[slinkelist] Sony CDP-CX450

[David Morgenlender]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:50:31 -0400, you wrote:

>I am a newcomer to this list, and have an easy question. I just received=
 my
>Sony CDP-CX450 megachanger. I programmed about twenty CD's. As far as I =
can
>tell, you can only program the Title and Artist, NOT the names of the
>individual tracks. This is something of a disappointment to me. Although=
 it
>would be a hassle inputting all the titles, I would really like to have =
this
>information. Another problem I noted is that there is no obvious means =
of
>saving the information. If I am correct on this point, one could input
>potentially 400 Titles and match them with the Artists, and then risk =
losing
>everything. Would the Slink-e enable me to input the track names, so =
that I
>could view them both on the cd player itself, and on the remote? Could I
>retrieve this information from the CDDB? My computer is about twelve =
feet
>from the cd player. How does it get attached.
>
>And, here's a slightly off topic question: Where is CD-Text information
>stored? Specifically, if I were to burn my own cd, let's say a copy of a=
 cd
>that doesn't have CD-Text, could I add it? How would I go about doing =
this?

It's getting late & I'm very tired, so I'll keep this brief!  I recently
purchased a CX450, to go along with my CX57 player (50+1 CDs).  I then =
learned
about the Slink-e & purchased one;  I'm using it along with the free CDJ
software.  I love it!  CDJ calculates a CDDB ID from the CDs loaded into =
both my
CD players, quite accurately in my case;  it then looks up the CDs in the=
 CDDB
database.  At this point it has album title, artist & track info stored =
in its
database.  Some of this data can then be downloaded (uploaded?) to the CD
players!  Currently, the data includes album title only;  this is limited=
 to 13
characters, not the 20 the CX450 can handle;  artist info is not loaded.

However, CDJ shows all the data.  So when controlling the players via =
CDJ, I
have all this info available for sorting, selecting (by many criteria, =
for both
albums & song title), etc.

My computer is probably about 10' from the CD player.  However, the way I=
 run
the cable under the floor, it is much longer than 10'; it's probably =
closer to
25'.  This is a serial connection.  It was suggested here than I use a =
CAT5
cable, with connectors on each end to convert from RJ45 to DB9;  this is =
what I
did.  It's worked flawlessly, once I corrected a minor error building the
connectors ... you have to assign wires to pins yourself.  I forget the =
rules
for this, but I can dig them up.

I haven't used CD-Text, so I can't help you there.

I'm going to sleep now <g>!

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Dave Morgenlender
e-mail: dmorgen@alum.mit.edu
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