[slinkelist] CDJ questions/problems, plus CDSaver/PartyGUI

[Colby Boles]

ok, here goes...


> It's probably not a good idea to mention these problems/questions all at
> once, but if I don't, they won't get posted.
>
> Is there a Y2K bug when sorting by date added in the library?  It
> looks like
> 2000 dates are being sorted as earlier than 1999 dates.
>

this is not a Y2K bug. it is sorting based on the text you see. the list
view knows nothing about dates per se. a quick fix would be for me to show
the dates as YY/MM/DD, but i'm not sure if people would like that.


> I would like to be able to search by date added, to play all recently
> acquired CDs, for example.
>
> Buts most importantly:  why is the date added field not always filled in
> when a new CD is added?

this has been fixed, but not released

>
> It seems that whenever CDJ encounters a CDDB title containing a slash, it
> treats one side of the slash as the artist and the other as the
> title.  This
> should be easy to fix?

this is how CDDB V1 works. When CDJ encounters more than one slash, it tries
to be intelligent and picks the first one surrounded by spaces (that way
artists like AC/DC don't get broken up)

>
> When searching albums for number of times played, CDJ actually returns
> answers based on track, not album properties.  So if the album option is
> selected, and one searches for nt<1, the result is a list of all
> albums that
> have a track that has not been played.  Perhaps this is
> intentional, but if
> so, it should be added to the documentation.

this is indeed how it works. i need to make exceptions for certain fields
that don't make sense to do this way. nt is one of them.

>
> Incidentally, in the help file, where comparisons are explained, "greater
> than" and "less than" have been reversed.
>

fixed, but not released.

> Is there any way to save a *search* (parameterised playlists)?
> For example,
> I often start up CDJ, search for "kw = classical & nt<1", then
> press random.
> This gives me all the classical tracks that I have not listened
> to.  But it
> changes from session to session, so I have to type the search in
> every time.
> Not too big a hassle, but it would be good if we could save "intensional"
> playlists as well as "extensional" ones, if that means anything
> to anybody.

i agree. we want to work on maybe having a form of playlist file which just
contains search information and maybe a random play command. basically it
would be a form of a script really.

>
> Is there a button that takes you to the library entry for the
> selection now
> playing?  If there is, I can't find it.  It would be very handy!

the new version I'll be releasing does this.

>
> One BIG hassle is the mess that is made it I happen to be editing
> a library
> field when the track or disc changes:  the line I was editing is put into
> the new track's entry!

i'm working on a way to prevent this, but it won't make it into the next
release.

>
> I've been trying to search for empty fields (for example, to find library
> entries that lack a keyword classification so that I can give them one).
> But when I search for, say "kw == """, I get everything.  Am I missing
> something very simple?
>

no. somethings screwed up here. i'm trying to figure it out. ironically, if
you ask

!(kw=="")

you will get all of the discs which do have keywords....


> Could provision for rest-of-the-world dating systems (e.g., DD/MM/YY) be
> made an option?
>

I think the code is set currently to use your Windows locale settings. Do
you have your machine set to do this?

> A trivial matter is that there is not popup help for the "option" and "tip
> of the day" icons.  Big deal.

fixed it. thanks.
>
> I would also like to be able to search by "has image", so that I
> can create
> random playlists of only CDs that have images.  Is this possible?

not at the moment, but i'll try to add it at some point
>
> I never had any "disc look up" problems when I had only one
> player, but now
> with two CDJ just seems to skip a lookup every now and then.
> E.g., if I ask
> CDJ to look up every disc between 200 and 300 (on either player), about 10
> CDs will not be looked up.

do you have the players in master-slave mode? this can cause problems.

>
> Now for the problems with two players.  One of the main reasons
> why I got a
> second player is that I wanted to eliminate the gap between CDs,
> and looked
> forward to using CDJ's mix/overlap feature.  But I soon found out that on
> normal settings, two linked CX350s will not overlap.  As soon as
> one starts
> playing, the other stops.  But then I discovered the "x-fade"
> feature.  The
> problem is that it is not customisable using the CDJ dialogue.

i'm not follwoing what you mean here. it seems pretty customizable to me...

Colby