Ongoing History Daily: Whatever happened to the MiniDisc?
Even after the CD took off in the 1990s, the music and electronics industries were looking for the next format. Sony thought they had a solution with the MiniDisc, a
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Random music news for Saturday, March 26, 2022
Uh, nope. And no thanks to this, too. I’d rather just read music news for March 26, 2022. If you were ever a fan of the old CFNY Spirit of
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 925: The History of Portable Music, Part 2
There were three moments when I remembered looking at something in my hand realizing that it was going to change my life. The first time was on my sixth birthday
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Random music news for Thursday, August 2, 2018
It was on this day in 1990 that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. That ended poorly for everyone, of course. And here’s music news for August 2, 2018. Remember when big
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The Forgotten Format Wars of the Late 1990s
From the moment Edison unveiled his talking machine in August 1877, there was a race to create recordings with greater fidelity and realism. The technology led us from wax cylinders
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Audio Gear History: Remember the MiniDisc?
By the time we got to the middle 90s, people agreed that the CD was a pretty good thing. But shouldn’t home taping move into the digital age, too? With
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