[slinkelist] Missing Discs

[Mike Kropp]

Main reason I care is sometimes I use the CD players without CDJ (gasp!).
Besides, CDJ does not update the slot information in the CD player when it
refinds the disc.  It doesn't download the disc memo (which it does somewhat
unreliably anyway) and it doesn't download the group.  It also doesn't erase
the same information from the empty slot.  Disc memo is important as the
computer controlling this is in another room.  Call me anal but I like this
stuff to be in synch.

--Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian L Hunt [mailto:bhunt01@ibm.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 10:30 AM
> To: mkropp@cathouse.mv.com; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Missing Discs
>
>
> Just to ask the obvious, why do you care which slots they were in? That's
> the beauty of CDJ. You can get it to search all the slots that
> are empty as
> far as it is concerned. So put the CDs in any empty slot and tell it to
> search. Yes it does get a bit out of sync with a lot of swapping.
> So once in
> a while tell it to search every slot and take the wife out to dinner while
> it does it.
>
> Brian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > Behalf Of Mike Kropp
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 5:45 AM
> > To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > Subject: [slinkelist] Missing Discs
> >
> >
> > We regularly remove and replace discs from our two changers.
> Because CDJ
> > doesn't automatically reupload the memo text, and group
> information to the
> > player, we put them back in the slots they came out of.  The
> > trouble is that
> > CDJ doesn't make it easy to do that.  Once it discovers that a disc is
> > missing, it sets the player and disc fields of the database to
> > -1.  It would
> > be nice if it retained that information and indicated the missing
> > disc some
> > other way ("Location Valid" field maybe?).  I would have
> > suggested negative
> > player and disc numbers but the player is 0-based.
> >
> > Anyway, a real nice feature would be to get a list of missing
> > discs and what
> > slots they're supposed to be in.  I was going to do a query
> within Access
> > for this but couldn't figure a good way to do that.
> >
> > Any other ideas how to solve this?
> >
> >
> >
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