Minidisc battery life
I knew minidisc players got great battery life but it is good enough that I could never really keep track of just HOW good it is. Lasting for so many listening sessions that I don't even recall when I last charged/changed the battery.
This is still not scientific but I have a better idea how ridiculously good it is. I listened to music on my Sony MZ-NE410 a few times throughout the week. I'll say maybe 4 hrs-ish total. Then I hooked it up to the speaker on the front porch at 7pm one night and forgot to turn it off before bed. Wake up the next morning and around 9am I realize it's still playing. So like 14 more hours there. Then I listened to music in the car while driving back and forth between our new and old place the next week, 1-1.5hrs one way. I think it was the last return trip that it finally died. This much play time from a single AA rechargeable battery!
re: Minidisc battery life
Screens eat battery and so does highpower networking like wifi and 3, 4, 5g.
But the engine in Minidisc does eat more than a solid state player does.
@Sandra Minidisc players have screens that provide the necessary info but no backlight. The rest of those things are unnecessary for a music player. I'm just lamenting what we *could* have if priorities were in the right place. 20 years ago we had this much efficiency and the improvements in the meantime have been squandered.
Mmmm. My mini disc player broke pretty quickly 💔.
I loved it when I had it. (90s.)
I have a memory with it when I lived in Manizales, my friends there leaving through my discs. Marilyn Manson, they're like "cool, The Matrix was a great movie". Penny Lane off the Beatles' blue collection, on the other hand… "The Beatles! *¡Satanico!*" with a whispered, getting-away-with-something grin.
@kelbot
Am I right in thinking that MD players were more efficient than cassette walkmans because they didn't need to run (as powerful) a motor?
@Sandra