I have the CDP-CX400, recommend it highly, it has changed my life.
The CX-450 has a cool two-way LCD remote, is the only difference I think.

I spent 5 evenings putting 400cds into it, keying in the artist/album
name, and simultaneously making a spreadsheet of disk #, artist, album
name.  Then I saved all the jewel case inserts and threw out all the
cases and gave away the CD holding rack thingy.  This increased the size
of my manhattan apartment by 10%.  Then I printed the spreadsheet twice,
once sorted by disk # and once sorted by artist name (very useful!) in a
tiny font onto front and back of two pieces of paper and put them into
plastic sealer stuff.

Now I can play any album in 15 seconds.  Look up artist, then album
name, key in disc # on the remote.

Its fantastic.

The CDs will last forever, never get lost, and I burn a copy for the
ones to play on the subway or take travelling etc.

But this was 2 years ago and now I have another 100cds.

So next big step is to encode everything in FLAC (lossless) and extract
and save a table-of-contents for each disc.  Then recode in mp3 or
whatever for an mp3 player for today, but someday somebody will write a
jukebox player that will use TOC info to do perfect track-to-track
pauses (or lack thereof), so playing the lossless FLAC encoding will be
identical in every way to playing the CD.

I just need to get a roundtuit.  :)

My digital audio 2c FWIW,
J



Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:28:41 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm brainstorming for my next (hobby) project, an automatic CDROM-changer for
>>my entire CD collection, total ~450 CD/CDROM/DVDs. In these quantities it is
>>mostly called a jukebox. I was thinking of a PIC controlling the robotics,
>>interfaced via RS232 to my computer, and an external disk drive.
>>But I can't find a way to pack the cd's efficiently (the main reason to do
>>this) and pick them up in a non-complicated manner.
>>In professional jukeboxes, all CD's are in small trays but I don't like the
>>idea to make 500 complicated trays myself.
>>Do any of you have a good idea?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Koen van Leeuwen
>
>
> Sony make a pretty cheap 400 disc CD changer (CDP-CX450 I think) - hacking one of these would save
> you a lot of work....
>
> --
> http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList
> mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu
>
>


--
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary
and those who don't."

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.