[slinkelist] Missing Discs

Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:47:39 -0500

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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Kropp <mkropp@cathouse.mv.com>
To: Marc Parker <parkdog@ix.netcom.com>; Colby Boles <cboles@nirvis.com>;
<slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:28 PM
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Missing Discs


> Mostly they go to the car.  My wife sometimes takes a few to listen to at
> work.  Sometimes the kids take them to their rooms to listen on their CD
> players.  Tapes and MiniDiscs don't work as neither car has one of those.
> Besides, when I'm leaving, I want what I want at that moment, not what may
> already be on another format, nor can I wait to create that format.
>
> In an ideal world I would have multiple copies of popular discs.  But then
I
> wouldn't solve the major storage problem I had either.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Parker [mailto:parkdog@ix.netcom.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:38 PM
> > To: mkropp@cathouse.mv.com; Colby Boles; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Missing Discs
> >
> >
> > Where do you take them? The reason I ask, is I have made it LAW
> > that no one
> > removes ANY thing from my changers once they are loaded. If
> > someone wants to
> > play something on another CD plyaer, Tape deck or Mini Disc, I make them
a
> > copy of what they want. May sound a bit rigid, but avoids the
> > wear and tear
> > as well as the confusion. THe up side is I can give them exactly what
they
> > want. I find playlists a most valuable aspect of CDJ.
> >
> > Are you taking them out of the house? (Car?).
> >
> > Just curious.
> >
> > Parker
> >
> > > From: "Mike Kropp" <mkropp@cathouse.mv.com>
> > > Reply-To: <mkropp@cathouse.mv.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:15:08 -0400
> > > To: "Colby Boles" <cboles@nirvis.com>, <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
> > > Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Missing Discs
> > >
> > > CDP-CX300.  It usually takes a couple tries -- especially if it is a
new
> > > disc.  Seems to want to download it's own version of the memo
> > rather than
> > > what I type.
> > >
> > > Blanking memos is of interest but only if group info can dealt with
too.
> > > That's currently disabled and of no use.
> > >
> > > I'm really most interested in maintaining disc location info.
> > It makes it
> > > easier to find discs -- especially discs you take frequently.
> > You sort of
> > > get used to where they are.
> > >
> > > CDJ is such a cool app.  It sort of needs the fit-and-finish
> > step to make it
> > > really stand out.
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Colby Boles [mailto:cboles@nirvis.com]
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 4:26 PM
> > >> To: mkropp@cathouse.mv.com; Brian L Hunt; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > >> 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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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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