{"id":2433,"date":"2019-09-14T22:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2019-09-14T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:19:22","slug":"minidisc-torn-between-decluttering-and-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Minidisc &#8211; Torn Between Decluttering and Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From time to time I need to do some decluttering. I guess everybody does. Usually, it&#8217;s easy for me to decide between the things that I won&#8217;t need anymore and the ones that I want to keep. I know myself to be both fast and rigorous about these decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I stumbled across a box that broke my flow: my old MiniDisc collection and a Minidisc player. I know that all the money invested in the technology is lost (2 portable units, 1 Minidisc deck, one car stereo that had Minidisc, tons of Minidiscs, &#8230;) and I also know that I won&#8217;t use it any time soon, neither for recording nor for listening. Still, I seem unable to part with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC02370-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC02370-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC02370-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC02370-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC02370-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not even the Minidisc player that powered most of my teen years &#8211; that was a Sony MZ R50 and later a Sony MZ R90, which in terms of esthetics I only loved half as much as the R50. The discs, however, are the &#8220;originals&#8221;. I used to print labels for all of them with images that I scanned from the original CD. Most of them are blurry by now, as I only had an inkjet printer. I am humbled by how much time I must have spent on my Minidisc collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I am going to allow myself to keep the Minidisc box around for another while and thus postpone the decision to throw it out. Yep, that&#8217;s living on the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I need to do some decluttering. I guess everybody does. Usually, it&#8217;s easy for me to decide between the things that I won&#8217;t need anymore and the ones that I want to keep. I know myself to be both fast and rigorous about these decisions. 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