It's probably one of the reasons I have so little hair now. I don't recall anyone asking your question in the past so I can only give you my best guess. It always was a very unreliable application. Saving in CDSD was always buggy which may be one reason Roxio chose to write their own. I don't know if this will recover the data when the CDSD file was saved. See if there is a cdsd plist file or something similar. Copy that to the same folder on the other computer that doesn't know the track names. There should be a CDSpinDoctor folder (this is on the computer that originally was using CDSD). There you will see a way to select your user Library. Hold down the option key and choose the Go menu in the Finder. I appreciate your taking time to help and obviously Ralf knows of your expertise as he passed me off to you. Have you any suggestions of file names or types for a further search? I went through all my hard drive looking for hidden files but many files have names I don't recognize and therefore I haven't been able to isolate what files might be Spin Doctor data. I called my credit card company to dispute the $25.īack to your guess about files that could contain metadata. Ok, that's life, no support from the current Corel staff. Suggestions please of how to resurrect the song titles from my hard drive.ĬD Spin Doctor_-104326_Anthony-Bryhans-Computer.pdf I could buy Toast 12 but I'm fear that backwards compatibility has been lost. I bought a newer version of Spin Doctor, version 6 years ago following discussion with Roxio but version 6 didn't recognize the waveforms or songs either. They seem not to transfer to the 10.6 Mac, however. Some place on my main Mac the waveforms and song titles exist. When I try to open the file, rather than seeing the song tiles while the waveform is being regenerated, for some reason the metadata/metafiles are not transfered Spin Doctor generates a new waveform with no preservation of the individual intervals of songs, just one 2 hour long music file. Using File Sharing, I installed Toast/Spin Doctor and a one of the. When the horizontal blue action line reaches the end of its "generation" line, Spin Doctor crashes and I get a long, detailed error report that I don't know how to use to correct the crash. aiff format, using Spin Doctor, the file starts to open I can read the titles of the few songs visible in the window at the bottom of the view while the waveform is being regenerated. The Mac operating system used at the time was 10.6. The version with which I started was included with Toast 7, Spin Doctor 3.1.1.304t, after a series of Roxio upgrades. Pay attention on the left options panel, where you can filter your search to only looking for files, folders, both, or even content within files.Over many years I successfully used Spin Doctor to collect music.You can also search on external hard drives.Use the dropdown select on the right to choose which drive you want to search.If it’s on your computer, EasyFind will find it (even if it takes some time, just let it do its thing.) I’m sure there is some fancy way to make Mac’s internal search functionality better, but I haven’t found a predictable and consistent way yet, therefore I use the free EasyFind app which you can get here from the Mac App Store.ĭownload it, and as soon as you open it up, you can search for any text or file format. Unfortunately, some types of files can be hard to find quickly, you can even search for the exact name of the file, and it won’t show up. If you’re looking for installed apps, no problem, fire up your Spotlight Search and start typing the initial letters of the app and it will pop up in the search results immediately. Searching for things on Mac feels like a combination of awesome and fucking terrible.
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