[slinkelist] any success with the new Sony 400 CD players?

[Rick Engle]

Thats the same CD unit I have (CX-450).   I'm curious if slink-e could be
configured to support a remote keyboard.  The new units will allow a
standard keyboard to be plugged into the front to enter title info and it
would be nice if that could be  done remotely by a PC networked to the PC
thats plugged into the slinke.
  Thanks,
    Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: David Morgenlender [mailto:dmorgen@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:17 PM
To: -kevin-
Cc: slinkelist@nirvis.com; Rick Engle
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] any success with the new Sony 400 CD players?


On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:53:57 -0700, you wrote:

>I've got the CDP-CX400 and it works like a charm.  Not a single
>problem.  Worked perfectly the first time.  I've only got about 75
>discs in there, so I'm not dead sure about those discs beyond 300
>mark.  Perhaps I will give it a go...

I installed my Slink-e yesterday, then connecting my CDP-CX450 & CDP-CX57
(50+1).  The funny (& expensive) thing is the reason I got the CX450 over
the
CX400 was for the fancy remote ... which now won't be used frequently
(probably
only when the PC is unavailable) given the Slink-e, which I didn't know
about
then!

I've got 255 CDs loaded (slots 2-256) & so far they seem to work ok.


A couple of questions about using CDJ with these new 400 CD players ...
these
new models support a list of artists, as well as the old groups;  each CD
can be
assigned an artist & a group.  Do you know of any way to use CDJ to assign &
upload artists, especially, but also groups?


Also, I'm going to play around with these CDJ issues, which I haven't gotten
a
chance to do yet ... but in case you or anybody else knows the answers ...

Some CDs couldn't be identified.  Some had incorrect artists.  Some had
inconsistent use of artist, e.g. "Beatles" vs. "The Beatles", which will
probably screw up artist sorts, etc.  Presumably, CDJ is simply taking what
CDDB
gives it.  The question is how to correct the problem ... is there any way
to
manually correct these items, especially so future CDDB updates don't undo
the
changes?  (Is there any way to notify CDDB of the problems, so the database
will
be corrected?)

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Dave Morgenlender
e-mail: dmorgen@alum.mit.edu
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