Just over 20 years ago, MiniDiscs were the new audio format on the block: stylish, durable, and unfathomably cool, they could store a CDs-worth of audio and have each track named and loaded with marker points – what’s not to like?! Well, naming the tracks took a lot of button pushing, and early devices had no way of being connected to a PC – until now: the gmdrec is here to offer USB functionality to the MiniDisc after all these years!
Early MiniDisc players usually had a stack of buttons on the front panel, or used a cabled remote connected to the headphones to program and operate the device. Later models used NetMD – allowing them to interface with computers, but this product lets you program the titles, regardless of the age of your model! The circuit acts as a pseudo remote, using a Python script available on GitHub meaning you can finally name that acoustic live version of ‘Manic Street Preachers – If you tolerate this your children will be next’ which would ordinarily take you a half hour or so.
The beauty of this hardware/software combo is that it’s a one click operation: just make a playlist in a supported media player (see page for details) and gmdrec will convert the included songs and output the titling as button presses – genius! It’s the first product to be sold by fijam’s DIY corner and we’d love to see more of this kind of ingenuity.
source https://blog.tindie.com/2021/11/title-your-minidisc-tracks-with-ease-finally/
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