Found something pretty cool today in the cassette/CD section. A pre-recorded MiniDisc! I don't know a lot about MiniDisc but I thought it was mostly to make your own recordings as it was a very high quality way to record audio at the time. Much better than cassettes. I didn't know there were pre-recorded MiniDisc albums you could buy. The one I found was "Joe Cocker - One night of Sin" can't say I'm really familiar with him or any of the songs but that doesn't matter, I was just excited to find a MiniDisc!
Several years ago, probably around 2013 I bought a Sony MDS-JE510 MiniDisc player/recorder for $10. I had never seen one for sale before so I figured I'd add it to the collection since it was only $10. I kind of remember something being wrong with it though. So it has been sitting out in the garage for the last 5 years or so because I never found any MiniDiscs for it. Until today!
I brought it in the house and cleaned it up and plugged it in. It immediately started making a horrible clicking sound. Well this kind of sucks, I really wanted to be able to play a MiniDisc. So I look it up online and find several other people with the same problem but no real solution. I do see that a lot of them are saying it only clicks when there is no disc inserted. That if you leave a disc inserted it will play it fine and stop making that clicking noise. I was afraid to put the disc in before as I thought it might damage it somehow. So I plug it back in and pop the disc inside. It loads it just fine and shows Joe Cocker on the screen! I plugged in an old set of headphones and it was playing it perfectly. I skipped through the tracks and they were all playing fine. It even tells you the title of each track on the screen of the player.
Even though I wasn't really interested in the music of Joe Cocker it was fun to listen to music on a format that I had previously never used before. The Joe Cocker MiniDisc album only cost me 35 cents. So it was well worth the price
I put in a bid on a cheap 3 pack of blank MiniDiscs. I'll probably end up selling the player/recorder and Joe Cocker, but before I do I thought I'd try out recording some of my own discs just for fun.
