Sturdy Minidisc player for backing tracks?

[gimmeagig]

Hi,
Our band just lost its keyboardplayer and since I live in northern Idaho I'm having a tough time finding another one.So we are thinking about going with tracks.I have played with bands who used tracks and while I prefer a real player, tracks is better than nothing.I'm hoping someone here can recommend a sturdy,kind of roadworthy minidisk player.I've checked e-bay and there seem to be several models available.Only Sonys are listed and nothing rackmountable that I've seen.Can you guys recommend a model?
Thanks

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

iPod?

 

[TL5]

If you're looking for a rackmounted MD player; Sony, Tascam, Denon, HHB and a few others made professional decks.

We used Sony decks in one studio I used to do radio production in regularly. The station I worked for in Atlanta had 3 studios. One had Tascam single rack space units, I don't remember the model#'s.
In the main broadcast studio (on-air) the decks were Denon. They were taller, half rack space devices. They had 4, ganged together like cart machines.

They looked similar to these, but may have been a different model:

 

[Joelc73]

We use a Sony in my band. I'll have to check on the model number but it is rackmountable and has been ultra reliable on gigs.

We went through keyboard players for years until we finally decided to give up and just do everything using midi and play the parts back using a minidisk player.

We tried using a portable one in the beginning but it would often "skip" if there was too much vibration on stage. The rackmount MD has worked flawlessly.

 

[musicman5string]

I play in a band that uses backing tracks for keys, primarily because I'm also the keyboard player as well as the bass player. I found using a rackmount CD with anti'skip works best, becasue I run one output of the CD player to the house and one output as the click to my drummers ear. How do you get a click to your drummer with a minidisk?

 

[Joelc73]

I play in a band that uses backing tracks for keys, primarily because I'm also the keyboard player as well as the bass player. I found using a rackmount CD with anti'skip works best, becasue I run one output of the CD player to the house and one output as the click to my drummers ear. How do you get a click to your drummer with a minidisk?

Probably the same way. I run one output (music only) to a DI which goes to the board via xlr. The 1/4" out of the DI goes back to the drummer's monitor. The second output (which is just click) goes straight to the second input of the drummer's monitor.

 

[mthoople]

IIRC, the rackmount Sony machines are:

MDS-E58
MDS-E10
MDS-E11
MDS-E12

Tascam had a two-space rack mount unit, but I don't remember the model.