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It's ok everybody your life will be in my rough, working man hands soon. They got me taking this boring as fuck 24hr course but at least I get a $2 raise out of it when I finish.

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Think I figured out why that one recordable minidisc wouldn't play sound, possibly was recorded in LP mode, hence the 138min run time on a 74min disc, and my player doesn't support MDLP recording or playback. Mystery solved? Probably? Maybe?

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We have audio! Hearing this deck play audio made me feel so good, was worried my string of bad luck with hi-fi gear was gonna peg me again. You can't tell from the video but fuck Minidisc sounds beautiful. I've always wanted a player since the 90's but they were so expensive in the US and the format never took off here. Really blows me away how this format failed in the states, it's the perfect replacement to the compact cassette. Digital audio on par with CD plus it's recordable, whats not to love about it? I just wish I hadn't got in to this format so late, the aftermarket price for media is absolutely insane, I like Stabbing Westward as much as the next person but $100 for a sealed copy is outrageous. This is def gonna be a format I use to record to, that Silent Hill soundtrack cassette needs to be on MD with a custom label made for it.

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Episode 2 of "Minidisc Theater", fingers crossed that we can get audio from it now that I got a retail album to try. Side quest today will be adding this MD to the Discogs database since it's surprisingly missing.

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Absolutely slamming my head against the wall trying to get this shit to work. Player works, 7 of the discs are blank, 2 give a "Disc Error" message and 1 pulls up a TOC showing 10 tracks at 138 minutes. That 138min disc confuses me though, when I push play I get no audio and it's a 74min disc that it's recorded to. Was it recorded with a Hi-MD deck? I have a copy of Misato Watanabe's Tokyo coming in the mail so hopefully a pre-recorded, retail album will play nice. Once the cassette deck comes back from getting repaired want to try and back some tapes up to MD.

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DLC for Doom: The Dark Ages is pretty great, sucks that a chunk of the staff that worked on it got laid off right after it was released.

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Until I get my CD player fixed gonna see how this old PSOne works as a replacement. Have any of ya'll used one of these early model Playstations as an audio CD player? I've always heard people rave about how good this model was for music CD's but never tried it out myself.

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Of course the moment I get a new piece of Japanese electronics I can't find my damn spare step-down convertor.

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R.I.P. Bonnie Tyler.

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Sony killing physical discs for Playstation in 2028 means I will never buy another game console, it was a fun 36 years for me but nah I'm good, I'll never buy a digital only console. Piracy clearly is the only answer when it comes to any media at this point.

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I celebrated the 4th of July like a true American. Chik-Fil-A for breakfast, Chinese takeaway for lunch and Quake 2 on the N64.

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Version 1.40 update for the Analogue 3D added support for screenshots, gonna have to go back to Duke Nukem: Zero Hour and grab a few screens.

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Spare Time Repair on YouTube is interested in taking a look at my Sony CD player that crapped out on me!

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I must have angered the gods, the remote I ordered for my Sony CD player came in the mail and now the player won't read discs. I just wanted to listen to Mayhem's Live In Sarpsborg damnit! Now I really need to figure out how to unhinge the top of the case to get at the optical pickup and lens.

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Of course now that it's 100 degrees they want us to replace cameras on the roof.

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Been playing a lot of N64 recently since getting the Analogue 3D console and realized that the N64 is 30 years old as of this week. Jesus Christ I'm old as fuck lol.