 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
85.211.203.1
In Reply to: RE: Got my functionality back to ADD/REMOVE Disks/folders through... posted by theob on February 07, 2012 at 03:58:48
. . . the CMP library (not the files themselves but mapping to the files) is loaded into memory
As we all know, when cMP is launched, it scans the folders listed in the (wait for this . . . ) "Folders" window in the Settings UI to look for cuesheets. Double-clicking the title of the displayed cuesheets launches cPlay.
The paths and names of the "watched" folders are stored in the .ini file in cMP's folder in "Program Files" but the content is not. The captured data reside in memory until the user either reboots or hits the "Refresh" button, at which time the folders are rescanned.
If you have a large collection of albums with all of them "reported" (as it were) to cMP, scanning can take a considerable time; a slowish machine scanning a large library over a LAN can take several minutes.
As no-one is ever going to tag every cuesheet perfectly and as cMP was never designed to cope with large libraries, it can be very hard to find a given album and the whole process is in any case impossibly slow.
I get round that by copying the cuesheet for an album to be played to a folder on the server that is "watched" by cMP then hitting the Refresh button in cMP. I've configured the server using shortcuts and the "Send To" menu to make this quick and easy - it's nothing like as cumbersome as it may sound.
The result is that cMP typically never has to "remember" more than a couple of cuesheets. As my 6,500-odd cuesheets come to over twenty MB of text, there is obviously a significant reduction in memory demand as well as in time wasted scanning thousands of cuesheets that will definitley not (for obvious reasons) be played this session.
I don't see off-hand how you can avoid superfluous cuesheets hogging memory where a system is controlled locally but Explorer is no longer available unless, of course, you use cMP's "Add/Remove" facility to browse the library. (This is certainly viable - a friends of mine does just that as he hates the cMP UI even more than I do.)
It should certainly make it easy to see if minimising the number of scanned cuesheets affects sound quality.
Follow Ups:
Could you please give the specifics of how you configure your server to do as you describe. It seems you must use another computer, the server I guess, to do this then return to the cMP computer to play the transferred cuesheets, yes? Or is this workable with a NAS only networked to the cMP computer?
Could you please give the specifics of how you configure your server to do as you describe.I'll try. This describes how I currently do things; it got simpler over time as these things tend to do.
Setting up:
1. The library sits on a 2TB HDD on a desktop computer organised in folders and sub-folders by genre and artist, pretty much like everyone else's. Call it the M:\ drive. Thus, there's M:\Classical, M:\Jazz, etc at the top with the usual sub-folders beneath.
2. There's a folder called M:\00 which I call the "watched" folder. The drive is shared at root level so that the cMP^2 box can access both the "watched" folder and the data. (Using M:\ for both local and network drivenames makes the cuesheets valid for local and remote use.) I made a shortcut to M:\00, moved it to the "Send To" folder in my Docs & Settings folder (which is normally hidden) and called it "00".
3. Cuesheets sit in a separate folder (where doesn't matter, whatever suits) whose sub-folders mirror the structure of the main library. (There's a DOS command that does that for you.) The cuesheets need to contain the full path to each music file but, again, AJ's Cuesheet Creator does that for you if you ask it nicely. Only the user needs to see this folder. Cuesheets have this form (with the absolute path underlined).
FILE " M:\Classical\18th Century\Mozart W A (1756-1791)\Concertos\Wind\Mozart - Clarinet concerto in A, K 622 - de Boer, NS Amsterdam, Markiz \01 - Mozart - Clarinet concerto in A, K622 - Allegro.flac" WAVE4. I made shortcuts to all the main or favourite folders in my library and put them in a folder out of the way but accessible. I created a shortcut to that folder, gave it a distinctive icon and put it in the Launch Bar. Call it the Browser icon. Next to it I have an icon that logs me on via UVNC to the cMP^2 box. (The shortcuts are not essential but they do save a lot of time.) See pic.
5. The cMP^2 box logs onto the shared drive on bootup using the Net Use command.6. cMP is configured using cMP > Settings > Add to "watch" M:\00. (I also tell it to watch a small folder on the local drive that has one cuesheet in it nearly all of whose data has been deleted. That helps to prevents irritating messages from cMP if, for whatever reason, the cMP box is not logged on and so can't see any cuesheets.) See pic.
To play an album or albums:7. To select an album, I click on the browser icon and get a basic view of the library.
Say I want to play some Chopin. I double-click "Nineteenth Century" then Chopin and then select a cuefile. I right-click on it and select "Send to" > 00. See pic.
The cue file is copied to M:\00. I usually shut Explorer down at this point as relaunching is quicker than navigating backwards.8. I go to the UVNC window tracking the cMP^2 box and click "Refresh" to have cMP display the selected album. Thereafter, it's as normal.
Edits: 02/07/12
Since like many I have lost a lot of functionality on cmp. So I rip new music on my desktop. When I have 10-15 discs ripped I shut down cmp, take out one of my data discs, load into my docking station and use copyto software to copy all the files onto the data disc. Thanks to Jack Wong for the tip on Copyto. While still in my docking station I create a folder on my data disc. Into the folder I load my cues. I name the folder Cues.You have to revise cues so they have an absolute path to the file. In my case the data disc is D: on cmp, so in the cue on the file name line (say the music is Taj Mahall Live) I revise the file name line to this
File name "D:\Taj Mahall Live.wav" wave
Now when I load the data disc back into cmp I can go to the ADD / REMOVE text and click add...then D:\ will show up along with the folder named Cues. So if I remove all other discs (yes even D) I only have those cues in the Cue file showing in CMP. Hit play and you get a nice sq pop. To test it load D:\ back into the CMP library and play Taj Mahal Live again and you will notice a sq degredation slight but noticeable.
I just did it and will now load all my cues into subfolders henceforward. A bit of work but isn't that we are all about in the pursuit of sq?
We can all thanks Ryelands for this easy tweak.
Edits: 02/07/12 02/07/12 02/07/12
Post a Followup:
| FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
