Yes, yes it did. Despite Sony's firm belief that MiniDisc - a format offering the quality of a CD with the recordable functionality of a casette - would be the Next Big Thing™, it was ...

MiniDisc also leveraged an early proprietary audio codec, ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding), to get CD-length recordings to fit on the tiny discs. Though MiniDisc saw some success in ...

In the early 1990s, several different digital magnetic tape formats came onto the scene. The MiniDisc was magneto-optical, yes, but back in the day it was amazing for recording bootlegs.

The minidisc singles are referred to as “tanzaku ... But production is rebounding. CD production company CDPress.Me has been making 8-cm CDs in small lots on a made-to-order basis since July ...