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Posted By: John F. Jones <jjones@n...>
Date: Thursday, 30 July 1998, at 11:11 p.m.

Hi Colby, So here's my current situation... I'm tired of the 200 CD's in my player and decided to replace the first 50. I tried clicking on the Library icon for "Locate discs that are not currently in the library" and a window opens for about 5 seconds and then goes away with no apparent effect - if it has located something, it's not telling me. I can't just queue up the new disks and tell it to do a lookup on the queued disks - there is no way to queue up by disk slot#. And I can't select a disk and do that either. So I click on the "Verify all of the disks in the players (tedious {you're right})" and it goes out and identifies all the new CD's (and also overlays any title corrections I have made since the last CDDB download). But now the Library shows all the CD's in my library, making no distinction between those that are loaded and those that are not. (On the occasions when Slinke fails to find my CD player, it 'grays out' the titles, but here there is no such distinction.) If I select a title that has been removed, it plays the corresponding disk that is currently in that slot.

So, am I missing something? If not, then a couple of possibilities suggest themselves.

1. How about if the disk's current slot number is shown in the library along with the title (& not shown if it is not currently mounted) - If I could sort by slot number, then I could 'queue' up the disk slots I had refilled and tell CDJ to verify/lookup just those disks. When the looked up CD does not match what tha library says is in that slot, it updates the slot numbers and grays out the old title. (And it doesn't overlay the titles that I have manually corrected unless I have set an option for it to do so).

2. How about a function that just compares the CD's in the player against the Library database and just updates the slot and 'grayout' features, flagging any disks that it doesn't recognize so you can update those from the online CDDB.

I would be pleased if CDJ never did anything more than it does today; but it has so much potential to be a truely fantastic tool. I have been programming user software applications for 25 years and I know it seems like the consumer is never happy - always wants more or different. But it's only because we care :)

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