New Feature Request

[dellsam34]

Can you guys add "Load" button next to eject on the Toolbar so the disc tray can be closed from the app? Thanks.

[dellsam34]

Any response from the developers?

[Woodstock]

"The developers" is "Mike Admin", and he hasn't been very visible recently. His last login was when he updated the beta key.

[Ezatoka]

Can you guys add "Load" button next to eject on the Toolbar so the disc tray can be closed from the app? Thanks.

Because I really want to know why: What is the usecase of this? You have to place the disc in the tray anyway, so you also can either give the tray a slight nudge or press the button on the disc drive to close the tray.

[dellsam34]

I'll give you two reasons, 1- If the drive is connected externally to the computer and just sitting on the desk it's hard to push the close/load button or the tray, it will slide the entire drive backward, So closing the tray from the program makes it much more convenient and safe, 2- Some computers sitting on the floor level are too low to bend down and press the load button when the tray is open, in this case you can push the tray but some people prefer to use the button.

[Ezatoka]

Thank you, makes it much easier for me to understand such a need (and maybe others as well)

[dellsam34]

Thanks, and I don't think the implementation is extreme, Basically all drives accept the load/close command, So not a lot of change is needed, the same button could be repurposed for both ejecting and closing by just knowing what the last action was, or a new button could be added. I'm not a coder so it could look simple to me but a lot of work to the experts, so excuse my ignorance.

[drxenos]

I just use a tool I write myself. It will display all the drivers in the machine with the disc's label (if present) and provide open/close buttons for each (I tried using just one toggling button but it can be hard knowing what state the drive is in). I wrote it because the machine I use for ripping is actually located in another room (I remote into it), and a lot of times I need to cycle a drive, or I don't want a tool to "react" until I can observe it. It's also nice to be able to eject discs for tools that don't have the ability to do it itself (so, when I go to swap discs, I don't accidentally open the wrong drive. there are 5 of them).

[flojo]

Use a double eject with pauses...

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eject -a /dev/cdrom # turn off auto-eject
eject /dev/cdrom # eject
sleep 5 # sleep
eject /dev/cdrom # eject again to be safe
sleep 5
eject --trayclose # close tray
sleep 5
... # your command to discern a successful load

[dellsam34]

I wish I know how to use that code, but I don't.

[dellsam34]

Because I really want to know why: What is the usecase of this? You have to place the disc in the tray anyway, so you also can either give the tray a slight nudge or press the button on the disc drive to close the tray.

From your wording I take it as you are one of the developers, right?

[Ezatoka]

Nope, I just have seen this request before and I thought, such a request could be just from a single person. But now I see, that more persons seemingly need such.

[dellsam34]

That was a bizarre quote then in post #4, Anyway I'm glad more people are interested in such a feature.