═══ 1. About ═══

                                     PMCD2WAV

 PMCD2WAV is a Program to convert CD Audio Tracks into WAV files 

 written by norbert heller 

 email : heller1@ibm.net 


═══ 2. PMCD2WAV Intro ═══

 A word to Shareware 

 I am not a friend of "crippleware", but i have left out some features for 
 registered users only. 

 The reason is : 

 - i feel that registered users should have an advantage over unregistered 
 users (since they paid money) 
 - i believe that not every user is honest and will register (this shows the DL 
 ratio from CIS and various BBS's where various of my software is contantly 
 DL'd the same number of times, but only around 5 percent ever register, this 
 means 95 percent DL and never register!) (therefore i do not feel bad about 
 leaving out some features..) 

 What is missing for unregistered Users: 

 - You will see an Intro Dialog. 

 - You can only convert 1 audio track per session into a wav file 


═══ 3. Main Window ═══

 To convert an audio cd rom track into wav data do the following : 

 - have an audio cd in your cd rom drive 

 - select the appropriate cd rom drive from the listbox (here drive G) 

 - press <Get Tr> to get the track list from your audio cd rom 

 - select the audio tracks you wish to convert from the list of available 
 tracks 

 - press <Convert> to convert the selected tracks into wav's 


═══ 4. Does my CD Rom support digital readout ? ═══

 If you are not shure, if your cd rom supports digital readout, you can check 
 by doing the following 

 - have an audio cd in your cd rom drive 

 - on notebook page 1 (CD) press <Get Tr> 

 - turn to notebook page 2 (Info) and press <Info> 

 depending on your cd rom, the first line says : 

 YIPPIE!!! Drive Supports reading of CD-DA sectors 

 if your drive supports digital readouts, or 

 OOPS : Drive does not support reading of CD-DA sectors 

 if it doesn't. 


═══ 5. Remarks ═══

Some things that might be interesting : 

- PMCD2WAV does not store ANY data in the os2.ini or os2sys.ini, nor does it 
hide any "secret data" anywhere on your hard disk 
- To completely delete PMCD2WAV, delete the directory where you installed it. 

- The sampled wave data is stored in 44khz / 16bit / stereo, check if your 
soundcard can play this quality