Minidisc

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-003680",
  "term": "Minidisc",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A magneto-optical disc-based data storage format for digital audio, housed in a plastic cartridge similar to a floppy disk. It combined the portability of cassettes with the random-access capabilities of a compact disc, allowing for non-linear editing and recording. The format used a proprietary audio compression scheme called Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) to fit audio onto the smaller disc.",
  "synonyms": [
    "MD"
  ],
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "MiniDisc",
    "es": "minidisc",
    "fr": "MiniDisc"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/minidisc/"
}