[slinkelist] CDDB Lookup problems

[Patrick Kehoe]

George,

Thank you very much for clearing this up.

Colby and/or David, is this on your "to do list" or do I need to find another
work around?  The reason that I'm concerned is that I've only loaded 1/3 of my
CDs in to changers (450 discs so far) and am concerned about buying more
changers and having more of these problems.

In a previous message, there was mention of using Access to add a Ninth digit to
the CDJ id for one of discs in the database as a work around.  There was also
discussion that this wouldn't work.  Opinions?

Patrick

George Tang wrote:

> Yes, CDJ will only look at the number of tracks and the total time on the
> disc.  So there is a possibility of more than one disc to have the same
> information.  CDDB, however, also looks at the length of each track.  Colby
> and David at Nirvis are aware of this limitation.  But I don't know when
> they will fix this.  So far only a handful of disk are having problem.  In
> your case, you'll probably only encounter this once.
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Kehoe [mailto:pkehoe@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 9:09 AM
> To: gtang@gtcons.com; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: Re: [slinkelist] CDDB Lookup problems
>
> George,
>
> Thanks for the response.  I did find a similar message on the BBS, but the
> confusing part for me is that CDJ and CDDB will return the correct CD
> artist/tracks when only one of the two dics are in the player.  If both
> discs
> are the player, CDJ gets confused.
>
> What I don't understand is why can CDJ using CDDB correctly determine an
> exact
> match for each CD, yet CDJ thinks they are the same?  Is CDJ's unique id not
> including the same information the CDDB is using?
>
> I'm really reluctant to just burn a copy.  From my point of view, if I
> wanted to
> go through all of that headache, I might as well just RIP my collection to
> MP3.
> I choose CDJ because it would be "simpler".
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick
>
> "Tang, George" wrote:
>
> > This issue has been addressed before.  Please check the BBS on the Nirvis
> > web site for solutions.  The easiest and quickest solution is to just burn
> a
> > copy of one of the two disks.  The copy is slightly different enough for
> CDJ
> > to recognize it as a different disk.
> >
> > George
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > Behalf Of Patrick Kehoe
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:42 PM
> > To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > Subject: [slinkelist] CDDB Lookup problems
> >
> > Strange problem with CDDB look-ups.
> >
> > I have two CDs:
> > 1) Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
> > 2) Cowboy Junkies - Lay it on down
> >
> > Both return the correct disk information when looked up indvidually in
> > CDJ.
> >
> > However when they are both in my two changers (CX250 and CX350) the
> > first disk looked up is correct, but the second takes the identity of
> > the first, and then CDJ complains that it can't have two of the same
> > disks.
> >
> > I think I've tried every combination of deleting the disks and
> > re-searching for them to no avail.  I'm at a loss.
> >
> > Could CDJ be using the same ID for each disk, yet CDDB returns the
> > correct Artist/title information?
> >
> > How do I address this problem?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Patrick
> >
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