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minus-square@atomicpoetlinkEnglish3•5 hours agoThe format never made it big in Canada so I was oblivious. But I still have many Walkman models, and I love them.
minus-square@reddig33linkEnglish4•5 hours agoIt probably would have dominated the market for a good while if Sony hadnt taken so long to ship mini disk storage drives for computers.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•23 minutes agoNever heard of mini disk storage drives, but now I have to search if there is one that works on modern computers.
minus-square@AbidanYrelinkEnglish3•59 minutes agoSony also could have let them play mp3s. The last thing you wanted to do with a poorly encoded 128kbps mp3 was transcode it to another lossy format. But nobody was sharing atrac files.
The format never made it big in Canada so I was oblivious.
But I still have many Walkman models, and I love them.
It probably would have dominated the market for a good while if Sony hadnt taken so long to ship mini disk storage drives for computers.
Never heard of mini disk storage drives, but now I have to search if there is one that works on modern computers.
Sony also could have let them play mp3s. The last thing you wanted to do with a poorly encoded 128kbps mp3 was transcode it to another lossy format. But nobody was sharing atrac files.