[slinkelist] CDJ database updates, especially deletions

[Colby Boles]

highlight the album(s) and hit the delete key. The will dissapear, and be 
removed on save / exit.

Colby


At 10:59 AM 10/18/99 -0700, Ron Tugender wrote:

>CDJ does something interesting when it notices that a cataloged CD is no 
>longer found at its expected location.  It marks the player/disk data in 
>the CD s database entry as missing (-1 in the player entry, ? in the 
>viewable display, dimmed line in the library display).  When the CD is 
>reinserted into a player, CDJ is smart enough to update the CD s location 
>information should the CD appear in a different location from 
>previous.  It does this without another CDDB lookup so it preserves any 
>database information that might have been added since the original lookup. 
>This is all exactly right IMHO.
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>The glitch is where a CD is permanently removed from the collection.  Is 
>there a way to do this?  If not, couldn t CDJ have a command to remove a 
>disk s database entries (including tracks) when that CD was no longer to 
>be included in the database?  I could envision it as another entry in the 
>disk s right-click menu or alternately as an option in the library menu.
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>Cheers,
>
>Ron
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>

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