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I give my permission to distribution of the RexxCD archive on AmiNet, the AmiNet CD's, and Fish CD's. Others may distribute the whole unaltered archive only if there is no money charged except for media cost.
I purchased a Toshiba 5301 QuadSpeed SCSI CD drive in June '95. I didn't have a CD player previously, so this buy was a kind of two-in-one for me: Audio and Multimedia (hahahaarfh!)
Shortly after that, I found a filesystem that sufficed, but the audio players was not flexible enough. I wanted ARexx.
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To be honest, I didn't have to work that hard with it, so the hurt-puppy-look isn't necessary. I have made an ARexx parser previously. And with the help of the sources from SCSIUtil and MultiCDPlayer, the mysteries of SCSI were unveiled.
I'm rather proud of the ARexx code, it's so ...beautiful. Especially the GETATTR / SETATTR (and settings) code. So when I'm finished polishing it, I will release the source.
RexxCD is an ARexx Audio CD Player host.
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Play the whole CD over and over
Play the current track over and over
Play the whole CD once
There are lyrics for this track
There are no lyrics for this trackThe settings file defaults to "PROGDIR:RexxCD.Settings". This file is read on startup, before the "REXX:Startup_RexxCD.rexx" is executed. The settings file is in plain ASCII. It's okay to alter it manually, but try to keep the structure the same.
Here's an example anyway:APPLICATION.SCREEN=Workbench SETTINGS.REPEAT=1 SETTINGS.CREATEICONS=42 SETTINGS.ALLOWMACROS=0 SETTINGS.TOCPATH=u:audio/Discs BUTTON.1= BUTTON.2= BUTTON.3= BUTTON.4= BUTTON.5= BUTTON.6= BUTTON.7= DEVICE.NAME=z3scsi.device DEVICE.UNIT=0 FONT.TEXTFONT.NAME=times.font FONT.TEXTFONT.SIZE=15 FONT.DIGITFONT.NAME=courier.font FONT.DIGITFONT.SIZE=13 FONT.LYRICFONT.NAME=Garamond.font FONT.LYRICFONT.SIZE=32 WINDOW.MAIN.LEFT=338 WINDOW.MAIN.TOP=337 WINDOW.MAIN.WIDTH=272 WINDOW.MAIN.HEIGHT=104 WINDOW.MAIN.TITLE=ProRexxCD v1.1 WINDOW.MAIN.OPEN=1 WINDOW.LYRICS.LEFT=0 WINDOW.LYRICS.TOP=462 WINDOW.LYRICS.WIDTH=720 WINDOW.LYRICS.HEIGHT=62 WINDOW.LYRICS.TITLE=Lyrics Window WINDOW.LYRICS.OPEN=1
Unfortunately, Audio CD's does not contain the names on titles or artists, not even the name of the CD itself.
However, it is possible to retrieve an unique ID for every CD. RexxCD searches the "SETTINGS.TOCPATH" for a file with the name contained in the attribute "DISC.ID", or "DISC.BARCODE"
About "DISC.BARCODE": Some discs provide the EAN barcode information (those black stripes with numbers underneath) for the disc. If RexxCD can't find the "DISC.ID" file, it tries with "DISC.BARCODE".
The TOC file is an plain text file with the same format as the program MultiCDPlayer uses. With some extra features added, of course.
Like this:Artist CD Title Name of track 1 Name of track 2 Name of track 3 ... Name of track n
On some CD's all tracks are not performed by the same artist, to solve this, write the name of the track, a backslash "\" and the name of the artist. This is a feature of RexxCD, but other programs should not bug out on it.
Like this:Ice Machine\S.P.O.C.K
#{Track}
{Minute}:{Seconds}.{Tenths} {Text}
{Minute}:{Seconds}.{Tenths} {Text}
...
If you want to change the text attributes, these escape sequences are available:
\0 -Colour 0 (Background, invisible) \1 -Colour 1 (Black) \2 -Colour 2 (White, default) \3 -Colour 3 (Blue) \4 -Colour 4 \5 -Colour 5 \6 -Colour 6 \7 -Colour 7 \8 -Colour 8 \9 -Colour 9 \b -Bold (Bold) \i -Italics (Italics) \u -Underline (Underline) \\ -Backslash (\) \a -Arexx macro The rest of the line is sent to ARexx.
Excerpt from a TOC file:
Bj�rk Debut Human Behaviour Crying Venus as a Boy There's More To Life Than This Like Someone In Love Big Time Sensuality One Day Aeroplane Come To Me Violently Happy The Anchor Song Play Dead #1 00:00 00:08.6 If you ever get close to a human 00:13.0 and human behaviour 00:17.4 be ready, be ready to get confused 00:21.1 00:26.0 there's definitely no logic 00:30.4 to human behaviour 00:35.0 but yet so irresitible 00:39.0 00:45.7 and there's no map 00:50.0 01:01.0 they're terribly moody 01:06.0 a human behaviour 01:10.2 then all of a sudden turn happy 01:14.6 01:18.8 but, oh, to get involved in the exchange 01:23.4 of human emotions 01:27.6 is ever so satisfying 01:31.8 01:37.9 and there's no map 01:42.4 02:05.2 \2human behaviour 02:09.6 \1human behaviour 02:14.0 \2human behaviour 02:18.4 \1human behaviour 02:22.4 and there's no map 02:27.0 and a compass wouldn't help at all 02:31.2 02:40.0 human behaviour 02:55.4 there's definitely no logic 02:59.6 human 03:12.5 03:48.1 there's definitely no logic 03:52.2 human 04:07.7
RexxCD recognizes and does some compatibility fixes for the old TOSHIBA XM drive version 1971; vendor specific string '07/16/91':
"DRIVE.BPS" will be set to 300
"DRIVE.STEREO" will be set to 0
This fixes the track timer and lyrics syncronization. The volume control for this drive is global for the stereo pairs, and both controls must be set to the same value.
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The 6 spin ACER CD-767E/O version 1.5 ATAPI drive does not function with RexxCD,
you can only eject the caddie.
According to Ingemar Nilsson.
I am studying ATAPI standard documents to see if there are a solution to this.
___If you have a drive that does not function properly with RexxCD, please tell me. And please supply all values from the stem "DRIVE". You can use the Arexx script "rexx/debug.rexx", it saves all important parameters to a file.
Urban Lindeskog
Folkungagatan 5 / 4 tr
S-411 02 Gothenburg
SWEDEN