I use my Sharp MD-SR60 to record MP3 streams or real audio archives of radio
shows and stuff like that. Lately I've been recording from
http://www.incorrectmusic.com/index.php3
I recommend it to anyone that wants to listen to the worst possible music
ever recorded -- so bad it's (unintentionally) funny. I connect to my
computer at work via analogue ports and sync record the shows. Then I listen
to the shows in the car or at home.
I also transfer CDs to MD sometimes, but I find the 1x speed of transfer to
be much less convenient than the faster more intelligent digital
transferring of CDs to MP3s.
MD is the best combination of affordability, ease of use, compactness, and
digital quality for recording anything live using microphones.
I use my MD to make field recordings using tiny stereo mics. I've attached
the mics to my sleeves and walked around capturing urban sounds, nature
sounds, snippets of conversations, etc. Ocassionally I'll use the mics to
record musicians in a bar, generally they are obscure acts and are
flatterred when I ask them for permission to record.
I play live music and use pre-recorded sounds from MDs as source material.
Sometimes we have 2 or more MDs mixed in and processed along with other
sounds from conventional as well as non-conventional instruments and sound
making devices. We even use a minidisc recorder to record these jam
sessions. I only wish there was a drag and drop solution for MD to computer
so that I could quickly get these jam sessions onto CD or into MP3 format
for posting and trading. I also wish portables had digital in/out for making
MD copies of jam sessions and field recordings.
My biggest problem with MD, as mentioned many times before, is it's lack of
intelligent digital interfacing with computers. It makes no sense to me why
I cannot have MD as a drive that I can drag and drop files to and from with
ease, speed and digital file coping. It really bugs me that Sony and all of
these other companies make digital transfer so difficult and claim it is a
way of protecting artists. What it ends up doing is making it very difficult
for starving and hobby artists, while ensuring that the recording industry
and their most wealthy "artists" can continue to maintain their bloated
greedy standard of living.
Enough ranting.
In general I love my MD. I often walk to work and in that half hour it is
really nice to have it in my pocket for listening or recording. I have
gotten a lot of use out of it since I first bought it. I really like the
editing capabilities. I like the cost of the media. I continue to use it all
the time and try to think of new uses for it.
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