[slinkelist] CDJ database updates, especially deletions

[Tang, George]

Colby, most of us have figured this out.  But it is not intuitive.  You
might want to add this to a menu item.

George

-----Original Message-----
From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
Behalf Of Colby Boles
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 11:22 AM
To: tugender@pacbell.net; Slinke-List
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] CDJ database updates, especially deletions


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.
>
>
>
>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.
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ron
>
>

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