[slinkelist] Missing Discs

[Dale Andren]

Colby,

The blank old memo's feature would be really cool.

Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: Colby Boles <cboles@nirvis.com>
To: <mkropp@cathouse.mv.com>; Brian L Hunt <bhunt01@ibm.net>;
<slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Missing Discs


> What player are you uploading to? As long as it's not the CX270 or 90ES,
it
> should be very reliable. We can add an option to blank old memos if there
> is interest.
>
> Colby
>
> At 11:04 AM 10/26/99 -0400, Mike Kropp wrote:
> >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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