KMid 1.2 . Antonio Larrosa Jimenez (antlarr@arrakis.es) . 14-9-98 . Malaga (Spain)


2. General Usage

This section describes the usage of the most used functions of KMid

2.1. Opening songs

You can open a song by some different ways. First, you can select 'Open...' from the 'File' menu, then you are presented with a standard open dialog, with which you can select the song you wish to open.
You can drag a file from a KFM window and drop it in the KMid window . You can also drag & drop multiple songs at the same time .
If you specify a song in the command line when running KMid, it will also be opened .
And the last way is by selecting the song from the list of songs of the active collecion .

2.2. Playing songs

To play a song, first open it, and then press on the Play button of the toolbar , or the 'Play' entry of the 'Song' menu, or just press the Space key . Note that when you open a file using drag & drop, KMid will start playing it automatically (if you drop more than 1 file, they will be added to a collection and they will be played sequencially) .
Once KMid is playing a song, you can move the time slider, by pressing with the middle mouse button, to play from a specified second.
The Space key is used for two things, when music is playing, and you press the Space key, it will act as when you press on the pause button or the 'Pause' entry of the 'Song' menu, that is, it will pause music . If you press the Space key when no music is being played, it will play it.

2.3. Seeing lyrics

There are two methods to store lyrics in a song, by using "Text events" or "Lyrics events", some songs use the first, some the second, some use both of them, and some don't include lyrics :-) . KMid lets you choose which events to display, and even better, it has an option to automagically select the type of events that a song uses, so that you don't have to change the type manually . That way, if you activate the 'Automatic Text chooser' entry of the 'Options' menu the karaoke text will be automatically selected, but you can still change them if you preffer to see the other type .
To select which type to see, you can use the appropiate entries of the 'Options' menu, or just press the '1' and '2' keys of your keyboard to see the "Text events" or "Lyrics events" .


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