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--mainfunctions--
1.0 OPEN: the open-dialog
1.1 PLAY: play audio files
1.2 PAUSE: pause while playback
1.3 STOP: stop playback
1.4 LOOP: repeated playback of the chosen audio
file
1.5 SHUFFLE: coincidental order while playback
of several audio files
1.6 REDUCED INTERFACE: reduced controls/display
1.7 FULL SCREEN: screen filling display
--list elements--
PLAYLIST:
2.0 What is a playlist?
2.1 How can I add an audio file to the playlist?
2.2 How can I delete an audio file from the
playlist?
2.3 How one can see the next pages of the playlist?
2.4 How one can change the order of the audio
files?
2.5 How can I create a new playlist?
2.6 How can I save a playlist?
2.7 How can I play a playlist?
LIST OF PLAYLISTS:
3.0 What is a list of playlists?
3.1 How can I delete a playlist?
--visualization--
4.0 How can I activate the visualization?
4.1 What can I modify at a visualization?
4.2 Which visualization kinds are there?
--others--
5.0 State display & MP3 tag edit
5.1 Volume & balance
5.2 Minimizing & termination
5.3 Options
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| 1.0 mainfunction: OPEN |
In the open-dialog, the disk drive
can be selected in the top line.
The folder as well as the audio
files in the root folder become
visible if they are available. A
click onto a folder and the program
shows you the folder contents. The
click onto the first line with
the points returns you. If you click
onto an audio file with the
corresponding symbol you have marked
the file, now you can load
the file with the OPEN button. If
there are more than seven folders
or files in the list, you
can leaf through the list using the
ARROW buttons next to the OPEN button.
You can close the
open-dialog with the CANCEL button.
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| 1.1 mainfunction: PLAY |
With the PLAY button in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side,
it is possible to play a loaded
audio file. Loaded means that the
audio file was loaded either with
the OPEN button or by selecting
it in the playlist(see 2.0).
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| 1.2 Hauptfunktion: PAUSE |
With the PAUSE button in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side,
it is possible to stop the playback
of an audio file during the
playing process.
A further click onto the PAUSE button
or the PLAY button
causes the cancellation of the pause.
The playback will be continue.
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| 1.3 mainfunction: STOP |
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With the STOP button in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side,
it is possible to stop the playback
of an audio file .
Unlike the PAUSE button, the STOP
button causes the termination
of the playback. Now the audio file
can only be played again
from the beginning.
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| 1.4 mainfunction: LOOP |
With the LOOP button in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side,
you can repeat the play of a chosen
audio file.
If the LOOP button became activated,
the chosen audio file plays
in the repeated manner until the
LOOP button became
deactivated or the playback get
stopped.
If a playlist is playing, the LOOP
function will play the playlist
continuously, not a single song.
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| 1.5 mainfunction: SHUFFLE |
With the SHUFFLE button in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side,
you can play audio files which are
in the playlist (see 2.0) in a
coincidental order. If the SHUFFLE
button and the PLAY button became
activated, the audio files from
the playlist get played in a coincidental
order.
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| 1.6 mainfunction:
REDUCED INTERFACE |
With the REDUCED INTERFACE button
in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side, you can operate
the program in a simplified and
reduced display. Seen from the left
to the right there is the girder
visualization, the position display,
the LOOP Button(see 1.4), the
down Button(change to previous title,
if a playlist is played), the
PLAY button(see 1.1), the PAUSE
button(see 1.2), the STOP button
(see 1.3), the up Button(change
to next title, if a playlist is played),
the volume control, the enlarge
button (return to normal display) and
the exit button(end program).
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| 1.7 mainfunction:
FULL SCREEN |
The program can be switched to a
screen filling display with the
FULL SCREEN button in the mainfunction-panel,
on the left side.
Through this display, the surface
of the LCARS Audio Players
has a better optical effect.
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| 2.0 What is a playlist? |
A playlist is a list in which you
can comfortably list several audio
files. With it one can summarize
for example some different songs of
one band in a playlist. The annoying
search for audio
files is not needed anymore.
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| 2.1 How can I add an audio
file to the playlist? |
A small field is on the left side
of the list field in every line.
If one click these fields that are
marked with an arrow to the right,
the currently loaded audio file
will be inserted into the corresponding
line of the playlist.
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| 2.2 How can I delete
an audio file from the playlist? |
A small field is on the left side
of the list field in every line.
If one click these fields that are
marked with an arrow to the left,
the currently marked audio file
will be deleted from the playlist.
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| 2.3 How one can
see the next pages of the playlist? |
On the left side over and under
the list field there are two
buttons to leaf through the playlist.
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| 2.4 How one can change
the order of the audio files? |
Centered below the list field there
are two buttons, between the
save button and the play button,
which allows you to displace an
audio file in the playlist. The
desired file only must be selected
in order to be able to displace
it.
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| 2.5 How can I create
a new playlist? |
Centered below the list field there
is the new button which allows
you to create a new playlist. After
a click onto the new button
the program creates an empty playlist.
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| 2.6 How can
I save a playlist? |
Centered below the list field there
is the save button which
allows you to save a playlist that
was made before. After a
click onto the save button you only
have to enter a name for
the new playlist in the text field
on the left side and confirm
the save process with the ok button.
The saved playlist will
appear in the list of playlists(see
3.0).
