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[rhswain]

Aw geez...  I bought a new PC and bought EMC 8 to go with it, but EMC 8 doesn't seem to support the many many .CL5 files that I migrated over from my old system.  I thought I was all set because when you File|Open, .CL5 is shown in the list of file extensions.  But nooooo...

Anyway, please, somebody tell me that there's a workaround for this!

Alternatively, has anyone seen a specification for the CL5 format?  I could write a little program to parse the files.

[ogdens]

rhswain, on May 7 2006, 03:42 PM, said:

Aw geez...  I bought a new PC and bought EMC 8 to go with it, but EMC 8 doesn't seem to support the many many .CL5 files that I migrated over from my old system.  I thought I was all set because when you File|Open, .CL5 is shown in the list of file extensions.  But nooooo...

Anyway, please, somebody tell me that there's a workaround for this!

Alternatively, has anyone seen a specification for the CL5 format?  I could write a little program to parse the files.

If you still have the the old instalation disc for the ECDC 5, it will co-exist with EMC 8. Do a custom install and dont install Direct CD.

[rhswain]

Easy CD Creator 5 (Platinum) does install (in spite of protests from installer that WinXP is not supported), and it will open my CL5 files.  But it does not recognise my fancy new CD/DVD combo drive, so I can't really use it.  

So now I can *see* the playlist when I open a CL5 file, but I can't do anything with it.

Is there a way to export the playlist into some form that EMC 8 will open?

Edited by rhswain, 07 May 2006 - 03:22 PM.

[d_deweywright]

rhswain, on May 7 2006, 07:22 PM, said:

Easy CD Creator 5 (Platinum) does install (in spite of protests from installer that WinXP is not supported), and it will open my CL5 files.  But it does not recognise my fancy new CD/DVD combo drive, so I can't really use it.  

So now I can *see* the playlist when I open a CL5 file, but I can't do anything with it.

Is there a way to export the playlist into some form that EMC 8 will open?

Unfortunately, the answer is "no".  There isn't any way to export your .CL5 projects into any format that EMC 8 will use.  Then again, ECDC 6 wouldn't open them either.  Nor would ECDC 5 reliably open .CL4 files.  For whatever reason, compatibility with older version project files has never been maintained in the ECDC/EMC product line, you need to rebuild the projects using the new version.

[Brendon]

Easy CD Creator 5 (Platinum) does install (in spite of protests from installer that WinXP is not supported), and it will open my CL5 files.  But it does not recognise my fancy new CD/DVD combo drive, so I can't really use it.  

So now I can *see* the playlist when I open a CL5 file, but I can't do anything with it.

Is there a way to export the playlist into some form that EMC 8 will open?

Your registry could probably be edited to trick ECDC 5 into recognizing your "fancy new CD/DVD combo drive" [are they still making them??]
Do you want to try that?  If so, what is the drive ID of this Combo drive?

Open Windows' Device Manager, and click on the plus (+) next to the CD/DVD drives icon. Tell me exactly what is shown for your combo drive.
You'll need your ECDC updated with the final updater [5.3.5.10] and the "driveup" patch to do this, but the edit itself is quite simple.