Put out by H&A Media (German multimedia agency and manufacturer of CD-ROM business cards and promotional tools.)
Shaped CDs are usually made for marketing purposes and are read by most CD-ROM drives (and audio CD players, although custom-shaped CDs tend to contain less data).
It's a CD. You sometimes used to get novelty shaped ones (they just need to be balanced so they don't brake the player) CD player trays were designed for normal size CDs and smaller half sized CDs.
I've still got one, and a giant spool of unused mini DVDs that it uses. The crappy part is that they record in a format that can only be decoded by the camera, so I have to connect the camera to my PC to decode it into an mp4 rather than just use software on the PC to decode it directly from the disk.
To be fair a minidisc does not fit or work in a cdrom, not only is it a totally different size the laser is non compatible between cdrom and minidisc 😉
Thats actually what im saying, that a cd is smaller in size doesnt make it a minidisc. Minidisc is definitely great and im still using them but sadly blank minidiscs arnt being made anymore, before they were expensive but now even more so 🤣
I don't know about now but the CD ROM drives you used to get literally had a smaller size on the tray in the center that you could easily use in most computers and they work like your typical CDs they even had rewritable mini disk back then I don't know if they still have all that now anymore it's been quite a while since I needed to burn a CD, they don't use any different laser at all, or didn't then, they also had significantly less space though
Thats true but a minidisc is not a cd, a dvd is not a cd, a vinyl record is not a cd so the round shape might look the same but all of them work different 🤣
The round shape has nothing to do with it when mini CDs came out they were literally the exact same protocol as a CD-ROM they were just smaller to be more portable you acting like I'm saying the shape has anything to do with it is silly
Mini cd is a more acceptable term then minidisc, and your "mini" cd has nothing to de with making it more portable but has to do with it mainly being demos with very little information on it so to make more of them pound for pound in plastic was cheaper 🤣
For the trained eye there is a small difference between the two sizes in cd at the top and the single size minidisc at the bottom, some people might need glasses to notice the subtle difference but on average people can see the difference in a quick glance 🤣
Correcting someone isnt for the sake of argument, as something has wheels and a engine you cant always refer to it as a car coz it can be a motorcycle truck airplane etc etc 🤣
I remember you could buy a "business card" CD-ROM, to burn promotional stuff to and print a business card on the label and hand them out. you could also copy your resume onto it and apply for jobs with it...
I swear when White Pony came out by Deftones there was a mini CD with a music video on it I think. But I’m the only one who seems to remember that. I even tried googling it once but never found confirmation.
Put out by H&A Media (German multimedia agency and manufacturer of CD-ROM business cards and promotional tools.)
Shaped CDs are usually made for marketing purposes and are read by most CD-ROM drives (and audio CD players, although custom-shaped CDs tend to contain less data).
In a previous life... I actually was responsible for the creation of several of these kinds on mini cds. I wrote promotional games and multimedia for marketing purposes for the company i worked for. We were in the credit card industry, so ours were more or less credit card shaped with credit card type graphics screen printed on top. I actually think I have a few of these in a closet as a keepsake. As for breaking players, most did not, because they were well balanced and sized to sit centered in the inner indentation of a cd-rom tray. Most of the time these were made for PCs with "cupholder" cd trays that slide out. Inserting it into an auto feeder was definitely not recommended.
I remember getting one of those as a brochure for one of the local high schools when I was in 8th grade. That was back in '04. It was the same size as a business card, just with rounded ends. I'm sure these days they've moved on to passing out stickers with QR codes or something
remarkable, right ? sad he died in poverty .. he would have a net worth of $35M today, despite his compositions being in the public domain for centuries ..
Damn dude. I'm really sorry to hear that. I also had a pretty fucked up childhood. Both of my parents were junkies and there were some pretty horrific times associated with it. Watched my mom die at 16. Fucking crazy.
I feel for you and hope everything is going good for now. You ever wanna talk about the really horrific times and reminisce shoot me a DM.
I appreciate it bro. Im in therapy and deep into doing the work on my own outside of that to become a person capable of recieving and giving love. Hoping someday I can find peace. Sorry to hear about yours. My family was mostly just emotionally absent, so it took a while to learn that my traumas centered around what wasnt there as opposed to what was. Hope your life is better now as well.
You be ok. Bitches need to bitch. Let them tire themselves out, they'll eventually poop and fall asleep
I'm guessing it's a promotional something or other or a piece of art by someone.
It could still be a data disk, but for pretty unique and large disk trays. Also, the data written to the parts at the 'disk's' extremities could not be read by a traditional disc laser
most people recognize a CD, I've been aware of them since I was like 3, I'm 16 now and I've never seen a CD shaped like that before. I knew it was a CD but like what the heck
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The animal House DVD that we had was shaped very funny. Like a pyramid with squiggly sides it's very odd but cool at the time. It was the first and only DVD I ever saw shaped differently than the typical circle until just now even though this is the CD same concept.
If you’re wondering why it works, CDs are read from the center out, so the shape doesn’t matter. For comparison, vinyl records play from the outside in.