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| 2.7 How can
I play a playlist? |
Centered below the list field there
is the play button which
allows you to play a playlist. After
the click onto the play
button the audio files in the chosen
playlist become played in
order of priority (unless the SHUFFLE
button was activated/see 1.5).
The playback of the playlist can
be stopped with the stop button,
which is at the same place as the
play button, below the playlist.
With the STOP button of the mainfunction-panel,
one can skip over
a title whilst the playlist is playing.
Besides one, whilst the playlist
is playing, can also select a special
title. The automatism will
continue there.
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| 3.0 What is
a list of playlists? |
The list of playlists is a list
in which every playlist (see 2.0)
is shown. If more than four titles
are in the list of playlists,
one can leaf through the list as
in the playlist(see 2.3).
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| 3.1
How can I delete a playlist? |
Centered below the list of playlists
there is the delete button.
After a click onto the delete button
the selected playlist
immediately get deleted.
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| 4.0
How can I activate the visualization? |
The visualization display automatically
get visible if an audio
file is played(see 1.1). To activate
a visualization you must only
activate the ACTIVE button on the
left side below the visualization
frame.
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| 4.1
What can I modify at a visualization? |
The visualization can be modified
with the buttons below the visualization
frame. Right next to the ACTIVE
button there are three buttons for the color
setting of the visualization, the
RED-Button, the GREEN-Button and the
BLUE-Button. The colors can also
be mixed if one activate several color
buttons simultaneously.
Below the color buttons to the left
there is the on button for activation
of the borders and to the right
there is the attitude of the antialias
effect(higher number means a more
indistinct visualization).
In the third line of the visualization
settings is a FULL SCR button
(screen filling display of the visualization).
FULL SCR
will only work with the Direct X
Visualizations.
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| 4.2
Which visualization kinds are there? |
The selection of the visualization
kind is in the third line of the
visualization settings next to the
FULL SCR button.
One can jump with the arrow buttons,
at the sides of the text field,
to the next one and/or to the previous
visualization.
There are in total nine different
visualization kinds: LINE CHART,
FADING SPECTRE, COMPLETE SPECTRE,
FLOWING OFF X, TORNADO X, TUNNEL X,
RASTER X, FLIGHT X and ROTATING
TUNNEL X. All visualization kinds
with the X require DirectX.
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| 5.0 state
display & MP3 tag edit |
The state display as well as the
data of the MP3 audio files,
are represented on the upper left
in the display. The filename, the
length(length of the audio file),
the position and the filesize belong
to the state display. The interpret,
the year, the title and the album
are belonging to the MP3 tags. If
you click the edit button next to the MP3
tags you can change the data
of the MP3 audio files(MP3 tags).
The appearing save button saves
the changes.
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| 5.1
volume & balance |
The volume control is at the lower
left edge of the program screen. The
volume control influences both the
volume of the playing audio files
and the environment sounds(see 5.3).
Besides the volume control
of the LCARS Audio Players will
not influence Windows volume controls.
The BALANCE setting is below the
VOLUME CONTROL. The volume can be
distributed uniformly over both
channels with the uniform button to the
left.
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| 5.2
minimizing & termination |
The MINIMIZE button and the EXIT
button are on the lower right at
the edge of the program screen.
The program screen is removed with
the MINIMIZE button, only in the
task bar you can see a box with
the title audio interface. One ends
the program with the EXIT button.
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| 5.3 options |
The two alternation buttons, characterized
with arrows, are used
for switching on and off an option
and/or tuning a particular
value. In order to adjust a specific
option you must select the
corresponding option line.
The FIRST option, show startup sequence
screen, mean that the
start sequence is displayed, if
the option is activated.
The SECOND option, start in FULL
SCREEN mode, has in the activated
state the same effect as the FULL-SCREEN-Button(see
1.7) in the
mainfunction-panel on the left side,
the program is brought into
a screen filling display at the
start of the program.
The THIRD option, command line files
under 100KB in REDUCED INTERFACE,
mean that all audio files which
are loaded through a click into the
LCARS audio player and which are
under 100KB largely are be played
in the Reduced interface (see 1.6).
The FOURTH option, environment sounds,
cause in the activated state
that typical Star Trek sounds
are audible while a button is in use.
With the FIFTH option, colorskins:
~, can one change the kind of the
interface, for example you can change
to the klingon interface.
The SIXTH option, play with 44Khz
(turn off on slower PCs), restart,
serves for the attitude of the playback
frequency. Is that OPTION
deactivated becomes every file played
with at most 22Khz. With this
option it is possible also to use
the PLAYER on slower computers. The
program must be restarted after
this option became activated to take
an effect.
The SEVENTH option, play with 16Bit
(turn off on slower PCs), restart,
serves for the attitude of the playback
quality. Is that OPTION
deactivated becomes every file played
with at most 8Bit. With this
option it is possible also to use
the PLAYER on slower computers.
The program must be restarted after
this option became activated to
take an effect.
With the EIGHTH option, x.y seconds
player BUFFER size, one controls
the length of the buffer in seconds.
At the most you can set 2 seconds
and at minimum you can set 0,3 seconds.
All the more larger your main
memory is all the more higher you
can adjust this value. This system
makes it possible in spite of short
system overloads, for example while
programs start, to playback a title
without a break.
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