books?id=rEPw6oH9f4IC 137 It'll be nice to travel with a MiniDisc, too. A MiniDisc, a GameBoy, a camcorder, a cellphone—I think RoboCop hauled around less gear. 2005 Steve Shipside Win at the gym http://books.google.com/books?id=Ywh-mPHYOBgC 28 I have a MiniDisc which I rest on the treadmill/stepper but it still jogs – how do I stop it? 2008 Mape Ollila Once Upon a Nightwish ― The Official Biography 1996—2006 http://books.google.com/books?id=MMaecGS2bFsC 169 Tuomas suggested to me that WE buy a MiniDisc for Marco's backing vocals in Sinergy. We can't do that for two reasons. First of all, it's not exactly like we just have money being thrown at us to afford these things, and secondly, we prefer to play everything live. Synonyms en MD en minidisc See also en minidisk