If you were free to invent a completely new form of physical media for music roughly in the same space as casettes/vinyls/cds, what would you invent?
Casettes save state but you to rewind. Vinyl have a great album art, but are fragile. CDs and Casettes are small and allow saving and making mix tapes at home. Can we mix and match? How?
Why not MiniDisc?
The machines are quite expensive, especially the NetMD models with USB. And for the best choices you need to order from Japan.