Lost a bet the other day, - as a friend told me, that he was convinced, that
The Stones had Minidisc-released several albums . . . .

I said "This can´t be true, - then I would have heard of those, - or ran into
some of them, - during my heavily collecting Stones " - !

The boy was Right ! - so I must have been sleepwalking, - or those releases
are pretty rare, - and never spoken much of, - among collectors . . .

It´s unclear to me, how many titles were released, - I have found 8, -
with Sticky Fingers as the earliest, - and Bridges To Babylon as the latest.

Any of you out there who are familiar with those releases ? -
and first of all can tell us : "How does they sound" ? ? ?
- the media itself should be lower quality than the CD, - but better than
the CompactCassette . . .
and were there made a special mastering for the Minidiscs ?

All info are more than welcome !

Heavy prices on ebay...like this for $250:

They sound more compressed than the cassettes.

Never had one of those releases, but was aware of their existence.
Anyway my Sony-MD-Deck died a long time ago...

I have Some Girls, Sticky fingers, It's Only rock and Roll, and Jump Back on mini disc. I play them on my portable mini disc player/recorder with head phones. The eq can be adjusted to taste.

To me they sound like the CDs, nothing different, no different mixes, very clear stereo sound.
Limited production, hence a little costly to buy, nice for collectors, but nothing special otherwise.

Sticky Fingers Super Minidisc




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2026-04-25 19:40 by schillid.

Wow. Had no idea!

I thought minidisc was mainly for recording. Concert recordings or taping conversations and lectures. Maybe it had a niche as a Walkman type of player.

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I thought minidisc was mainly for recording. Concert recordings or taping conversations and lectures. Maybe it had a niche as a Walkman type of player.

Or a non-portable player in your stereo system.

I had No Security on mini disc

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exhpart

No Security on mini disc

Indeed -- not listed (yet) on Discogs.com, but to be found on Amazon and eBay:


[www.amazon.de]


[www.ebay.co.uk]


[www.ebay.co.uk]


[www.amazon.de]


More pictures of the No Security - MiniDisc on [www.stonestreff.com] .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-07-31 17:45 by Irix.

Thanks a lot for all your inputs !

- and to deardoctortake1 for giving an impression of the sound quality !

It appears to be the mastering of ´93 - ´94 that is used for those Minidiscs.

I´ll add IORR and TY to the list, - but the Minidisc-releases seems to have been
quite sporadic , - with a few titles in Japan, - USA and Europe, - and having
searched the web, - it seems quite unlikely, that the whole album production -
1971 - 1994, - was released.




(Pictures from Discogs archive)

Here is the oddest release I have found, -
a Japan-release of a 3-track "Rain Fall Down"-Promo - 2006
- which must be the absolutely latest Minidisc release !




(Photos from eil.com)

Well, - this was an, - to me - absolutely unknown chapter of
The Rolling Stones - releases, -
Thanks for joining !



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-08-04 00:59 by HenrikBB.

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BTW - I simply LOVE this picture !
- That is what you can call a MINIDISC !

Thank You schillid !

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HenrikBB

That is what you can call a MINIDISC !

And with this new "MicroDisc" you can now have the whole Stones-Discography in lossless HiRes-Format on the mobile Player ....



In 2016 it was just 256 GB microSD-Card .... but in 2026 it's 2 TB microSD-Card.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2026-04-26 16:55 by Irix.

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That is what you can call a MINIDISC !

And with this new "MicroDisc" you can now have the whole Stones-Discography in lossless HiRes-Format on the mobile Player ....


SanDisk 256 GB microSD-Card


Samsung 256 GB microSD-Card

Of course I am deeply impressed by the technological progress -
(as a matter of fact, - I had a colleque who predicted this in 1983, -
as he couldn´t understand why they developed the CD, - another physical object
that was spinning around - to replace the vinyls, when you could simply have a little fingernail-size object to put in a "machine" . . ) -
BUT -
old a#s-hole me . . . .
it´s so UNROMANTIC !

I love my vinyls and CDs !

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Thank You schillid !

They can make them even smaller than that now ...




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2026-04-25 19:41 by schillid.

Not answering the OT, but a friend recently turned me on to the Japanese SHM CD format - which has outstanding sound quality!

got all the mini disc why no EXILE on minidisc, too long?

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got all the mini disc why no EXILE on minidisc, too long?

- Please give us all Minidisc-released titles that you are aware of !

Emotional Rescue MiniDisc:


[www.ebay.com]


[www.ebay.com]

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HenrikBB

Please give us all Minidisc-released titles that you are aware of !

Template:


Sticky Fingers

It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll

Some Girls

Emotional Rescue

Tattoo You

Flashpoint

Jump Back

Bridges to Babylon

No Security

'Rain Fall Down' (Promo-MD, 2006)

Japanese import ... microscopic Dirty Work





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I have the same as the list above looks like EXILE did not come out on mini disc.

Do any IORR members have any they'd like to sell?

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kish_stoned
I have the same as the list above looks like EXILE did not come out on mini disc.

Actually, EOMS exists on MD.
And currently it is 'not that expensive' in Japan. But for sure the price will be doubled after all the fees - proxy, shipping, VAT etc.
[buyee.jp]
Still, with the initial price of ¥2300, the current one firmly places it into a category of 'crazy collector's only.'

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Actually, EOMS exists on MD.

This Japanese MD version is also listed on [Discogs.com] .