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The "Slot" field on the CD Trustee Album detail screen lets you number your CDs. Just be aware that this is a text field, not strictly a numeric field. Therefore, it sorts as such. If you use numbers, make SURE you place leading zeros in the numbers, such as 00001, 00002, etc. If you were to just use 1, 2, etc, then you will find that "10" sorts before "2" in the "Albums by Slot" report, since the first character of "10" (the "1") sorts before the first character of "2". Make sure all slot numbers are the same length, i.e. the same number of characters. Because the slot field is alphanumeric, you can devise all sorts of interesting schemes. For example, if you have 2 jukebox players, you can call the first player letter "A", and the second player letter "B". Your slot values can then be "A0001", "A0002", "B0001", etc. The same can be done for shelves or drawers in your storage system. Just make sure you decide on a scheme that works well for you (now and in the future) before you start filling in the slot field for each CD. Slots can also be assigned automatically as they are looked up in the Internet database. You simply indicate the starting slot number on the "Add CDs automatically" screen and then look them up. The slot values will be assigned in the order you inserted the CDs, automatically incrementing the number. You must indicate the starting slot number during each lookup session. This feature even works if you have letters in front of the numbers in your slot numbering scheme. Only the numbers in the last part of the slot field are incremented. You can also have it assign the same slot value to every album added during any lookup session. This is useful if you are only concerned with knowing which shelf or drawer the CD is in. There is also a feature that makes it much easier to manually assign (or view) slot numbers, and allows you to display them in slot number order. Select "Album Table Maintenance" from the Edit menu. This displays all your albums in a table, and lets you sort them by slot. You can quickly change slot numbers on many albums this way. Just type over the slot field and move to the next album.
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