KMid 1.0 . Antonio Larrosa Jimenez (antlarr@arrakis.es) . 22-6-98 . Malaga (Spain)


5. Finally

5.1. Some tips and tricks

I will include some tips so that you can take fully advantage from all the features of KMid :
Opening files
I always keep a KDE desktop with a KFM window in my root midi directory, and KMid in this desktop (if playing midi file) or sticky (if playing karaoke :-)) this way, when the active collection finishes, or I want to play some file, I just go to the KFM window, select the desired files and make drag & drop to the KMid's window .
Suppose that you want to play some midi files, but don't want to add them to any collection, well, just turn off the 'AutoAdd to Collection' option in the 'Collections' menu, and open the files, they will be added to the Temporary Collection .
Another method to create a new Collection
Suppose that you have midi files A.mid , B.mid and C.mid . At first you only want to play the first midi file, so you unselect 'AutoAdd' and open A.mid . You get then a Temporary Collection with only one midi file .
Then you decide to play also B and C, and make a collection with all them, what do you do ?
Easy, select 'AutoAdd' and open B.mid and C.mid (by any of the multiple methods), they will be automatically added to the Temporary Collection, that will then have A.mid, B.mid and C.mid . At this point, you can open the 'Organize Collections' dialog, select the Temporary Collection, and click on the 'Copy' button, enter the name of the new collection, and you are done . You already have a new collection, which holds the A,B and C midi files, and that is not deleted when you close KMid .

5.2. Hall of KMid's friends

Until now, only one person has sent me a midi file, he is Ola Sigurdson .

5.3. About the author

KMid has been made by Antonio Larrosa Jimenez, in Malaga (Spain) . I am a student of Mathematics at the University of Malaga, I am currently doing the second course, and orienting to the theorical side of Mathematics as well as the practical/physics side . My hobbies include : Programming, collecting midi files, playing music and proving theorems :-) .
In my University, students must take subjects from other careers, and so I'm also becoming interested in Computer Aided Diagnostics, but I don't know too much about it at this time .

If you want to know where to download midi/karaoke files, you have any question, a bug to report, an idea or a feature you'd like to see in KMid or just want to make me happy, feel free to send me an email to : antlarr@arrakis.es
or write to me by snail-mail at :
Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
Rio Arnoya 10 5B
Malaga (Spain)
You will really make me happy if you send me a postcard from where you live, or a midi/karaoke file from a local music group of your country . Everyone who sends me a postcard or a midi file will have his/her name in the Hall of KMid's friends of this file (provided they don't oppose to this) . Please contact me before sending me any midi files because I may have it already .

I would like thanks the following persons their help in developing KMid:
Paul J. Leonard - Support for AWE cards
Sebestyen Zoltan - FreeBSD port and AWE testing
Christian Esken - For Answering my (silly) questions in the kde-devel ml
Stephan Kulow - Configure scripts and help with automake and CVS
Jaroslav Kysela - Helped me in doing the Linux Ultrasound Project driver support
Adrian Knoth - For giving me good news and many suggestions
Kevin Street - Patch to support FreeBSD 3.0
Thanks go also to Jose Luis Sanchez for his testing of GUS support, Ignacio Garcia for testing the AWE support, Ola Sigurdson, Marc Diefenbruch, Peter Gritsch, Magnus Pfeffer, Urko Lusa, Peter-Paul Witta, Thorsten Westheider, Ulrich Cordes and everyone that sent me a patch, bug report or just an email to give me encouragement.
And of course to all the fabulous musicians over the net that keep giving us those wonderful midi and karaoke files.


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