MiniDisc

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with MiniDisc, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Sony gimped MiniDisc features, making the user experience confusing and awful2022-09-14
Disc swapping is cumbersome for large music libraries; disc jumps on portable use2022-07-20
Arbitrary restrictions on usage and poor quality management software were infuriating2021-06-13
Copying a CD to MiniDisc took hours because the conversion software was very slow2021-06-12
Entering artist and song titles means selecting one letter at a time with cursor buttons2016-10-25
Spinning a dial to pick letters for track titles took hours2012-08-23