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#288281 - 18/10/2006 00:25 Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager?
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31549
Loc: Seattle, WA
I have two CD-ROM drives. One is the real thing, the other one is a virtual drive created with Daemon tools.

When I open Rio Music Manager, it shows the latter. How do I get it to show the former?
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#288282 - 18/10/2006 13:32 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
Is the latter a lower ( closer to A ) drive letter?

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#288283 - 18/10/2006 14:01 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3582
Loc: Columbus, OH
Temporarily disable the virtual drive?
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#288284 - 18/10/2006 14:35 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: RobotCaleb]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31549
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Is the latter a lower ( closer to A ) drive letter?

No, quite the opposite, in fact. I made sure to put the virtual drive at Y:. The real drive is at K.
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#288285 - 18/10/2006 14:38 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31549
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Temporarily disable the virtual drive?

I'm certain that would work. Also, as l0ser implies, changing the order of the drive letters might work, too. But neither work-around would answer my question, which still stands: How do I fix Rio Music Manager?

In fact, let's assume for a moment that I'm a user with two perfectly valid hardware CD-ROM drives, and I want to use both of them. How would I fix Rio Music Manager to show both, or at least to show the one I wanted to use at any given moment?
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#288286 - 18/10/2006 15:12 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5679
Loc: London, UK
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How do I fix Rio Music Manager?


Well, first you rewrite the CD-ripping code contained in it to not use RecDev, which is where there's a certain amount of nastiness involved in enumerating CD drives, and of matching their ASPI SCSI LUNs back to a drive letter.

Then, when you've done that, you should be good to go.

In short, you're probably SOL.
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#288287 - 18/10/2006 16:10 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: Roger]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31549
Loc: Seattle, WA


Okie dokie.
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#288288 - 18/10/2006 23:55 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
rubennyc
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Registered: 27/01/2006
Posts: 142
Loc: New Jersey, USA
I have 2 perfectly working drives (1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD-R) and both seem to work just fine in RMM (2.96). They show up as drives E: and F:.

Must be something else going on.


Edited by rubennyc (18/10/2006 23:57)

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#288289 - 19/10/2006 00:21 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: rubennyc]
msaeger
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Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
Yeah that's what I thought too I remember two showing up when I had two cd drives a while ago.
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#288290 - 19/10/2006 05:10 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: msaeger]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5679
Loc: London, UK
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I remember two showing up when I had two cd drives a while ago.


Oh, it definitely works, mostly. I even tested it with 3 drives at one point. Must be something screwy with Tony's configuration.

Tony: can you (somehow) find out which ASPI ID has been assigned to your real CD-ROM drive, and which to your virtual one? Maybe they've somehow got the same ID, or maybe one of them doesn't have one? Or maybe they're in the opposite order to the drive letters?

ISTR that it's somewhere in the registry. If I remember later, I'll have a poke around when I get to work (and when I'll have a Windows box handy).
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#288291 - 20/10/2006 12:14 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: Roger]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31549
Loc: Seattle, WA
Hey, interesting point. I think that when you create the virtual drive in Daemon Tools, you can assign it any ID you like.

When I get back home, maybe I'll have a chance to give it a try before I get too wrapped up in my first week of work at Microsoft.
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#288292 - 20/10/2006 16:06 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
Robotic
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Registered: 06/04/2005
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Loc: Seattle transplant
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...before I get too wrapped up in my first week of work at Microsoft.

Congratulations!

/first I've heard of it.
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#288293 - 20/10/2006 19:41 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
tanstaafl.
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Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5538
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
...before I get too wrapped up in my first week of work at Microsoft.

"You don't know the power of the dark side..."

tanstaafl.
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#288294 - 21/10/2006 11:48 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tanstaafl.]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
Once you go down the dark corridor, forever will it guide your resume.
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#288295 - 23/10/2006 03:58 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: Robotic]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31549
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Congratulations!

Thanks, guys. I know you'll be giving me some ribbing for it, but keep this in mind: I'll be working on the team that tests the patches and hotfixes that go out. So, being someone who used to complain most vociferously about their bugs, I can now be part of the solution instead. If only a small part.
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#288296 - 23/10/2006 09:26 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
sein
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Registered: 07/01/2005
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I've heard good things from people about working at Microsoft. Congratulations!
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#288297 - 23/10/2006 19:00 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
Robotic
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Registered: 06/04/2005
Posts: 2026
Loc: Seattle transplant
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I'll be working on the team that tests the patches and hotfixes that go out.

Nonsense! You should be administering their knowledge database!
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#288298 - 25/10/2006 15:25 Re: Multiple CD-ROM drives in Rio Music Manager? [Re: tfabris]
peter
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4169
Loc: Cambridge, England
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I'll be working on the team that tests the patches and hotfixes that go out.

Do say thanks from me if you run into anyone who worked on 922814...

Peter

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