At 05:48 AM 12/4/98 -0800, Shawn Gordon wrote:
>I am trying to find a CD cabinet that will hold at least 800 CD's, and has
>doors.

I know it's not exactly what you asked for, but perhaps it's what you
actually seek:  Sony makes a line of CD players which can hold 200 CDs.
These range in price from about $200 up to $1000 or so.  The high end ones
support slaving a low end one making it appear as a 400 disc player with
all the functionality of the master unit.  I find it to be highly
advantageous over manually moving CDs from the rack to the player and back.

With 800 CDs, I suggest either picking the 400 (or 200) you listen to on a
regular basis and load up the player, or just buy two high end players and
two slave players and load them all up.  The liner notes go in books
provided with the players and the cases go in a box in the closet.

BTW, the remotes and players have switches to change between 3 remote
"channels" so that up to 3 Sony CD players can be used with the remote.
And when slaving the low end units to the master units, they appear as a
single channel.  So one remote can handle up to 1200 CDs.

I especially like the ability to "shuffle play" within all the CDs in a
category.  It's also nice to be able to have continuous music by
automatically fading out one song as the next fades in from the other unit.
 This works by one unit queuing the next disc as the other unit plays.

The players (even the low end ones I think) support entering the info on
each disc and track into the player so you can find the disc you want
without having to know the slot number it's in, though you can do that too.
 The high end players support a standard PS/2 keyboard to enter and edit
the data.  The low end ones have to have the data entered via the remote, a
tedious procedure at best.
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Jeff Woods
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