Chestnut's Multimedia Mania/MM_MANIA.ISO/players/acdp260/readme.txt

Text File | 1993-02-09 | 4KB | 64 lines

README.TXT for Audio Compact Disc Player (ACDP) v2.60

Audio Compact Disc Player (ACDP) for Windows is a program that is primarily
a means for playing audio compact discs in Windows.  As a by-product, it
also stores the disc and track titles in a Paradox formatted database.  Track
programming is also available through an easy to use interface.  The program
uses and includes the Borland Windows Custom Control Library, and the Borland
Paradox Engine.  Requires a VGA adapter and Windows 3.1 and a CD-ROM drive!

It is assumed that you already have the CD-ROM installed and properly
configured.  It is also assumed that you have the Windows MCI CD Audio driver
installed and properly working.  If not, this program won't work.  Because
more than one program at a time may use the Paradox Engine, share.exe MUST be
loaded.  If it isn't, and the program is started, the program will let you
know that you need to load it.

ACDP.EXE should be installed in its own directory, as it will generate and
use more files than what is included in the ZIP file.  The files BWCC.DLL
and PXENGWIN.DLL should be copied into the Windows directory.  ACDP will also
create an ACDP.INI file in the Windows directory.  Once the program is copied,
it.  It will tell you that it can't find its database files, and ask if you
would like it to create them.  Answer yes, and the installation is complete.
Two databases will be created - DB1.DB and DB2.DB.  DB1 is the disc database,
and DB2 is the songs database.  These databases are linked, and no records
should be deleted outside of ACDP.  The two files ending in .PX are indexes
for these databases.  If you elect to store your programmed track sequence,
a third database will be created named DB3.DB and DB3.PX.

At this point the program might seem to hang - I have seen this happen only
on drives (and drivers) sold by Sony.  As it also happens with the Media
Player included with Windows, you might have seen this already.  It happens
when there is no disc in the drive (or the "door" is open) upon program
execution.  It will eventually come back and say "There is an undetectable
problem in loading the specified device driver."  If the door is open, it
may not come back at all (so close the door).  Anyway, since the MCI driver
can't talk to the drive, neither can ACDP and it will let you know about
that too.  If you have a Sony drive, the best way to avoid the wait is to
already have a disc in the drive before you start the program.  Once started,
you will be able to change CD's without having to restart the program.
Consider yourself introduced to one of the many MCI bugs that I have run
across in writing this program...

After it's finished generating its files, the next step is to actually enter
a CD into the database.  This is done by first inserting an audio CD into the
drive, and selecting File-Read Disc from the menu.  You will be presented
with a dialog box with a couple of fields to fill out, and a list box with
nothing but track numbers, and track times listed in it.  Type in the artist,
the disc title, and the music style.  After entering the style, press TAB
twice (trust me).  This will take you past the list box, and put you in
another edit box.  This is where you enter the track titles.  The easiest way
to do this is to enter the title, and press ALT-U.  This will update the list
box, move down to the next one, and put the next track's information in the
edit box.  All you have to do is type in the next track title until all of
them are entered.

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For questions, comments, or whatever, I can be reached on
  GEnie @ MAFMDP
  Compuserve @ 70062,116

Enjoy the program, I know I have...