Re: Problems with SONY CDP-CX255 and CDJ in General

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RMB clicked on my CD player in that window, CDJ crashed. (I have since looked in the BBS to find this

problem noted several times, and added my 2 cents into the BBS). This was repeatable.
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I have fixed this, but haven't released it yet. It only happens with an empty library. My recommendation: stop doing it for now and build a library instead.

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After getting CDJ back running

(after a reboot)
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Use WinNT and you won't be rebooting when programs crash....

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, Executed a Search for all discs and queue for later internet

lookup, this finished (~175 discs).
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I would save my work at this point, or turn on the library autosave feature.

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Day #2. It's time to control something else. Tried a couple times to find my Sony Amp (TA-AV460). Did not

find that exact piece, but did find ampir.cda under Sony. I could not find any info on file naming conventions, but

"ir" looked promising. (Perhaps a file naming convention would be a good addition to the help system).

Ok, I have now selected my amp. I start up the CD player with CDJ, hit the volume up button, nothing. The

volume down and mute buttons were equally as disappointing. After hunting around I did get the Slinke data

stream viewer / immediate command execution window up. I had called my amp "amp", so I typed amp:power,

and it shut off. Repeated and it came back on. I certianly hope there is a better way to control things than this.

I found that you could expand the device list, and see the commands for the devices you have loaded.

However, this proved to be quite unsatisfying since as far as I can tell the list won't actuall DO anything. I

double-clicked on lots of commands and nothing happened.
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It's just a viewer. Certain commands require parameters so double clicking wouldn't be feasible anyway. Please read CDJ | Using Event Maps and CDJ | Automation Interface in the help to understand how the system works. It is very flexible once you understand it. Basically you need to take the extra step of *connecting* the device commands to the toolbar buttons.

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Also, while the device was loaded, everytime I turned on the CD player, it went to Disc 64 and would not play any other disc until I at least started playing track 1 on disc 64. I went back and removed the amp device I added and this problem went away. An ok fix
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are you really sure this is related? I have trouble imagining how the one could effect the other. Is the player in program / 1-disc mode?

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On to playing CD's. I pull up a CD that the internet lookup didn't find. Not surprizing since I recorded it myself

from 45's. The disc memo I had already input to the CD Player months ago was "Guy's 45's 1". So I start this

CD playing, and pull up the rating tab of the music info window and notice a "Disc Memo" field. I guess that this

is tied to the disc memo in the CDP. I find under the Library tab, a transfer text function. The disc is in slot 146,

and that disc is playing, so I select to "Download selected disc memo from player to CDJ", and whala, "Guy's

45's 1" showed up.
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By default you transfer disc title text into the player unless you have something in the disc memo field.

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Now the power get's shut off to my PC. I get it powered back up, start up CDJ, and the entire library is
gone. I had to go back and redo all the learn discs and get the internet info again.
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One word: Autosave.

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I go back to disc 146, and the memo is blank as expected since the database had been wiped clean. I

attempted the same text transfer and I got a failure. I tried several times but still fail.
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