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GaryWiteWulf@cyberplace.social
Sep 22, 2026, 10:20 AM
@DJDarren well, that ended rather abruptly! Didn’t even give Feeder chance to finish 😳
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Big VimtooOOOooo 👻bigvimto@mendeddrum.org
Sep 22, 2026, 7:56 AM
@WiteWulf @DJDarren
I had two, so I'm double cool. Or at least I was. I don't think the coolness sticks around once they're gone.
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DJDarrenDJDarren@mendeddrum.org
Sep 22, 2026, 8:02 AM
@bigvimto @WiteWulf I still have one, which makes me excessively cool.
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DJDarrenDJDarren@mendeddrum.org
Sep 22, 2026, 10:31 AM
@WiteWulf Oh, really? It seems ok from this end...
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GaryWiteWulf@cyberplace.social
Sep 22, 2026, 10:55 AM
@DJDarren hmm, maybe summat weird with my setup, then. It just stopped partway through the song. Doesn’t usually 🤷‍♂️
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David Cohendavidbcohen@twit.social
Sep 22, 2026, 12:44 PM
@WiteWulf @DJDarren They were cool, and tbh I liked mine more then the iPod. But Sony killed it with their obsession with DRM
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DJDarrenDJDarren@mendeddrum.org
Sep 22, 2026, 12:55 PM
@davidbcohen @WiteWulf One of the more insane aspects of NetMD was having to check tracks in and out of SonicStage. I think you had three goes at it. So if you transferred music you bought over to a three discs that you then lost, you were shit out of luck.
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GaryWiteWulf@cyberplace.social
Sep 22, 2026, 12:57 PM
@DJDarren @davidbcohen nuts
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DJDarrenDJDarren@mendeddrum.org
Sep 22, 2026, 1:08 PM
@WiteWulf @davidbcohen It's been many years since I used it, but I think they updated SonicStage and removed that limitation not long after I got my first NetMD player. But yeah, it was definitely a thing for a while.
However, these days you can use a browser tool to copy tunes over, with no limitations beyond it being USB 2.0 at best, and therefore bloody slow.
https://web.minidisc.wiki/
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David Cohendavidbcohen@twit.social
Sep 22, 2026, 3:12 PM
@DJDarren @WiteWulf And all of their proprietary software looked and worked like ass.
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Andre LouisFreakyFwoof@universeodon.com
Sep 22, 2026, 3:14 PM
@davidbcohen @DJDarren @WiteWulf I had a High MD for a while, 1 whole gigabyte on a disk, mind blown!
Saving files from Sonic Stage though... Sucks!
I was recording my own material onto it and the thing was just slow. Can't remember if it was 1x when saving or slightly faster, but whatever it was, 'twern't quick.
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DJDarrenDJDarren@mendeddrum.org
Sep 22, 2026, 3:16 PM
@FreakyFwoof @davidbcohen @WiteWulf Yeah, mine's Hi-MD. I may even still have one Hi-MD disc with it.
And yeah, the transfer speeds are...not great.
At the time though, they were miraculous compared to having to record in real time.
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