My new (well second hand, but new for me) Merc has a minidisc player as well as a CD/DVD player (plus some other thing in the glove box with an eject button I haven’t worked out). The CD/DVD player and Minidisc player are cunningly hidden behind a large LCD display (that presumably plays the DVDs when one is inserted rather than displaying detailed info on what else I’m listening to) but as I can’t watch DVDs while driving I haven’t really played with that). The entire screen slides up to insert a CD and slides down to insert a minidisc, quite cool.
Anyway I obviously immediately decided I should create some minidisc compilations.
As Sony stopped making minidisc equiptment and the disks about 3yrs ago, finally giving up on the format as CD’s obviously won, it was rather hard to find a minidisc recorder. I found quite a few refurbished ones on amazon in the UK but none would ship to NZ. And then one popped up on TradeMe from a wellington seller; large autobid on; and I now have a minidisc recorder; its in as new condition as well with all the cables and manual.
Plus as minidiscs are no longer produced I ordered five of them from the UK to play with as you just cannot get them in NZ (they arrived from the UK in four days, better than NZ local mail); I must order some more while they are available as they are no longer being manufactured… and like CDs can only be written to once, so five may not last long.
Anyway, they don’t actually play much longer than CDs (well recorded in long play they could but I don’t know if the player in the car would support that) so it’s more a new toy than practical.
Anyway,fired up Asunder and mp3’ed lots of CDs. Having real trouble deciding what to put on a playlist though. Mixed some IceHouse+Enigma+TokioHotel+Hi-Nrg+Ultravox+Spandau-Ballet and had to start deleting stuff from the list as it was too long. I guess I will have to use a second disc for an Heavy Metal compilation. And then theres Cure, Meatloaf, Pat Benetar, Cyndi Lauper…. I have too many CDs and really don’t know where to start.
Anyway, as the guy that sold me the minidisc player/recorder put a new battery in it I should at least try it. I will record onto one of my new blank disks tomorrow morning, then play it in the car :-).
Can’t do it today as it’s in the bedroom and the dog is asleep on my lap so I can’t get it at the moment, priorities, dog and cat get what they want first, they are my family :-).
And I can’t drive anywhere today anyway. I expected to be paged out for the daylight savings changes overnight so stayed awake, until about 5am when I decided it must have all gone ok. My ‘family’ started fighting about 8am when the cat tried to eat the dogs food which always starts a war; so I was awake again then. And way too tired to start the car engine.
But I’ve had the car about six weeks and already put 5000k+ onto the odometer so I really should try for a compiled playlist rather than flipping CDs about (and no I don’t want to burn a music CD, wheres the fun in that… and most blank/compiled CDs in NZ “skip” if played in a CD player anyway (yes I did try); minidisc should be better).
