I am building up my Music box library, so each time I am driving in the car, I throw in a CD and start recroding to the Music Box. Works fine on longer tipes, but suppose I do a 15 minute run and it only records 8 of 12 tracks, and I need to leave. The next time I start the car, and hit record, is it:

- smart enough to know it already recorded some tracks and it just needs to do the rest...

-or is it going to start from scratch and record all 12 ( ie and give me a duplicate set 8 which I will need to delete after)

In this particular case, although these are commercial CD's, they are not in the onboad gracenote database (they are new), so the track names/albums are all based on default date/times. Is that a factor? I know I can use the export/import feature to correct the track titles, but I am first curious about how the recording-to-MusicBox works when not all of the CD was recorded.

 

I have only done a couple of CDs so far (all original CDs and was IDed by the Gracenote DB).

I had to stop both of them mid-way through and the next time around it picked up where it left off.

I don't have duplicates in the HD (or to put this more accurately, when I see a list of songs, no duplicates are listed).

 

Did you need to hit record again, or did it start recording on its own??

 

That depends on the setting you use for recording. Default is you have to hit record again. Optional menu pick is to auto-record.

 

I don't have auto-record new CDs turned on.
So I had to hit record again.

 

I now set the auto-record ON and it works great. Per above, it records where istleft off and creates no duplicates.

It's fast as well. While you can listen anything during the record mode, I just left the CD on, and by the time I heard the third song on the CD, it was done.

Also tried the gracenote export/import and it worked perfectly as well.

Only thing I would have liked to see is a better presentation of the index of albums on the music box. Right now, it defaults to a track level ( of the first album I assume) and you cant go up a level to see the liwt of albums. You need to find the feature to search by album to see the index , and while the list can be sorted, the fields it sorts on are not visible, so it doesnt really look sorted.

The CF works a bit differnetly. I have folders for each artist, and I can see the 'tree' of folders very intuitively.

But this is very minor in the scheme of things.

 

If you have the MB set up to search by album, you can very quickly sroll though all your albums by using the tuning located **** to the right of the CD slot.

 

While I don't know what happens if you stop mid-way, I've never had a CD take more than 6-8 minutes to rip completely.

 

^^ Agreed.
I was a bit surprised to hear you didn't record the whole thing in one session.
It's usually done by the 5th or 6th song.

 

Correct. It now is done by then or even sooner, now that I have auto-record on. In my orignal scenario, it was off, so by the time I remembered to turn in on, my short run was almost over, so it didnt finish. With auto-record on it works fine.

For the first few weeks I am keeping a shoebox full of CDs in the back seat, so when I get in, I make sure to throw one or more in per trip. Too bad you cant run a 50 foot USB cable from the house to the car!

Have not tried putting the same CD in twice - its probably smart enough to know not to record again.