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PLAYER : A utility for playing ROL music files under Windows 3.0
(C) 1991 Monty Schmidt, David Giller
Player allows you to queue multiple songs for playing through your Adlib
Music card of your Creative Labs Soundblaster card under Windows 3.0.
Player plays standard ROL music files in the background so that you may play
music in the background while continuing to use Windows 3.0 programs.
ROL files are files in a format created by Adlib Inc. for storing song
information. These files may be found on various online services such as
GEnie and Compuserve and are available on many of the music support BBS's
around the world. We have included a number of ROL files with this set of
files so that you may get started playing music right from the start.
PLAYER Instructions:
File Menu-
Open Instrument Bank File.
This option allows you to specify a new Adlib Instrument Bank file (.BNK).
Each bank file holds the names of instruments and the corresponding parameters
needed to create the timbre of that instrument. When playing a ROL file the
ROL file contains the names of instruments needed and these must be found in a
corresponding BNK file. This cuts down on the size of ROL files by removing
the need for timbre data in the file. Timbre is what defines the way a certain
instrument sounds. We have include a set of instruments in the file BNK835.BNK
which holds most of the instruments needed for almost all the ROL files we have
seen.
FM Sound Driver Version.
This option will tell you what the version is of the current FM driver installed
in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
Controls-
Pause/Continue.
Clicking on the Pause control will cancel the current song playing, and halt
the playing of the rest songs in the queue until the Continue button is clicked.
The Pause button changes to Continue when clicked.
Next Song.
The Next Song button ends the song that is currently playing, and begins the
next queued song.
Queueing Songs.
To add a song to the play queue you may either double click on a song in the
file list box or select the song in the file list box and then click the Queue
button. You may also type the path and name of the ROL file you wish to play
in the edit box named "Song To Queue". The song will be added before the
current song highlighted in the Queue list box. If you wish to add to the end
of the list simply highlight the word "End" in the list box. If you wish to
remove a song from the queue merely select it in the "Songs Queued for Playing"
list box and then click on "UnQueue".