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Minidisc in 2026

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Whilst tidying up and throwing out / clearing up a room in the house, I re-found my minidisc players and discs.  I then remembered that I did have a play around with a Mac and minidisc quite a few years back (2017), article HERE:  https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/p/sony-minidisc.html I wondered if I could still use this device as I have 100s of mini discs and this device allows you to RECORD too. Wow! how times have changed! A really cool person has made a web site application that can interface directly to the mini disc player from an Android phone using Chrome web-browser. https://web.minidisc.wiki/ Would be rude to not give it a go, wouldn't it. Here's the web site support page: https://www.minidisc.wiki/guides/webminidisc/start I plugged in an old USB cable to my Android phone, started up Chrome and entered the URL.  From the drop-down [Connect] box, it showed the NetMD device, awesome!  I believe I had to grant permissions and created a folder that can be u...