Sony® CD Changer Control
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Macintosh control over the Sony line of 5, 50, 100, 200, 300 and 400 disc capacity CD Changers.

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Control up to twelve (12) Sony CD Changers at one time, for instant access to up to 4,800 music CDs.
• Any combination of compatible changers may be controlled.
• To find out if your changers are compatible,
Automatic CD Recognition
• Inventory of the CDs in your Sony CD Changers through the Gracenote/CDDB® online database.
• The CDDB database includes info on hundreds of thousands of CD titles, across all musical genres.
• CDDB is the largest music database available, insuring recognition of most, if not all of your CDs.
• The CDDB includes title, artist, songlist and category, and often disc and track notes, for each CD.
• CDDB disc recognition is based on track times, so you don't need to enter or type any information.
• Automatic download of CD Cover art for the CDs in your collection
Upload to Changer Display
• Upload disc information to the Changer's Display for models that support this feature.
• Set preferences to automatically update Changer's Display whenever a CD is inventoried or edited.
• Options to automatically upload CD title, artist or both, whenever a CD is inventoried or edited.
• Automatic formatting options, including all caps, delete spaces, and remove articles.
• Upload your own custom memo for any CD at any time.
• Upload up to 13 characters. Sorry, track and artist memos not supported.
• To find out if your changer supports text memo uploads,
Easily Create Playlists
• Drag and drop, or double-click on individual songs or entire CDs to add them to a playlist.
• An unlimited number of songs or CDs can be added to a playlist, in an order you want.
• Create hours, days or even weeks of continuous music.
• Save a virtually unlimited number of playlists to fit any mood or occasion.
• Name your playlists anything you wish (e.g. "Bob's After Dinner Music") .
• Automatically create playlists based on category, rating, last played, frequency of play, and/or length.
MP3 Support
• Variety of sound file formats supported, including MP3, WAV, AIFF and SD2.
• Easily add MP3 & other sound files to a playlist by simple drag and drop from the desktop.
• Drag and drop songs directly from iTunes into a playlist.
• Alternatively, add MP3 or other sounds files to a playlist through simple menu commands.
• Seamlessly and easily play MP3 and other sound files right along with music from your CD collection.
Powerful Playlist Controls
• Full CD/Play Controls: Play, Pause, Stop, Start of Track, Fast Forward, Fast Rewind, and Next Track.
• Automatically cues the right CD and song, or MP3 or other sound file when needed.
• Pre-cues the next needed song if it is from a different changer or while an MP3 file is playing.
• Automatically stagger songs between different changers or MP3 files for zero wait time between songs.
• Randomly shuffle the songs within a playlist.
• Set playlists to "Loop" for continuous, endless music, or to play straight through to the end.
• Displays currently playing song, artist, CD title, track time, and elapsed time in player marquee.
• Displays total time and number of tracks for the current playlist.
• Option to automatically start playlist on start-up, or when a playlist file is double-clicked.
Control Your Stereo Receiver (Available only with Slink-e Hardware)
• Stick-on infrared (IR) emitter for controlling any brand of stereo receiver that includes a remote control.
• Extensive library of IR device files for controlling many popular brands and models.
• "Learn Remote" feature if a device file does not already exist for your brand and model receiver.
• Create an onscreen "virtual remote control" to issue IR commands (power, volume, etc) as you want.
• Map IR commands to events in the program (e.g. on start-up, turn on stereo and switch to CD input).
• Keyboard shortcuts for controlling volume (increase, decrease, and mute) on your receiver.
"Now Playing" Screen
• "Now Playing" window for viewing info about the current song and playlist.
• Full screen window, perfect for viewing from across a room or on a TV monitor.
• "Now Playing" screen displays song title, artist, CD title and album cover of the currently playing song.
• Can set the "Now Playing" screen to appear automatically after a user selected "idle" time.
Edit CD Information
• Enter your own custom info for each CD, or fill in missing information if CD not found in the CDDB.
• Enter notes, rating, artists, producer, engineer, label, catalog #, release date, live/studio, and more.
• For each track on every CD, enter notes, rating, songwriter and artists.
• Drag and drop pictures from files or other applications to display CD cover or other art for each CD.
Organize & Catalog Your CD Collection
• Display a list of CDs in your Sony Changers, organized by artist, title, category, or location.
• Expand or collapse any line in the Changer List to view or hide the songlist for each CD.
• Click on a CD or song in the Changer List or Playlist to view detailed info in the "Catalog" Window.

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 Create text file reports of the CDs in your Changer List (organized by artist, title, category or location).
• Create tab or other delimited exports of all or any portion of the information in your CD database.

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 Reports can be printed, or imported into other programs.

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 "Find" feature to quickly locate a particular CD, artist or song.

Advanced Features (Available only with Mac OSX version)

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 Fully scriptable to allow users to create their own custom, front-end applications using AppleScript.
• Use AppleScript to integrate into other home automation systems.

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 Map IR commands, AppleScripts, and/or insert delays to particular events within the program.

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 Automatically power on Changers on start-up; option to power off Changers at shutdown.