Hard Disc Drive

[Paul2002]

Hi

when inserting a CD and pressing record, after all the tracks have been recorded onto the Hard Disc Drive I find that it hasn't stored the Album, Artist and Track data. Yet, when I play a disc in CD mode all the data is displayed correctly.

Any clues?

[mhult]

Hi

when inserting a CD and pressing record, after all the tracks have been recorded onto the Hard Disc Drive I find that it hasn't stored the Album, Artist and Track data. Yet, when I play a disc in CD mode all the data is displayed correctly.

Any clues?

Weird! The only times the track names don't appear for me is when the CD is too new to be in the Gracenote database. Of course, the names are then missing for both the CD and the hard disk recording, not just for the latter. I'm clueless.

[Paul2002]

Surely this can't just be happening to me? :duh:

I bought a new release CD at the weekend, popped it in the CD player, all the album, artist track details were displayed. Yet when recorded onto the hard drive it loses all this data. What's happening !

[Parthiban]

Surely this can't just be happening to me? :duh:

I bought a new release CD at the weekend, popped it in the CD player, all the album, artist track details were displayed. Yet when recorded onto the hard drive it loses all this data. What's happening !

I don't know how this works but if as the person above mentioned it uses a database, then new CDs are unlikely to be in there. If that is true though, how does the database get updated?

Don't the new ISs have a USB port though? If it was me I'd just get a cheap external hard drive and put all my music on there :)

[ChickenRun]

The USB HDD works OK.

One niggle - I have c480 CD's contained, and the random play option only seems to cover c150 folders within range of the starting track. Anyone else experience this?

[Parthiban]

The USB HDD works OK.

One niggle - I have c480 CD's contained, and the random play option only seems to cover c150 folders within range of the starting track. Anyone else experience this?

Often these sorts of systems do have limitations like that. They will allow a certain number of folders of width, and then a certain number of folders in depth (folders in folders).

Are they currently arranged as separate albums? You could try sorting them so the top level folder is artist, and then each album from that artist under each folder.

If that doesn't work you could try putting tracks just under artist headers as you still should be able to separate them by album using the ID3 tags?