Re: Information concerning CDJ operation

>Iam still confused about how CDJ operates, or better yet, if my requirements
>can be implemented using CDJ. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>I record my own Cds from records, tapes and other Cds. I guess this is
>the ultimate greatest hits for an individual. The Cds have different artists.
>The songs and artists are then entered into an access database for my control
>of the collection for duplicates and for manual lookups.
>
>Does CDJ support, on the same CD multiple artists?

Yes.
>
>Does CDJ support an Import function to update the library from an internal
>database? (such as my Access)

No. I will eventually be switching the CDJ database over to an Access format which would make such importing trivial, but for now it is in a CDDB compliant flat text file format.
>
>If I switch Cds,homemade type, can CDJ recognize the new CD? The question
>here is how does CDJ recognize a different CD in a slot. I guess it my
>job to find out if my CDs support any kind of unique identification.
>
It certainly won't know the name of the CD via CDDB - you will have to tell it, but it will be able to uniquely identify and track the position of the CD since this is done on the basis of the TOC timecode data.

>Once my library is build, can I produce lists by song and artist? It seems
>like I can, I quess I don't understand it well enough right now to find
>it.

yes.

>
>Anybody else doing similiar things with CDr type of equipment? Would be
>interested in hearing from you.

I make large numbers of compilation and straight copy CDRs. I've switched over to digital with my players and PC sound cards and I'm in the process of modifying CDJ to generate MP3 files automatically as well as extract digital audio for CDR creation.