I never had one of these when they were around, but I was always quietly fascinated by the format. And now—finally—I have my very first MiniDisc player.
There’s something incredibly satisfying about it. The sound still holds up surprisingly well, and those tiny discs? Absolutely adorable. I can’t stop picking them up and admiring how compact and clever they are.
What really blew me away, though, was connecting it to my Mac and actually transferring music to it over USB. I wasn’t expecting it to still work so smoothly.
It’s such a beautifully engineered little device—fits in the palm of my hand, powered by just a single AA battery, and yet feels like a complete music world of its own. It might be old tech, but to me, it feels like discovering a small piece of magic.