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In Reply to: RE: Changing drive letters so cues work posted by Dawnrazor on March 27, 2009 at 15:30:03
In a fully optimized cMP setup, I only have to change DCOM service to Manual and start it, then right click on My Computer, select Manage, then select Disk Management, right click on the Partition in question and select change drive letter and follow that through.
"Drive g comes up as drive H in my other pc" : Do you mean by this that you are moving the HDD out of the cmp computer and the music partition is labeled differently? If that's what's going on, that's to be expected - just put it back where it was, please! You don't need to move your HDD to make cuesheets.
Guessing from your description of your files, RCC might make a mess of the cuesheets, and EAC may not work for many of them - same happens for a lot of my music, so don't feel too special! Just use foobar cuesheet creator and deal with the manual editing for your wav cuesheets that will be needed - slowly, over time it will come together. Keep the cuesheets in the folders with the music as you have been doing, and don't worry about the full-address cuesheets for now - you can mess with that later.
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Hey Seger,
In a fully optimized cMP setup, I only have to change DCOM service to Manual and start it, then right click on My Computer, select Manage, then select Disk Management, right click on the Partition in question and select change drive letter and follow that through.
That worked and I changed it to drive H. But here is the very weird part. The cue sheets work if I click on them in the folder view, and cplay opens and plays. BUT from CMP I get an error. FOr some reason it is ADDING to the address and extra "H:\Dawnrazor" so the address that cmp is looking at is "H:\Dawnrazor\H:\Dawnrazor...." The cuesheets address is correct in the file and I know this from looking and the fact that they play in cplay.
I thought it MIGHT be because they are in different places ie the cue is in a different folder. But I tested this by moving the cue to the folder with the .wavs and while it didn't show up in cmps initial "your cues are messed up" diagnostic, it refused to play it anyhow.
What is going on?
"Drive g comes up as drive H in my other pc" : Do you mean by this that you are moving the HDD out of the cmp computer and the music partition is labeled differently? If that's what's going on, that's to be expected - just put it back where it was, please! You don't need to move your HDD to make cuesheets.
Actually it is easier to move to another computer to do it. A. I don't have to install anymore stuff on the cmp rig, and B. the other computer is more comfortable for that kind of stuff.
And the reason I am in this mess is because I was doing what you suggested and using foobar to edit my cuesheets. (OK I did that years ago so it is not your fault :)) See none of the cues had any track titles due to amq, so I was manually adding them. I only got to about 30% of the files and those are the ones that are messed up. I am guessing that foobar switched to an absolute address and the other files have eacs non-absolute address and that is why those work.
Yeah, I know I am not special. Just late to the cmp2 party. Typical Dawnrazor....
Dawnrazor -- I just went thru the same thing-- have rcc put the cue files within the subdirectories that the music files are in -- that should work.
Hey mark,
I think I figured that out but RCC would get the artist names wrong. But Alan made some updates and now I can get it to work fine I think.
However, I already switched back to the old files that had one big file and a cue sheet. The reason I was trying to redo the cuesheets was because I cut some of them into individual .wavs for winamp, and took the liberty to actually title the tracks since my cue sheets never had the info.
So now I have switched back, but soon will get the cut files and get it to work with RCC.
Thanks for the info!
Glad you sorted out the drive letters!
If you're using full-address cuesheets with cMP, or even if you aren't but you are using cPlay, you have to tick "No" next to "RAM Load" in cMP settings. That might be the problem. Otherwise I'm scratching my head...
"Actually it is easier to move to another computer to do it...the other computer is more comfortable for that kind of stuff."
That's what I do - I'm at my workhorse computer in my office-cum-scrapyard where I have copies of all my audio and video files and a couple of PCs going - I do all ripping, tagging and cuesheet making here and then copy the finished products to the main music computer.
I don't know about amq, but I would recommend that you make new cuesheets with foobar and do any editing needed afterwards in Notepad. Foobar doesn't give you absolute addresses, as far as I know.
Here's a small but fun tip: set up a button for cuesheet creator (this is in Columns UI, Playlist View): right click anywhere on the existing buttons, select Customize, then click on Add button, then Change button, click "Context menu items" in the Command group box, click on "Current playlist selection" in the Item group box, then go down and highlight "Utils/save as cuesheet", click OK. Now to the right of the "Display:" line select "Text" in the dropdown, tick the "Use custom text" box and type "CUE" in the box to the right, click OK. Now you have a "CUE" button! I've made a few other useful buttons this way as well.
Hey Segers,
Don't know how I missed this. Anyhow, on the ram load option in cmp, I have it selected, but AM using cplay. It works fine.
Works, but it's not necessarily the best way to use cPlay. Why ask cMP to load to RAM when cPlay itself is doing it for you in a more sophisticated way? cMP will load all at once at the beginnng (if you have sufficient memory), but cPlay doesn't - it gets going quicker and allows you to use as little as 256MB RAM with large file sizes (wav). Most folks are reporting improvements with less RAM - I find it so, a bit more relaxed, natural sound, very immediate.
You may want to use RAM load from cMP if for some reason you are already using 1GB RAM, and for memory playback you need it if you are using other media players.
Thanks Segers,
I had no idea it worked like that. Guess i just saw the option and thought it was a good idea. I changed it but havent had a chance to listen yet.
Thanks.
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