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If it has the NetMD feature you can do so in a web browser now: https://github.com/cybercase/webminidisc
I'm reading you can copy the files off them easily now, if you have a NetMD model: https://github.com/asivery/webminidisc
Love mine! Recently resurrected my Sony player by adding Bluetooth functionality following this guide. I now use it with my AirPods!
https://github.com/formatc1702/bluetooth-minidisc
I repaired about two dozen units in the past three years and twenty years past their service life the most common failure mode seems to be a failing photodiode array which corrects for the tracking of the optical head. This is unfortunately beyond fixing by a hobbyist, so the minidisc format revival is effectively limited by the supply of working optical heads.
Btw my first thought (and the general consensus of the md community) was that the units fail due to dying laser diodes. I designed and built a md laser power meter (https://github.com/fijam/md-lpm) that runs off a coin cell and fits in a md disc case and every failed unit I tested had a working laser diode.