Everything about MiniDisc

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: MiniDiscA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Digital audio technologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Minidisc influence on flow variability in accreting spinning black hole binaries: simulations in full general relativityCited 21 times
4. Go sideways: Hi-MDA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: List of Sony Walkman productsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Minidisc influence on flow variability in accreting spinning black hole binaries: simulations in full general relativity

  Jane C Bright, Vasileios Paschalidis · 2023 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 21 citations

• The rewritable MiniDisc system

  T. Yoshida · 1994 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 19 citations

• Suitability of minidisc (MD) recordingsfor voice perturbation analysis

  William S. Winholtz, Ingo R. Titze · 1998 · Journal of Voice · 17 citations

• Recording of ECG signals on a portable MiniDisc recorder for time and frequency domain heart rate variability analysis

  S NORMAN, R EAGER, N WARAN · 2005 · Physiology & Behavior · 16 citations

• MINIDISC RECORDERS VERSUS AUDIOCASSETTE RECORDERS: A PERFORMANCE COMPARISON

  DAVID M. LOGUE, DAVID E. GAMMON, MYRON C. BAKER · 2005 · Bioacoustics · 6 citations

• THE PROPERTIES OF SONY RECORDABLE MiniDisc

  E. Ikeda, T. Tanaka, T. Chiba · 1993 · Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan · 6 citations

• Dead formats, living futures: Speculative nostalgia and the MiniDisc

  Richard Frenneaux · 2025 · New Media & Society · 1 citations

• A Versatile Minidisc Module for a Centrifugal Analyzer

  B W Renoe, R P Gregory, J Avery · 1974 · Clinical Chemistry · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Digital audio technologyJan Maes · 2001
• The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Mini-Disc PlayersPhilip M. Parker · 2006
• The 2007-2012 Outlook for Mini-Disc Players in IndiaPhilip M. Parker · 2006
• The 2007-2012 Outlook for MiniDisc Players in JapanPhilip M. Parker · 2006
• The 2007-2012 Outlook for Mini-Disc Players in Greater ChinaPhilip M. Parker · 2006
• Le MinidiscJan Maes · 2000
• The MiniDiscJan Maes · 1996
• Oxford Spellchecker Minidisc and New Hart's Rules (Dictionary) · 2006

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