Denon HD-2500 Questions - Genre & Database

[ian8limelight]

Gary,

Here's the original two questions from the last thread.



12-05-2007, 10:50 AM #57
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Here's another two queries .......

I was updating the my database (via PC) this morning. When I went to save it, after ripping a few more CD's, it said that it couldn't save a number of tracks because the Genre database was full.

Any ideas how I delete some of the Genres from the list as I have now amended the appropriate ID Tags ?


Also, I want to create a new playlist (at home on the PC). I've managed to create a new one but, everytime I add new tracks to it and save the database, the tracks disappear from that playlist, although it does leave the title.

Any ideas about this and also, assuming I get this part right, how do I utilise this playlist in a live scenario - all tracks/database, etc on an external HDD ?



06-05-2007, 11:23 AM #43
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I thought it may be useful to keep this thread going with any further observations/faults (although my Tagging thread maybe should have gone here as well) ...........

Towards the end of last night, I was playing a track which wasn't going down too well so I replaced it with another (via CD). On pressing the Play button (to pause the original track on the Denon HD2500) in order to go back and search for another track, both screens semed to lock up and a lot of the characters corrupted. I wasn't able to do any more searching, etc and it required a complete re-boot.

Any observations ?

[Gary]

Yikes! more multiple questions on a single thread :-)

Genre maximums - how many genres can you think of? 50? 75? ...the Denon DN-HD2500 will cope with 500 different genres.

However, due to most of the on-line tagging databases being input by hundreds of different individuals, most genres end up with many different spellings and splits for example:

"Rock and Roll"
"Rock & Roll"
"Rock n Roll"
"Rock + Roll"
"Rock'n'roll"
"R&R"
"Rock 'n' roll"

There, that's 7 genre slots used, just on 1 genre.

Watch out too for "Hardhouse" vs "Hard house" etc.

Once you've got rid of all the duplcate genre names, re-created the database, you should have more database spaces for genres.

Currently, doing a full "create database" would indeed clear the playlists.

junk on screen? junk in files.

[Shaun]

Gary,

Just wanted to thank you for your perseverance and guidance in these HD2500 topics. :approve:

[Steve 'B']

Gary, I hope this machine is worth the wait. I have spent the last month with it in my living room whilst I have been updating the tags on T&R. Got that progra down to a 'T'.