Thank you Gregor …
Your valuable input is much appreciated.
But, I just retested … again with DDPs that contained CD Text (Warner Label release) and two without. The HOFA Player did not display genre.
DDP created in WL on Windows 7 Professional, tested on OSX.
Hi Paul!
Maybe you can send me the CDTEXT.bin files of these images to plugins@hofa.de and let me know if you are using the latest DDP Player version (1.0.14).
Regards,
Gregor
Will do (edit: email sent). I am not using the latest version. Mine is V1.0.9.
Hi Paul!
You’re right. Version 1.0.9 did not read genres stored as ID codes correctly. Because of that bug, also the empty Wavelab entries were not shown. This has been fixed in later version.
If you are only using Wavelab DDP images, you might be fine to go on with V1.0.9. But if you use images created with different applicaions I recommend to update to the latest version.
Regards,
Gregor
Hi Gregor …
Thank you. Appreciate you taking the time to review this.
We have updated our machines to the latest version.
Hi,
I only use Wavelab to produce DDPs and use HOFA Player Maker to distribute for client approval. The bug in v1.09 worked great for me! Can I request that HOFA ignores empty columns? If this can be better handled in Wavelab then I would like to request this too!
So, is there no way for a future Wavelab to leave this field completely empty like it does with other fields when no text is entered like songwriter, composer etc?
Yes please
FYI, I have requested some insight about this to Gear, which is specialist on the topic.
Some more information: It may be that this is not only a WL issue.
I assist a well known replication company with technical issues. In this context, I received a DDP prepared from Sequo*a by another professional mastering engineer.
That had CD Text, but some fields were deliberately left empty … for example, track artist and track message are deliberately blank. However, the latest version (V1.0.14) HOFA player displays those columns (ie some blank/empty R-W subcodes). Genre was not displayed.
For commercial confidentiality reasons, I cannot pass on specifics like screenshots or CDTEXT.bin files of anything to do with this this DDP.
Hi!
To me that empty Genre entry still makes no sense as it is not necessary. The total memory space that can be used for CD-Text is pretty small, so in cases where you have a lot of text, this useless entry could make the difference if it fits on the CD or not.
As we want to minimize any confusion for the end users and as we don’t know if this will be changed in Wavelab, we have decided that with the next update of HOFA DDP-Player any empty columns will be hidden in the tracklist table.
It will take some time until that update is available, but I will post it in this thread when it is released.
Best Regards,
Gregor Pogatzki
HOFA-Plugins
Hi Gregor,
Thanks for following up on this. I think it will be great that if the Album Genre field is either truly empty, or just marked as unused like WaveLab currently does in a DDP set, that the column will not appear at all in the HOFA DDP Player for clients.
I send every project to clients with the HOFA DDP Player for approval because it is so stable and easy to use/install. Even if they don’t plan to make CDs, it’s the best way to hear the album in sequence and view all the titles before we move on to making the other master formats. Plus, they have an easy option to export each song in what is still the most standard format for digital distribution (unfortunately) which is 16-bit/44.1k WAV.
I suppose that in the future, master files higher than 16-bit/44.1k WAV will be more widely accepted but for now it’s a handy scenario.
Thanks again for a great product and customer support.
Hi!
We have now released HOFA DDP Player and DDP Player Maker V1.0.15.
This version will hide the empty Genre entry that is always present in DDP images created with WaveLab.
Best Regards,
Gregor Pogatzki
HOFA-Plugins
Great!
Yes, this and some other minor workflow improvements make the HOFA DDP Player Maker even better after this update. Excellent software and support.
Thank you.
Thanks very much. Works great. One less thing for the confused client to stress about!
Exactly, though surprisingly I had very few clients email me about why the genre was blank. It’s still nice to have this cleaned up and show only the entered info.
Good day! I have just joined the forum, thanks to all for having me. I’m using WL 8.0.5 and I want cd’s I create from montage to display CD Text when played back on other cd players. So far I’ve been unsuccessful. I’ll appreciate any feed back available. Thanks in advance.