Audio Question

Okay, here's a tech-type question that someone here may be able to answer for me. It concerns the minidisc format, about which I know very little other than that Sony has made it less than simple to transfer recordings off a minidisc and onto another format. A friend has several dozen songs on minidisc which he would like to convert to MP3 format, playable on a PC. Alas, his minidisc player doesn't even have an audio out jack. Music can go in but it can't come out. Is there something cheap he can purchase that will export and convert the recordings without going through an analog capture?