[slinkelist] newbie notes
shawn@sboyle.com
shawn@sboyle.com
22 Aug 2000 04:58:04 -0700
Here are those links:
EXE:
http://www.sboyle.com/automation/Track_File.exe
Source:
http://www.sboyle.com/automation/track2file.zip
-Shawn
On Mon, 21 August 2000, shawn@sboyle.com wrote:
>
> You can do number six right now. You need to use the slink-e activeX control. You can get info for the playing track, as well as info for any track in the playlist.
>
> I have a program that I wrote to generate a text file of the current song's info. I use it with HomeVision to display track info on all of the TV's. I don't have it here at work but I'd be happy to post a link to it when I get home. If you know VB you can also take a look at the source code to see how it works. I think CDJ also comes with a sample VB app.
>
> For number two -- if you set the default action to "Add as next and play" [in the options window] then double clicking on a track produces the same result as in previous versions.
>
> -Shawn
>
> On Mon, 21 August 2000, Mike Macgirvin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I just recently got cdj and slinke running last week and overall I'm
> > very pleased with the combo - especially given the pathetic user
> > interface of the Sony CX450.
> >
> > I've also looked at recent mailing list archives, so I know that this is
> > a product in active development and things are changing. As a first time
> > user, I wanted to point out a few areas that could benefit from just a
> > bit of enhancement.
> >
> > 1. Saving window layouts. Every time I start it up I've got to drag the
> > artist/title columns wide enough to read.
> >
> > 2. Ability to play directly without adding to a playlist. I notice that
> > this feature apparently once existed but not in the recent code.
> >
> > 3. The help files say you can import mp3's by dragging them into the
> > library. I did this with 150 selected files and got back 150 error
> > messages (separated by a few seconds each) telling me I needed to drop
> > them into an album, not a CD. No way to stop/cancel. Now that I know I
> > won't do it that way again, but changing the help text (create an album
> > first, then drag onto the album) could save some grief and a lot of
> > time. Or allow a cancel-all at the point the error first comes up. Or
> > would it be too difficult for the software to just create an album and
> > drop them in? --- I also tried to drag a file system folder containing
> > MP3's and wasn't allowed (folder file type unsupported). Seems the
> > folder could make an easy named album _if_ auto-create happened.
> >
> > 4. A bit concerned about database reliability. Once when I restarted,
> > there were empty slots where they had previously been found and
> > identified. Scanning again found them and didn't have to go out to CDDB
> > to name them. But the concern is because I had about thirty or so CD's
> > which weren't in CDDB and I've now typed them all in by hand and fixed
> > some CDDB entries that were wrong. I don't wish to do it again. Options
> > could be to backup the DB (which I did manually), and/or allow
> > import/export to text files.
> >
> > 5. As noted by others the upload of text to the CX-450 seems to be
> > missing stuff. This may be a player limitation. Why on earth they would
> > limit a 400-CD player to 200 artist names is beyond me; unless they just
> > reused firmware from the CX-200. Half my collection is "various artists"
> > so I think I've got about 1000 total. But the song names seem to be
> > missing - all I get is album name on the player.
> >
> > 6. Long term enhancement - it would be nice to see "What's Playing"
> > queryable from a remote computer or device. I'm piping music all over
> > the house. If it were just dumped to a text file I could work with it.
> > Added points for "What's Next" in the cases where that's known, but I
> > understand how hard that one could be.
> >
> > None of these are critical issues except perhaps the DB reliability, and
> > I can work around or live with all of them. This is mostly just a note
> > so that the developers can tabulate what irks the most people the most
> > and prioritize accordingly.
> >
> > I'm quite happy with this product overall and would like to praise the
> > developers for such a painless installation. Getting strange hardware
> > and software to communicate is usually quite a daunting task and the
> > installation went very smoothly and everything worked pretty much as
> > expected the first time.
> >
> >
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