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Mini-disc players had up to 240hrs of play time on a single charge. No MP3 player has ever had more than about 30hrs of play. Not that I want to go back to mini
by gernb 4y ago
Mini-disc players had up to 240hrs of play time on a single charge. No MP3 player has ever had more than about 30hrs of play. Not that I want to go back to mini-disc but it's always been surprising to me that a device with moving parts would perform better than one without.
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- layer8 4y agoThe moving parts of a MiniDisc are extremely lightweight, and I’m pretty sure the whole electronics of portable MD players were optimized end-to-end to consume as little power as possible. The ATRAC codec was also designed to be implemented directly in silicon and to use minimal energy. MP3 hardware was likely significantly less power-efficient.
- dafelst 4y agoInterestingly Sony hardware and software to this day (even the PS5) still support ATRAC decoding.