I had a couple of MD players/recorders (they could do both from memory) back in the day - I still view them with a fondness I have never been able to muster for any other class of device.

Something about the size, intricate control buttons and switches, the jewelled MD disc case just made the whole thing delightful to me as a 15 year old.

Perhaps it was also due to me developing my own taste in music at the time that I am linking the nostalgia of that to the players themselves.

I have the same sense of nostalgic fondness for the hardware. The software, however, was terrible. If I had a nicer software solution for managing files on my MD, I might go dig it out of the closet.

If it has the NetMD feature you can do so in a web browser now: https://github.com/asivery/webminidisc