Tuesday, 01 February 2000
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Written by
Kim Wilson
Introduction
If managing your CDs has gotten out of hand, as jewel cases both empty
and full are found lying all around your room, the Escient Tunebase
2000i CD Library Management System is a welcome solution. In addition
to the Tunebase 2000i controller, the Escient system can control up to
three 200-disc CD changers, for a total of 600 CDs. The basic system
with the controller and one Sony CDP-CX220 changer runs $3,000.
Unlike previous CD management systems, it's not necessary to spend
hundreds of dollars to program song titles and artwork from your CD
collection into the system. First off, the Tunebase2000i is delivered
with text and artwork for 2,500 popular CDs. If a CD is inserted into
the changer that is not recognized by the system, it calls (via the
built-in modem) Escient's main library to download the appropriate
data. The Tunebase2000i allows users a variety of ways to play back
CD's, ...
