The 10 Best Sony minidisk players (2023 reviews)

We consider a sony minidisk player to be a worthy investment in the long run. We are here to help you choose the right one for your needs from all the best available products in market today.

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Best Overall: Buy: Sony cool Player READ REVIEW

Best With Realone music Player: Buy: Sony MD Player READ REVIEW

Best With current PC softwares: Buy: Sony second MD Player READ REVIEW

Best For concert recording: Buy: Sony Minidisc Player READ REVIEW

Best For ripping songs: Buy: Sony Walkman recorder READ REVIEW

Best MD Player: Buy: Sony silver model READ REVIEW

Best CD Player: Buy: Sony CD Player READ REVIEW

Best For musicians: Buy: Sony netmd Player READ REVIEW

Best old school Minidisc Player: Buy: Sony minidisk Player READ REVIEW

Best With old minidiscs: Buy: Sony versatile Player READ REVIEW

Best Overall: Sony cool Player

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If you often find yourself confused about good player, this is your end point. This recorder can burn/play unlimited numbers of MP3's, and CD tracks. It's flexible, easy to use and sounds great. It improves audio quality in high frequencies over previous md compression schemes. It allows the user to fit twice or 4 times as much music on one minidisk, when in normal recording mode a whole CD can be fit on one minidisk.

It's form factor is nearly as small as flash memory MP3 players, it records from ANYTHING that makes sound, its extensive editing features are terrific and unique to the MD format, and the removable discs are inexpensive, re-recordable and nearly indestructible.

The MD player comes with a converter so you can convert the usb output to an optical signal that records clean. It is great to work around the house or to exercise.

• Very compact, small, and stylish player
• Excellent sound quality using the highest record speed
• Compact form factor, high skip resistance, durable media, high battery life
• Comes with headphones, battery, usb cable, pc software (no mac available), and one disc

Best With Realone music Player: Sony MD Player

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The sony md player has killer features for the price point. This recorder is just like the MZ-NF510 CK that comes with a car kit. It acts like an MP3 player inside a small little disc. The Bundled software helps you organize your music by artist, song, style, or tempo. The radio on the remote is a big bonus and it's quite efficient especially in areas of good reception.

This device also has AM/FM radio tuner, TV tuner, and weather which comes in handy if you don't want to miss your favorite TV show on your way to work. It makes labeling tracks and discs much easier. The included software is extremely easy to download and use. This is very useful for students, musicians, etc.

• You can also record directly from an audio source with the optical line input
• Lasts a long time with one battery
• One of the new comers and featured product

Best With current PC softwares: Sony second MD Player

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Best part: sony second md player costs comparatively low and it is available to ship in 24 hours. It is designed to be a "handheld" unit which can be a bit awkard for some sport uses. It includes music management software, reflective hand strap. The player controls put the 'joy' back in the 'joystick. Although the edges are a little sharp for comfort, the control makes it easy to get the track you want without looking at the player, and it's almost impossible to change the volume by accident.

One comes supplied with the md player, and that's the net md simple burner which allows you to transfer music cds to your md. This is very useful for use in dim lighting. The sound quality is amazing on LP2, and decent on LP. This is great player/ recorder for those who like to hear their playlist without cell service.

• Sound quality is clear as cds
• Attachment for belt clip or arm strap
• A sweet blue/purple irridescent color scheme

Best For concert recording: Sony Minidisc Player

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Sony is known for creating pragmatic and minimalist player for people on the go. Minidiscs are inexpensive and far more durable than CDs also, with identical sound quality. It can record off of a cumputer, the radio, cd's, tapes, whatever. It's less bulky than a portable CD player.

This model is easy and fun to use. It records the sound at a HIGH QUALITY rate and gives the recordings a smooth analog, and not digital edge. The tapes sound great and they record/play well. The unit is very small, but also very sturdy. It's also great for recording MP3s off of your computer just get a connection line from your sound card to the line in and you are set.

• A well used minidisc player, along with two aa batteries
• A very good device and reliable plus durable
• One of the new comers and featured product

Best For ripping songs: Sony Walkman recorder

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate player. The product is exactly that - it's a simple product that hits all the right notes. The sound quality of this Hi-MD player is fantastic. It is compatible with hi-md (1gb) blanks and conventional md blanks reformatted to 300mb. It features easy-jog dial navigation to add to that includes a free md-case4 carrying case. It uses a standard single AA battery which lasts an incredable 25 hours. The controls, while small, actually work quite well, though.

