Re: Minidisc
NetMD and Minidisc in the Vaio: An example of Sony Electronics losing the plot courtesy of Sony Media:
1) You lose the recordable disk and you can't transfer album again, because you have have to "check in" and erase the track(s).
2) You make your OWN recordings: Interview, own music, own poetry etc. You can only transfer via headphone socket on NetMD and can't read electronically from minidisk.
I was shocked that my Digital 8 camera let me transfer analogue or digital recordings to the PC via firewire, or even composite inputs.
CD ripping? Because there are no optical drives on laptops now and anyway people using phones & tablets.
Last year and year before the high street shops full of cassette & record players with USB. Some with "ripping" to SDcard built in. Don't know why the record players have a 78 rpm speed, because they don't have a suitable stylus.