Minidiscs are pitiful

Minidiscs are pitiful

Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:09 UTC (Fri) by bk (guest, #25617)
In reply to: Minidiscs are pitiful by man_ls
Parent article: Sony's rootkit: an update

Minidisc is still alive in the rather small niche of (often clandestine) live recording. Most tapers use MD since it is relatively cheap, available and of decent quality despite the horrid ATRAC format.

Very well-to-do tapers use DAT which has widespread use in professional recording. Unfortunately it costs an arm and a leg (although, realistically, not that much more expensive than the high end iPods...) and is somewhat obscure. People who can afford DAT often know people and can get a soundboard feed, the result is basically studio-quality live recordings.

Smart frugal tapers use DAPs that have good built-in recording features (iPods unfortunately have crippled recording with the standard firmware), like (plug!) Rockbox running on an iRiver H1xx. Lossless, high quality recording up to the limits of the built-in 20 or 40GB hard drive.

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