ATRAC
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Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony. MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC, in 1992. ATRAC allowed a r
An ATRAC3plus CD playing on a Sony car stereo.
MiniDisc
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MiniDisc is a discontinued erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio.
ATRAC
…Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony. MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC, in 1992. ATRAC allowed a relatively small disc like MiniDisc to have the same running time as a…
MiniDisc by TDK, with AA battery for scale
The Sony MZ1, the first MiniDisc player, released in 1992.
Pioneer MiniDisc car receiver
Sony Hi-MD Recorder MZ-RH1, released 2006