I am still totally amazed by the sound quality delvered by my Unitiserve/nDac/55PS/Chord Sarum (the latter is very important) but the only downside was the apparent limitation of the DTC/Web Browser in terms of categorising the music. I have been using the genre facility to access the music, but thought you could only file an album to one genre, which was a major drawback. I recently started to develop an alternative database using MS Access in order to extend the viewpoints to my music.
Probably well behind the pack, I have just realised that any album can be assigned to unlimited genres. Therefore I can assign,say. "The Rain Parade" to *80's", "Favourite"," Pyschedelic","Current Playlist" "Paisley Underground" etc.
The Access database is now redundant.
Hope this helps someone.
Posted on: 08 July 2011 by aysil
Thank you Gerry!
I wonder why these operations are not mentioned in the user manual of NDC!
I still don't understand how you assign multiple genres to an album. When I assign a newly created genre to an album, the previous genre is unassigned from the album; allows only one genre to each album!
Posted on: 08 July 2011 by GerryMcg
My mistake, When I dragged the album from one genre to another it remained visible in the original genre as well as the new. However, this appears to be due to the fact that the updating is not automatic, once you click into the previous genre the album disappears. OH well, back to Access.
Apologies for posting incorrectly.
Posted on: 08 July 2011 by GerryMcg
Hi Aysil
Access is a database package supllied as part of Microsoft Office. I previously used a specialist software package - Music Collector for collating data on all my CD's. I have simply imported this database into Access where I can add fields to cover "era", "music style", "rating", "current playlist" "genre" + others.
It does not interface with the DTC and I use it as an alternative means of accessing my music.