I have one of these shaped CDs! Mine is of Brian from the Backstreet Boys. I think there was one music track and the rest was a few random interviews, lol
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It's a CD. You sometimes used to get novelty shaped ones (they just need to be balanced so they don't brake the player) CD player trays were designed for normal size CDs and smaller half sized CDs.
Remember when those little points and click cameras all had those 1/4 sizes CDs that came with the software?
You can actually still buy mini disc like that and most CD ROM drives these days still have the small slot for them even to this day.
I used them for small files just cuz they're cool somebody was telling me you could even get mini DVDs like that but I don't know if that's true
https://a.co/d/77gX524
True
Would those work in a psp? 🤔
PSP used the incompatible UMD format.
One of my friends used to have a Sony camera that recorded to those mini DVDs!
Probably MiniDisc (since that's Sonys thing), not DVDs.
DVDs are purely optical, i.e. data is both stores and read optically. Minidisc are magneto-optical. Data is stored magnetically but read optically.
It was mini DVD-Rs :) kinda like this one at around 8:45. Sony did some wild stuff lol
Oh damn, I had no idea they did that!!! That's freaking cool!
I've still got one, and a giant spool of unused mini DVDs that it uses. The crappy part is that they record in a format that can only be decoded by the camera, so I have to connect the camera to my PC to decode it into an mp4 rather than just use software on the PC to decode it directly from the disk.
I used them because you could mail them in a business envelope.
To be fair a minidisc does not fit or work in a cdrom, not only is it a totally different size the laser is non compatible between cdrom and minidisc 😉
You are confusing Sony Minidisc and what the person above referred to as a disk that is in fact mini.
I loved my Minidisc by the way. One of the lost mediums I truly wish still had a realistic purpose.
Thats actually what im saying, that a cd is smaller in size doesnt make it a minidisc. Minidisc is definitely great and im still using them but sadly blank minidiscs arnt being made anymore, before they were expensive but now even more so 🤣
But no one said or referred to the old minidisc. A mini disc is a disc that is small. Note the space.
DM me and I'll send you my box of blanks if I can find them. My player died long ago and do not believe I could bring myself to throw out the media.
The one did actually said mini disc and not small cd 🤣
I appreciate the offer but i cant imagine i will be lucky enough to be in the same country as you 🤣
You might be surprised when you put them on ebay or something how fast the will sell 😉
Minidisc had to be played with the body/case on them correct? What they're talking about is a cd3.
Edit- never mind I found it. 😆
I don't know about now but the CD ROM drives you used to get literally had a smaller size on the tray in the center that you could easily use in most computers and they work like your typical CDs they even had rewritable mini disk back then I don't know if they still have all that now anymore it's been quite a while since I needed to burn a CD, they don't use any different laser at all, or didn't then, they also had significantly less space though
Thats true but a minidisc is not a cd, a dvd is not a cd, a vinyl record is not a cd so the round shape might look the same but all of them work different 🤣
The round shape has nothing to do with it when mini CDs came out they were literally the exact same protocol as a CD-ROM they were just smaller to be more portable you acting like I'm saying the shape has anything to do with it is silly
Please read all this information before you stop reading so that you can understand it was the same exact protocol.
https://preview.redd.it/rgv5iapkrz6g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0d563892a9782bca5a2fdb55d13edd7d209f706
So the obvious difference is that a minidisc is not a mini cd, exactly like what i was saying 🤣
Mini cd is a more acceptable term then minidisc, and your "mini" cd has nothing to de with making it more portable but has to do with it mainly being demos with very little information on it so to make more of them pound for pound in plastic was cheaper 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/b0w89n7kb07g1.jpeg?width=2460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=125c970c21574c4ee726b3ad5394fc50fe991fe5
For the trained eye there is a small difference between the two sizes in cd at the top and the single size minidisc at the bottom, some people might need glasses to notice the subtle difference but on average people can see the difference in a quick glance 🤣
You just want to argue and I don't give a shit anymore 😘
Correcting someone isnt for the sake of argument, as something has wheels and a engine you cant always refer to it as a car coz it can be a motorcycle truck airplane etc etc 🤣
you'll note that he said mini disk, not MiniDisk
He most certainly will not note that.
Or literally any Game Cube game disc.
I was too poor for that lifestyle. 😂
I remember you could buy a "business card" CD-ROM, to burn promotional stuff to and print a business card on the label and hand them out. you could also copy your resume onto it and apply for jobs with it...
I loved those little cds. Japan put out singles on them and occasionally a bonus track bundled with the full album.
I have Depeche Mode, Personal Jesus on a tiny cd
I swear when White Pony came out by Deftones there was a mini CD with a music video on it I think. But I’m the only one who seems to remember that. I even tried googling it once but never found confirmation.
“Break “
Ah, the good old novelty shaped CD, aka the bearing-killer 9000
I remeber being told to never put these in the car CD player because the ejection wouldnt work. Never risked it lol
It appears to be this: https://www.kupindo.com/Audio-diskovi/82380597_W-A-MOZART-redak-SHAPE-CD-interesantan-oblik
Put out by H&A Media (German multimedia agency and manufacturer of CD-ROM business cards and promotional tools.)
