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| Subject: | Sony Changers - Custom File |
--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: "Roland M" <mdx400@hotmail.com>
>--> XDP4000X-List message posted by: Pete <dabrow@orange.net>
>
>Fixed, thanks guys. It was for the XES, had to press list and hold for 2
>seconds then list again along with number 9 on the remote to wipe names.
>A bit more complicated on the older stuff it seams.
>
>Pete
Actually I don't know that it is any different on non-XES stuff. In fact I
didn't know there was a way to do a one-step delete for Custom File at all.
As for the FIFO theory, that isn't how Custom File works... Well at least
not according to every Sony manual I've seen. I've never actually hit the
220 disc limit I have with 2 changers (each changer gives you 110 discs and
memory is shared over UniLink so it doesn't matter what changer you put a
disc in once programmed; you guys with 4-5 changers you've got a
half-thousand or more available spots in memory!).
When you hit the limit, according to the Sony manuals at least, it will
display "FULL" on the HU's display--it won't bump off the first disc
programmed.
Removing power and pressing reset won't do it either (thank goodness or I'd
have lost my disc memory many times by now!).
To delete titles on most UniLink HUs you're supposed to hold down LIST until
the text entry comes up and then hold down DISP until it switches to
CustomFile review mode in which you can view/scroll through ALL of the
changer's entries (the changer you happen to be controlling at the moment).
You can either delete the titles by programming them to all blanks or
pressing and holding a button when you are viewing the DiscMemo you want to
delete--can't remember which button to press but it is in most user
manuals... I don't know if the LIST + 9 trick works on regular units but I
would imagine Sony would have had to made some method for techs to do it in
the shop.
The only time I've ever seen CustomFile erased entirely was when I sent a
changer in for repair to Sony once. When I got it back from them, the
entire CustomFile memory was erased. Not a big deal because I didn't have
many entries in that changer but a caution for ppl that ever have to get a
changer repaired--you may want to include a note asking them not to erase
the custom file, if at all possible!
All that said, I think its kinda cool that the Custom File memory stays
there all the time. When you buy a "new" but used changer from someone you
can see all the CDs they listened to before you--if they programmed any of
them, that is. I was actually surprised that when I bought my T60 changer
off a guy that hadn't used it in years he had a lot of the same CDs I
had/listened to the same type of music. I realised it when I had some discs
in the T60 that I already programmed into the 828 and when I put them in the
T60 the titles in there overrode the ones from the 828 since they were in
the T60 and names were already there for those CDs. Curious I took a "trip"
through the CustomFile memory, just out of interest. Anybody that has a
used changer might want to take a look... :)
Roland M.
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