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No, most of the controllers support wired emitters that can have wires that are up to two hundred feet long and longer with an amplifier. Extension wire, emitters and amplifies can be purchased from most home automation dealers and many custom installers will install whole house infrared for you. In fact, infrared light will reflect from walls in many situations so you might not even need extension wire. Try your CD remote to get an idea if this will work.
You can also use the RCA model D940 "DSS Remote Control Signal Sender" to send the signal via radio waves. This device has two parts. The base unit is positioned near your computer. You stick the emitter from the controller onto this unit. Infrared signals are converted to radio waves then sent to the extension unit. it will convert the radio waves back to infrared then send it out. The extension unit can be up to 100' from the base unit. I bought mine at Circuit City for about $60. it works very well!
Yes, if you are using the database version of Lyrics, your CD information including lyrics is available to JukeBox. If you are using the smaller file based version of Lyrics, you will have to import your Lyrics data file to the CDScan database. There is a utility available to do this.
If your controller is connected to a serial port, make sure that you have selected the correct COM port. Confirm that you can control the CD player with the software that came with the controller. If you cannot, contact the manufacturer of the controller.
For all controllers, be sure that you have selected the correct zone (emitter plug). Check the Options (receiver) and Locations (CD Players) dialogs to see that the correct IR zone is indicated.
While there is no software limit to the number of devices that you can control, there are some practical limits. The CD player limit depends on 3 factors - the type of player, the number of zones, and the number of controllable inputs on your receiver.
The simple answer is that JukeBox can control exactly as many players as you can control with your handheld remote controls in one room. Multiple zones effectively give you "more rooms". If you have 2 Pioneer PD-F905's in the same room, they would both respond to the remote control so could not be used in the same room.
If you use stick on emitters you are limited by the number of zones unless you buy IR connecting blocks. For example, the Crescendo has 2 zones so with dual stick on emitters, it can control the receiver and 3 CD players.
JukeBox requires that you select one active receiver so you can control only 1 receiver at any one time. When I wish to play CDs in my kitchen, I must use the Options dialog to select my Aiwa as the receiver.
Just as with your handheld remote control, you can only control 1 device of the same manufacture and model in the same room unless the CD player has some provision such as an A/B switch. If you use stick on emitters, you can consider devices on different zones to be in "different rooms". For example, I can control my Pioneer PD-F904, Sony CDP-CX205, and Aiwa NSX-4000 with a single blast type emitter for a total capacity of 303 CDs. I could control 3 of the CX205's with the same emitter because that remote control has a switch for player 1, 2, or 3 ( for a total capacity of 703 CDs. I could add players from another manufacturer for more capacity.
However, my amplifier only has switchable inputs for CD, LD and tape so I could only connect 3 CD players, limiting me to 600 CDs (if I had 3 200 CD players) at any one time (I could switch cables to get essentially unlimited capacity 600 at a time, but I wouldn't.)
Most likely. If your remote control can do the following things,
JukeBox will most likely control the player. If you already have a controller such as the HouseLinc, verify that you can do these things with that controller. This may require that you get "extended codes" from the manufacturer. Since the Crescendo can learn codes, it can probably learn to do these required commands.
This is most likely caused by placing the title in an inactive location. By default, CDs in inactive locations do not show in the JukeBox CD list (because they cannot be played - that is the definition of inactive). Un-check the Show only Active Titles option from the JukeBox Edit menu. This will cause all registered CDs to show in the JukeBox CD list even if they are in locations that are not active (like “shelf”). If you see your CD, click on the CD title then look at the bottom left corner of JukeBox to see where the CD is. If it is not where you want it to be, use the Change Location option from the JukeBox Audio CD menu.
This is most likely caused by editing the author or title of a CD. JukeBox determines a CD by the Author and Title (just as you would). If you edit the title in JukeBox but not in QCD it will appear to be a title that has not been imported. Edit the title in QCD or simply delete the title from the QCD database using the QCD Properties-CD Library dialog.
Yes. You can do this in two ways. If you have more than one zone on your infrared controller, you can connect each emitter to a different zone and set the zone using the CD Locations option.
You should use the type Sony CD Player(sw n) where n is 1, 2 or 3 for switch positions 1, 2 or 3.
You get this message for one of 3 reasons.
This is not a problem because all Sony CD players (except the CX455) operate in the same way. Even though you do not have a track key on your remote control, the CD players will respond to it and thus doe not require a plus 10 key. JukeBox 2 has the codes for the plus 10 key and will use it properly if you have a Sony CX455.
The software assumes that any device that requires a plus 10 key will require it in all cases.
See this if you have multiple players.
How far can the CD Player be away from the IR emitter.
Most of the controllers support the mini Xantech stick-on emitters that we sell. The IRX requires this kind of emitter. The emitters are low power devices so that they will not overload the IR receiver in your CD player. They must be stuck directly over the IR receiver on your CD player (or other device). You can use these devices across the room. If your CD player is too far from the computer (i.e. the cable will not reach) get a mono audio extension cable from Radio Shack. You can also build such a cable from most any two conductor wire and a pair of 35mm jack/plugs. The total cable length can be up to 200'.
I see the emitters blink but I get no response from the CD Player.
Typically this can be caused by one of the following:
I do not see the emitters blink when I play a CD!
Typically this is caused by one of the following:
You must choose the type Sony CX455 (available only with JukeBox2) for your Sony CX455 400 CD player (you cannot choose the type Sony 400 CD player). However Sony has changed the operation of some of the CX455 players. If you experience overruns (the track on the 455 plays into the next track before switching to the next item in the play list), make the following configuration change.
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