The jog-dial is very convenient when browsing a massive list of songs on a 1GByte disc. It isn't as wide a selection as with mp3 rippers, but the extra choice is nice. It comes with this one you can only go directly from a computer to it.

• Works great and the software is easy to understand
• Great sound, perfect alternative to ipod
• Sound quality is excellent for compress music
• Runs on a single aa battery for days

Best MD Player: Sony silver model

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The sony silver model is capable of outshining several other products featured in this list in overall features in its price range. Minidiscs are just great, beat the pants off CDs and MP3 for portable music. This little machine sounds really good (a lot better than tape, and indistinguishable from CD), loooks really cool, and has all the features that any nerd, sorry, technophile, could possibly want.

You can use this unit to record mp3's, soundfiles and all sorts of stuff off the net as well. It makes excellent copies when recording your own CD and the quality of sound on the playback is excellent. It is small and light and wonderful to carry around. They both share adaptors, and one is always near the stereo for playing through big bass speakers. This is a great mini dosk player. It can play nonstop for 20 minutes and then skip for the next 20 minutes.

• Having good sound wherever you are is a great plus
• Super cd player,as long as you don't exercise with it
• Tiny, tiny recorder/player with excellent battery life and great features

Best CD Player: Sony CD Player

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Compared with other products by Sony, the sony cd player has a convenient design. It's great to be able to consolidate everything onto this minidisc player with great battery life. This model is capable of both regular and HD disks. It has a wealth of information on mini discs. It lets you skip tracks or raise the volume without getting sweat on the player at the gym.

This is a top notch audio editing software, which can amplify, reduce, adjust and remove or reduce any glitches, dead time etc., and separate your large audio file into single tracks, which may be saved as mp3 files to burn to cd. The sound is still superb and you are given about 2 and a half hours worth of music.

These functions all means that this is compatable with mp3 but you just save it in your Blank Mini Disc.

• Great cd player replacement, beats any memory based device
• Great mp3 player and personal recorder
• Sound quality even in lp2 mode is as good as an 256kbps mp
• Perfect replacement for a cd player

Best For musicians: Sony netmd Player

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Compared with other products by Sony, the sony netmd player has a convenient design. If you really need a minidisc player, this one will work quite well. It takes a long time and also it is true battery life folks. The Minidiscs can carry up to 5 hours of music at minimumbit rate mode, in which the quality of the songs have no apparent change. The software supports conversion of mp3, wav and wma formats to atrac3, so you can record directly to the device at up to 32x speeds.

It is built to be efficient, and you'll get up to 56 hours of continuous playback with one aa battery. The volume gets plenty loud and the ear buds that come with it are good quality.

• Very simple device no frills, just great tunes
• Up to 56 hours on a single aa battery
• Small enough to fit in a pocket and does not skip
• Very easy to use piece of machinery

Best old school Minidisc Player: Sony minidisk Player

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The sony minidisk player is satisfactory and appropriate and fits well with your regular usage. Sonic Stage lets you keep a media library, buy and download music and many other things. It fits much more music on one disc. Its USB connection delivers burn rates at up to 32x for your mp3s and cds. It makes it virtually impossible to scratch it.

The Simple burner also lets you put songs in its own group and name the entire disc including each group. It weighs about 4 ounces and is very compact. It would be nicer if it had a carrying case or a way to attach to a belt.

• Each disc can store about five hours of music
• New and hot release

Best With old minidiscs: Sony versatile Player

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate player. The product is exactly that - it's a simple product that hits all the right notes. If you have prerecorded minidiscs that you like, this is one of the best portable devices. This mini disk player will obliterate any ipod ever made. It includes backlit lcd tuner/remote with editing functions. When you want to record, the usb connection delivers burn rates at up to 100x for your mp3s and cds.

It comes with Sony's advanced atrac3plus compression, more audio files can be burned to hi-md media or for that matter, to a standard minidisc. You can even store data from your computer, such as documents and presentations, on this player via its usb interface. The transfer speed is very good. The unit is really sleek and sturdy.

• Over 7 hours of music using atrac3 256kbps, 2nd highest quality, and sounds beautiful
• You can drag and drop files
• You can record from literally almost any source of sound
• Lightweight, good battery life, good sound