Re: CDJ Problems & New Ideas

I'll address these one at a time...

1). I worked around the save problem by creating a playlist under an old version, then renaming it in dos.

fixed it.

2). Either/Or Random/Shuffle seems to corrupt a playlist. I created a playlist with just some 1970s new

wave tracks, then hit shuffle and random a few times, and the tracks changed into Rolling Stomes

numbers. I know that is a pretty vague explanation, but something is wrong with the mechanism.

can you send me you playlist and library? I'd like to check this out.

3). Window sizes are not saved

I know. The will be eventually.

4). In the playlist the title buttons do not sort the fields as you would expect them to do.

There is no sorting in the playist on purpose. I decided that it makes things very confusing to not show things in the order that they will be played.

5). When you open a playlist it seems to merge with the existing open one.

A "feature" for now. Just clear the list beforehand if you don't like it. You can also drag and drop one in to a specific location in the playlist. Everything will change one I move to having multiple playlist windows.

6). The last played field doesn't seem to do anything, it would be useful if it did.

It will, I just haven't got to it yet. I'll be adding a number of interesting fields.

The following are ideas for new features:

A). Add Lock Icon to library and playlist, this would stop editing when locked. It is very easy to change

something e.g. names, and song orders, when you are really just copying between library and playlist. If

you could lock the individual files (say add LOCKED to the front of the test file), then life would be much

easier. And also stop my 1 year old son from wipeing stuff just cos the teletubby hit the keyboard.

good idea.

B). Add a most-recently-used (MRU) list to the file menu, then the most recent playlists could be

accessed real easy, say the last 8.

it will come with the multiple playlist window stuff.

C). Add a command line mode, i.e. if you specify a playlist on the command line after CDJ it will start

playing automatically when CDJ starts. This would be good for those of us who have CDJ in the startup

menu.

it already does this :)

D). Add CDJ commands to the events screen in options. E.g. a startup load playlist etc.

also in the works - you'll even be able to control CDJ from other progams using this technique.