This afternoons vinyl to Minidisc transfer, the Crush pinball series had fantastic music and hopefully one day we'll get the Jacki Crush Super Famicom soundtrack on vinyl to round out the trilogy.

Since I have a Japanese Minidisc deck it's only fitting that the first album I transfer is a Japanese band. "Action!" is a fantastic 80's metal band and this is their 1985 album "Heart Raiser", check out the track "The Stairway To Nowhere (The Devil's Trap)" that closes out the A-side of the LP.

The best type of employee.

Tonight's Minidisc to relax to.

Went out to lunch with my sister & niece and we saw this dope ass mystery machine.

Needed some relaxing music after the stress of this week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.