Shaped CDs are usually made for marketing purposes and are read by most CD-ROM drives (and audio CD players, although custom-shaped CDs tend to contain less data).
thanks!
In a previous life... I actually was responsible for the creation of several of these kinds on mini cds. I wrote promotional games and multimedia for marketing purposes for the company i worked for. We were in the credit card industry, so ours were more or less credit card shaped with credit card type graphics screen printed on top. I actually think I have a few of these in a closet as a keepsake. As for breaking players, most did not, because they were well balanced and sized to sit centered in the inner indentation of a cd-rom tray. Most of the time these were made for PCs with "cupholder" cd trays that slide out. Inserting it into an auto feeder was definitely not recommended.
I remember getting one of those as a brochure for one of the local high schools when I was in 8th grade. That was back in '04. It was the same size as a business card, just with rounded ends. I'm sure these days they've moved on to passing out stickers with QR codes or something
Never knew he only lived to 35
remarkable, right ? sad he died in poverty .. he would have a net worth of $35M today, despite his compositions being in the public domain for centuries ..
He was a genius and did more than everything in 35 years what a normal person would have achieved in 80 years. It seems I will live long!
Its just a CD, only use it in a player with a spindle that you can pop it onto otherwise you WILL break your player
It's a cd player breaker. It will break just about any car cd player. It will work in most tray cd players. Mostly it's landfill. Or a sun catcher.
Fun for target shooting too, can’t tell you how many AOL CDs I shot.
AOL cds are the greatest for target practice. Fact check: True
I burned them with a lighter and pushed "bubbles" into them and hung them on my mom and dad's Xmas tree.
Lol yeah when they shipped my ass off at 15 they quickly discarded my "decorations".
Ahh, youth, depression, drug abuse, aol cd's. What a time to not want to be alive
Damn dude. I'm really sorry to hear that. I also had a pretty fucked up childhood. Both of my parents were junkies and there were some pretty horrific times associated with it. Watched my mom die at 16. Fucking crazy.
I feel for you and hope everything is going good for now. You ever wanna talk about the really horrific times and reminisce shoot me a DM.
I appreciate it bro. Im in therapy and deep into doing the work on my own outside of that to become a person capable of recieving and giving love. Hoping someday I can find peace. Sorry to hear about yours. My family was mostly just emotionally absent, so it took a while to learn that my traumas centered around what wasnt there as opposed to what was. Hope your life is better now as well.
😂
*you have mail!
also a rare novelty release
Oh god, we have officially reached the point where Gen Z doesn’t even recognize a CD
December 13, 2025. We had a good run as a planet.
I grew up with CD's but I've never seen one shaped like that!
I'm approaching my 40's, and never saw a non-circular CD before. This isn't a generational thing.
This isn’t a normal CD. Gen Z grew up gaming on CDs and Blu-rays. Your juvenoia is cringe. In 30 years I’ve never once seen a CD shaped like this
It’s easy enough to tell what it is, though
This screams dramatic millennial, bro just wants to know why it's shaped like that. Why are you being intentionally obtuse
sincerely, please shut it.
yes i am gen z and i have never seen a cd shaped like fucking mozart
wdf am i finna do
You be ok. Bitches need to bitch. Let them tire themselves out, they'll eventually poop and fall asleep
I'm guessing it's a promotional something or other or a piece of art by someone.
It could still be a data disk, but for pretty unique and large disk trays. Also, the data written to the parts at the 'disk's' extremities could not be read by a traditional disc laser
Play it
most people recognize a CD, I've been aware of them since I was like 3, I'm 16 now and I've never seen a CD shaped like that before. I knew it was a CD but like what the heck
🤣
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Novelty CDs are a fun throwback! I always thought they added a cool twist to my collection.
The animal House DVD that we had was shaped very funny. Like a pyramid with squiggly sides it's very odd but cool at the time. It was the first and only DVD I ever saw shaped differently than the typical circle until just now even though this is the CD same concept.
A 90s novelty item! 😊
Idk but can you put it in a wii?
Maybe, they played mini discs for the GC
Don't put it in a newer player without a CD tray.
Oh man I thought there was chocolate in there!
If you’re wondering why it works, CDs are read from the center out, so the shape doesn’t matter. For comparison, vinyl records play from the outside in.
C.D aka Compact Disk
Im going to guess a Mozart CD.
I have one of these shaped CDs! Mine is of Brian from the Backstreet Boys. I think there was one music track and the rest was a few random interviews, lol
It's a cd. Place it in a cd player to hear the music on it.
Additionally, I would advise using a cd player that has a spindle where you click the CD into place.
CD-ROM
I remember Coca Cola used to include mini cds in 12 packs of soda
It looks like a Nirvana album.
How did I grow up in the 90’s-00’s and not see a shaped CD?!
https://www.discogs.com/release/15703750-Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Klavierkonzert-Nr-21
Its a CD. It plays music when you put it in a CD player.
I’m also curious
A CD that will break your CD player
Bethoven
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Where Eddie VanHalen pulled the name for his son. All great artists!
Falco better be on there