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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: KC5 on April 04, 2004, 08:46:54 PM
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i got a question for those who use the jb3 for playback, or know alot about it. i've transferred a lot of albums to my jb3. about half way through the transfers i realized i could change some of the album/artist info prior to the final transfer to the jb3. does anyone know how i can recognize the files in "my documents" under the jb3 as an external harddrive? can i change the album/artist info?
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im a lil confused, but you CANNOT change file names once its on the jb3, it MUST be done externally!!
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i just asked this question at nomadness. a guy said you need to use either creative's playcenter ( which i looked everywhere and couldn't find a way ), or notmad, or some other software. notmad does the trick just fine. what i had done originally was transfer an album ( cd ) with artist name too, and artist name with album name too! and genre. follow me?! all i wanted to see under artist in the jb3 was the artist name, not the name of the album too, and same for album :) so if i "browse" artist i'll see only the name of the artist! and if i browse the albums all i'll see is the name of the albums. ok--anywhey, notmad allows you to see all the audio files on the jb3 and allows you to rename but doesn't mess with the tunes themselves. hehe...
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In playcenter, you just click on the file, then click again to rename it - just like in windows (not a double-click, two single clicks)
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the way i do this is in playcenter:
rip a cd
find it in "my computers" ( in the playcenter--left side )
choose the whole cd
and click transfer
i'm prompted for album/artist ( usually written already ) and genre before the transfer happens--this is where i should've made my decision about what i wanted on the jb3 regarding naming.
the problem is/was renaming the cd ( folder ), not the tunes themselves. in notmad i was able to rename the cds ( folders--while they were on the jb3 ), thus really creating a "jukebox". i hook my jb3 to my stereo, find a genre ( jazz ) and it plays jazz tunes at random. if i prefer to playback a cd i choose that particular cd and play it. i transferred over 20cds in the last couple of days, stuff ranging from jazz, new wave, rock to classical. pretty cool device--wish i had gotten one with a larger hd :)
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def a neat lil box
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yep,
and i'm more intrigued about using one for recording. seems alot of you are feeling confident that you don't need a dat backup. i've read a lot of the threads, subscribe to the jb3tapers group, and read the nomadness forum. i'm about ready to give it a try. i think i'll sell one of my d8s and get another jb3 for recording.
so bean, you don't use a dat anymore?
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yep,
and i'm more intrigued about using one for recording. seems alot of you are feeling confident that you don't need a dat backup. i've read a lot of the threads, subscribe to the jb3tapers group, and read the nomadness forum. i'm about ready to give it a try. i think i'll sell one of my d8s and get another jb3 for recording.
so bean, you don't use a dat anymore?
no more, long live dat!!
ive been very secure w/ it so far, but i did run dat backup for a couple shows!!
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With the playcenter left side source: ie CD right side JB3 when you rip tracks to your JB3 you can input info. I put artist-date-set info here to save me time later. Then after I rip my tracks to my JB3 I right click the track on the right side of the screen(JB3) side and select all. Then I edit album/artist/genre all at once but make sure to leave track 01, track 02, etc before each track if you want the show to play in the right order. When I rip a show to my JB3 it looks like this:
Track: Artist: Album: Genre:
Track 01-gd-08-27-72-I GD gd-08-27-72 Pschedelic
I hope this helps because I learned the hard way after tranferin' hours and hours of shows.
Peace