The main reason then to do it was that compact disc wasn't and remains less good as a on the go personal format with discs easy to mark and awkward to carry about, changing as needed.
I tended back then to use Maxell XLII type two chrome position tapes that tended to be reliable although I had experimented using type four metal oxide ones and with the machine I had in the 1990's in particular it just was the case it didn't work out so well even though in theory it ought to had been better.
When MiniDisc arrived here many of those tapes just went tossed aside which in hindsight was a bad move given the relative scarcity and high prices of such tapes that are no longer made.
I remade this small bunch on some very lightly used metal tapes of the sort I did have back then as a homage to that era but did need to rejig the track lists as for one album the original A side was noticeably longer that the other to the point no suitable tape length existed and with another it made more sense to put the live tracks on one side and add its one studio recording at the end of the album that preceded it
Today while I could listen to Mp3's or lossless files, I still prefer to physically handle the tape and there is less risk of the effects of corruption of the memory card when use use a physical media such as tape and reply by my trusty Panasonic walkman.
Surprisingly the in some ways basic Yamaha budget cassette deck does a much better job of making better recordings on these tapes than the on paper better deck I had then, being quite lifelike.
I don't use dolby find it it hit and miss when it comes to replay tapes between machines and some of issues around setting automatically tape tuning reliably as it tends to get that wrong making duller recordings.
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