| This section allows you to select what elements are displayed on the console. You can also toggle thru these modes by double clicking on a clear part of the console. |
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| This section allows you to select the colors used to display various parts of Carlanthano, including as the playlist, display, and lyrics window. |
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| This section allows you to select the fonts used to display the specified parts of Carlanthano. |
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| This section controls how Carlanthano guesses the file title from the filename. If you have a file named "song.remix.mp3", and you choose to stop at the first dot, then the title will become "song". If you choose last dot, then the title will become "song.remix". |
| This section controls how Carlanthano guesses the lyrics filename. If you have a file named "song.mp3", and put the extension as "txt", then the lyrics filename will be set to "song.txt". |
| This section controls how Carlanthano guesses the artist and album names from the folder the file is contained in. The name of the containing folder can be used as either the artist or album. Alternatively, it can be used as the album name, and its containing folder will be used as the artist name. |
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| Turn this option off if you do not wish Carlanthano to read ID3 tags from your files. |
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| EasyMove | This allows you to move Carlanthano windows by dragging on any part of its window. |
| Snap to screen | If enabled, when any window is near or off the edge of the screen, the window will align to the edge of the screen. This option can only be enabled if EasyMove is selected. You can still move a window off the edge of the screen by using the title bar. |
| Snap to screen activation | This determines the number of pixels from the edge of a screen that snap to screen activates. The default value is 12. |
| This option will keep Carlanthano windows above all other normal windows. This is useful if you wish to have Carlanthano visible on your screen at all times. |
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| Autosave album | If selected, Carlanthano will automatically save any changes to the album when you close it. |
| Allow duplicate listings | If selected, Carlanthano will allow multiple listings of the same file to be added to the playlist. Otherwise, whenever a file is added to the playlist, Carlanthano will check whether it already exists in the playlist. |
| Remove duplicates when loading | If selected, Carlanthano will search for and remove multiple listings of the same file in an album when it is loaded. Deselect this to make albums load more quickly. |
| Start playing automatically | If selected, Carlanthano will automatically start playing a file whenever an album is loaded. |
| If this is selected, Carlanthano automatically save new albums as Carlan.def in Carlanthano's folder. Be warned, however, that previous versions will be overwritten each time without confirmation. If Autosave album is not selected, Carlanthano will still ask you whether you wish to save the album. |
| This is mainly used if you often play some files in Carlanthano without wanting to save the album specifically. |
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| This section allows you to control whether Carlanthano should automatically try to determine whether the lyrics file exists, and what to do in each case. |
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| This section allows you to control what Carlanthano does when there is a problem trying to play a file. If you select one of the bottom two options, Carlanthano will still notify you if 10 consecutive files could not be played. |
| This section allows you to choose the number of seconds that file playback should overlap. If this is set to 5, then 5 seconds before the currently playing file finishes, the next file will try to play, allowing you to eliminate any pauses between file playback. |
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| You can allow files to play more than once in shuffle mode. If you do this, then a file will not have to wait for the whole round to finish before it has a chance to play again. If this is set to 1, then a round is playing each file in the playlist once. |
| To allow only your favorite files to play more times per round than others, you can use the favorites setting in the Song Information section. |
| You may want to make sure that files do not play too soon again after it has played once. This section allows you to specify how many files must be played before a file is repeated. |
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| This section allows you to set up playback in categories mode. Name the categories anything you like, and then enter how many times you want each category to play in a round in the frequency column. |
| For example, you may wish to set up categories according to fast and slow songs, and have one fast song play for every three slow songs. To do that, you would set 1 for the frequency for the fast songs, and 3 for the frequency for the slow songs. |
| To allow only your favorite files to play more times per round than others, you can use the favorites setting in the Song Information section. |
| You assign categories to songs in the Song Information section. |
| Select this option to use the custom mix to control categories playback instead of the frequencies above. Custom mix allows you to control exactly when each category is played. |
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| Music scan plays a small portion of each song before moving onto the next. This allows you to get a brief overview of each song in an album. |
| This section allows you to choose how many seconds are played before moving on to the next file. |
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| This section allows you to specify a title to be printed at the top of each page. This can be more than one line long. To add a tab, press Ctrl-Tab. To add a new line, press Ctrl-Enter. |
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| This section allows you to select the colors used for printing. |
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| This section allows you to select the fonts used for printing. |
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| File types | This section allows you to choose which file extensions you wish to associate with Carlanthano. |
| This section allows you to specify which icons are used to represent Carlanthano albums and files in Windows. |
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| This section allows you to choose how many recent files are remembered and displayed in the recent files menu. |
| If selected, the options in the options page will be saved when you exit Carlanthano. |
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