[slinkelist] New CDJ Beta

[Colby Boles]

I fixed the first problem. It has to do with MP3 which contain ID3 release 
date information which is incorrectly formatted. These become invalid dates 
in CDJ which ADO refuses when writing the .mdb file. It's fixed now - I'll 
release something soon.

As for the drag and drop order problem, things get very interesting. 
Basically explorer is screwing things up. If you do multiple selection, 
your order is basically maintained except the the item you click on to 
begin the drag becomes the first item, and the first item goes to the 
position of the item you clicked. In your case, I see that you dragged by 
grabbing the bottom-most item.

So there is no good solution for this except maybe to sort what comes in by 
filename.

Colby


At 09:55 AM 9/15/99 -0500, Greg Young wrote:
>I installed and tested the new Beta and started adding MP3 albums.  I 
>added 5 albums, then after adding Beck's "Mutations" I received the 
>following error sequence when saving the library:
>1. An error occurred while attempting to use MS ADO 2.1 Please make sure 
>you have this component installed before using the database features of CDJ.
>2. Error: Code=8002000a Code meaning = Out of present range.  Source = 
>Provider Description = Out of present range
>3. Error writing library
>
>As soon as I delete "Mutations" the error disappears.  The file names for 
>the MP3 files are sequential numbers (01.mp3, 02.mp3, etc.) and there are 
>no odd characters in the ID3 tags except one apostrophe, which does not 
>appear to cause errors when used elsewhere.
>
>Also, drag and drop from Windows Explorer seems to read the files in an 
>odd order: neither by date or file name.  I have my MP3 albums set up in 
>separate subdirectories, where each directory's files follow the 
>sequential listing I noted above, in order to keep the track sequence 
>straight and avoid Joliet filename errors when I back up the files to 
>CD-R.   When CDJ sets up the album listing, the track order has 
>consistently been the last file first and the first file last, but all 
>others in sequence in between.   Thus, for a 5 track album, the CDJ track 
>order after drag and drop is:
>05
>02
>03
>04
>01
>
>Of course, I can fix this by dragging the files in the track listing pane, 
>but it would be better if it just picked up the file order as it was 
>dragged in from Explorer.  Is this an error in the way MS handles the drag 
>and drop?
>
>Any ideas?
>
>BTW - The ID3 tag reading is great!
>
>Regards,
>Greg
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Colby Boles [SMTP:cboles@nirvis.com]
>Sent:   Friday, September 10, 1999 9:05 PM
>To:     slinkelist@nirvis.com
>Subject:        [slinkelist] New CDJ Beta
>
>I'm leaving for the weekend, but I've put a new beta version on the site.
>Works good for me, but try it at your own risk. I didn't list it on the
>download page - follow th elink below to get it. It should fix / improve a
>number of things related to mp3s:
>
>* reads ID3 data
>* gets playing time w/o choking or interrupting playback
>* allows drag and drop of mp3s between album, track, and playlist view.
>* you can also re-arrange mp3s within and album via drag and drop or drop
>
>let me know how it works.
>
>Colby
>
>http://128.218.46.77/download/programs/slinke091099.exe
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