How to change order of CD/DVD listing -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:How to change order of CD/DVD listing Posted by: briargallery Date:3/12/2013 11:46:42 AM After using Sound Forge for over a decade, I still have not been able to figure out how the program goes about deciding IN WHAT ORDER it lists available CD/DVD drives within the "Extract Audio from CD" dialogue box. I've always had multiple CD/DVD drives in my computers and have long used Sound Forge to rip the contents of audio books into WAV or WMA files. At the moment I use computers that have six optical drives each, named from O to T. When ripping discs, it's obviously much quicker if these drives appear in the Sound Forge "Extract Audio from CD" dialogue box IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. But whenever I change controller cards, it always takes an extraordinary amount of fiddling, diddling, and random alchemy to prod SF into such a listing. Changing the order in which the drives are plugged into my various SATA ports makes some kind of difference - but I long ago learned that arranging hardware connections so that the drives appear in Administrative Tools/Disc Manager in numerical and alphabetical order (Drive 0 = O, Drive 1 = P, Drive 2 = Q ... and so forth) NEVER produces a similar list within Sound Forge. Nor have I ever found a repeatable kind of relationship between Disc Manager's list and Sound Forge's list. Instead each case is different, and I seem to arrive at it by trial and error, with no clear logic. What usually happens is that after the drives settle into an alphabetical order within Sound Forge, I then have to physically rearrange the drives in their storage cabinet (WITHOUT changing their cable connections to the computer) so that the drives run alphabetically, top to bottom, O to T. (Each drive has its own separate SATA cable to the computer - I don't use any port multipliers.) At the moment, in one of my two computers, what Drive Manager lists as CD-ROM 0 is asssigned the drive letter P. CD-ROM 1 is S, CD-ROM 2 is R, CD-ROM 3 is Q, CD-ROM 4 is T, CD-ROM 5 is O. In terms of hardware connections, O (Drive 5) is actually connected to internal SATA port 3, P is attached to an additional SATA controller in my first PCI-e port, S is attached to another SATA controller ... etc. etc. And yet this jumble of connections results in a straight-forward alphabetical listing within Sound Forge - Drives O through T. Now: does anyone know of a way to avoid all this hardware "bricolage" - and simply go inside the Sound Forge program itself (somewhere in the Registry, perhaps?) and manually set the order of the display inside the "Extract Audio from CD" dialogue box? I've just added a new contoller card into another of my computers, and, naturally enough, my previous setup has fallen apart - and Drive T seems determined to be listed BEFORE Drives R and S, no matter how I swap cables around. If I keep poking around for many hours, I'm sure I'll stumble into another unrepeatable solution. But I do wish there were a less time-consuming approach to the problem. I should mention I'm using Sound Forge 10 at the moment and am running under both Windows 7 and Windows XP. But I've always run into this problem, going back into SF single-digits running under Windows 2000. Many thanks. Message last edited on3/12/2013 11:50:04 AM bybriargallery.

After using Sound Forge for over a decade, I still have not been able to figure out how the program goes about deciding IN WHAT ORDER it lists available CD/DVD drives within the "Extract Audio from CD" dialogue box.

I've always had multiple CD/DVD drives in my computers and have long used Sound Forge to rip the contents of audio books into WAV or WMA files. At the moment I use computers that have six optical drives each, named from O to T. When ripping discs, it's obviously much quicker if these drives appear in the Sound Forge "Extract Audio from CD" dialogue box IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. But whenever I change controller cards, it always takes an extraordinary amount of fiddling, diddling, and random alchemy to prod SF into such a listing. Changing the order in which the drives are plugged into my various SATA ports makes some kind of difference - but I long ago learned that arranging hardware connections so that the drives appear in Administrative Tools/Disc Manager in numerical and alphabetical order (Drive 0 = O, Drive 1 = P, Drive 2 = Q ... and so forth) NEVER produces a similar list within Sound Forge. Nor have I ever found a repeatable kind of relationship between Disc Manager's list and Sound Forge's list. Instead each case is different, and I seem to arrive at it by trial and error, with no clear logic. What usually happens is that after the drives settle into an alphabetical order within Sound Forge, I then have to physically rearrange the drives in their storage cabinet (WITHOUT changing their cable connections to the computer) so that the drives run alphabetically, top to bottom, O to T.

(Each drive has its own separate SATA cable to the computer - I don't use any port multipliers.)

At the moment, in one of my two computers, what Drive Manager lists as CD-ROM 0 is asssigned the drive letter P. CD-ROM 1 is S, CD-ROM 2 is R, CD-ROM 3 is Q, CD-ROM 4 is T, CD-ROM 5 is O. In terms of hardware connections, O (Drive 5) is actually connected to internal SATA port 3, P is attached to an additional SATA controller in my first PCI-e port, S is attached to another SATA controller ... etc. etc. And yet this jumble of connections results in a straight-forward alphabetical listing within Sound Forge - Drives O through T.

Now: does anyone know of a way to avoid all this hardware "bricolage" - and simply go inside the Sound Forge program itself (somewhere in the Registry, perhaps?) and manually set the order of the display inside the "Extract Audio from CD" dialogue box?

I've just added a new contoller card into another of my computers, and, naturally enough, my previous setup has fallen apart - and Drive T seems determined to be listed BEFORE Drives R and S, no matter how I swap cables around. If I keep poking around for many hours, I'm sure I'll stumble into another unrepeatable solution. But I do wish there were a less time-consuming approach to the problem.

I should mention I'm using Sound Forge 10 at the moment and am running under both Windows 7 and Windows XP. But I've always run into this problem, going back into SF single-digits running under Windows 2000.

Many thanks.