It’s 1992, you’re holding a disc the size of a business card, encased in a protective shell that clicks satisfyingly shut. You slide it into a sleek silver machine, and suddenly you’re not just playing music, you’re editing it, naming tracks, rearranging them on the fly, all with the clarity of CD audio. This wasn’t science fiction (well, it was back in the early 90’s, we guess not now) this was the Sony MiniDisc, and for a brief moment, it looked like the future of audio.
Twelve years after Sony finally discontinued the format in 2013, the MiniDisc remains one of the most loved pieces of music technology ever…
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