1. Designed for System Seven and systems with Color!
2. Eject, Stop, Play, Pause, Previous, Next, and Scan functions.
3. NO INIT’s or CDEV's
4. Small Convenient Display.
5. You can quit the app without interrupting the play.
6. Wrap around direction buttons.
7. Only uses <256 of RAM, you can quit if you need the memory!
8. Runs in background with NO noticeable decrease in system performance.
9. Auto Start Play when Audio CD is mounted.†
10. Auto repeats CD†
11. Works with screen savers.
12. 32 bit Clean.
† if application is running in background.
Shareware Fees
I put a lot of work into this one, it is very polished. This is commercial grade software. I really love to develop Macintosh software. Over the years I have built up a huge Library of code and I'm at a point where I can hammer out 1 decent shareware app a month. If you send me your name and address I will put you in my data base and quarterly you will be sent my latest and greatest disk. I have been warned from a
fellow software engineer, that NOBODY! ever sends their shareware fees in . I really like to prove this gut wrong, so please help. I have disabled the scan features until I
receive the first 5 shareware fees.
Installation
You need to have installed the Foreign File Access and your CD ROM driver. You do not need the CD Remote INIT or the Remote player for CARP to work. For Best Results simply make an alias of the CARP icon, put it in the "Startup Items" folder of your system folder. Reboot and CARP is ready. If you don’t want the little control panel around you can hide the window (command “T”).
Usage
It’s really straight forward, there is online help, here are several notes:
1. Clicking in the LCD Window shows total tracks.
2. Option Click on Arrows Scans Forward and back respectively .
3. Display's "--" when no Audio CD currently mounted.
4. When a track is playing, clicking the play button starts that track over.
5. If the disc is playing and you are on track one clicking the “<“ previous button will
“wrap around” to the last track, etc...
6. CARP remembers the position of the panel even after you quit, the only rule is that if
any part of the panel hangs off the edge of your screen bounds, when you re-start
CARP it will come up in the default position (upper left corner).
Command - T Toggles Show/Hide Window
Command - Q Quit
Why was this done?
I do not like the monochrome DA/mandatory INIT solution provided by Apple. CD remote is neat because you can type the names of the CD’s and there track titles. But who wants to sit there and type all of it in? So I downloaded 2 different Audio CD Players from America Online, the first one crashed and the second was not finished yet. A friend of mine asked me if I knew of a player interface? Well all I need is a demand of 2 or more and it's to the compiler!
Disclaimer
The author takes absolutely NO responsibility for this software. If you try to blame this software for Data Loss you are displaying a complete lack of understanding of rudimentary computer fundamentals and grasping at straws, most likely you have a history of annoying tech support divisions of software vendors around the country and consequently have your name on dart boards in business parks everywhere! Get a CLUE or sell your Mac and buy a PC clone! There is NO warranty!
