I record oral histories on mini discs, and now need to get those interviews onto my computer. I have a USB link for my Sony Mini Disc that allows me to download from the computer, but it doesn’t say ...

Sony made one mistake with the Mini Disc. It failed to release many titles from its vast Sony/CBS classical catalog. Naxos, a small New Jersey-based label, corrects that oversight with a passion. Not ...

Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be ...

The Sony Handycam series of camcorders enables entrepreneurs with little or no videography experience to create high-quality promotional or training videos and play them on standard TVs using cables ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

The Mini-Disc never caught on in the U.S. But during the 1990s, the format did in its native Japan, where MD isn’t yet dead. Launching in 1991, MD was the coolest format. It was like a compact disc, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp has developed a technology that boosts the recording capacity of its mini disc by ...

Streaming music platforms have been in the news quite a bit recently, and not for good reasons. A lot of people who use streaming music services (which includes virtually all of us) are also quite ...

Reader Lynn did the bad thing. She writes: I accidentally inserted a mini disc into my MacBook’s media slot. I can’t remove it. What should I do? If, like your MacBook, you had the ability to go back ...

Remember the mini-CD that was all rage in the 1990s when songs that dominated the charts in Japan all seemed to reach platinum status? Well, the 8-centimeter disc is making a comeback. At the ...