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- Popup Volume / Track Control
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- If you have enabled the popup volume & track control (Setup-Advanced section),
- you will see a small popup control panel displayed on top of all screens when
- the Audio CD and Media Runners are minimized while playing a track.
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- This control allows you to see the current track number and time (displayed in
- the format selected in the CD-Runner faceplate), and allows you to perform any
- of the track operations available when CD-Runner is not minimized. You may also
- click on the mute button to mute or un-mute the volume, or click on the volume
- button to display or hide the volume control sliders (which allows you to easily
- change volume or balance levels) and the CD-Runner display windows. You may
- move the popup control in the same manner in which you move any of the CD-Runner
- faceplates - simply click and hold the left mouse button and drag it to any
- desired position. If you try to move the control too far off of the screen, it
- will automatically be positionned as close to the edge as possible to prevent
- it from being "cutoff". If you wish to elimate the popup volume control
- and remain playing a CD, simply click the right mouse button on it.
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- When the popup control is open (volume sliders and display windows visible),
- you may click on the hotspots provided to perform additional operations without
- returning to the faceplate. For example, to change the time format, simply
- click on it (just as you could on the faceplate time hotspot) and you will
- toggle through the available time formats. Hotspots throughout CD-Runner are
- always designated by a "hand" mousepointer (e.g. if you see the mousepointer
- change from an arrow to a hand, then you can click on the graphic or text to
- perform a function).
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- You may also minimize the popup control to the Windows "SysTray" by clicking
- on the minimize icon in the upper right corner of the popup. This will eliminate
- the popup display only; if a track is currently playing it will continue to play.
- Once minimized, a small popup icon will appear on the taskbar close to the time
- display. You may left click on this icon to toggle through three options: to
- mute the sound, to un-mute (restore) the sound, and to re-display the popup
- control. You may also right click on this icon to display a menu of additional
- options.
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- Running Audio CDs in the Background
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- You may play Audio CDs in the background as you are using other Windows
- applications if desired. This assumes that your system has adequate memory and
- Windows resources to run CD-Runner and the desired application(s).
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- To run an Audio CD in the background, simply run CD-Runner and play the desired
- Audio CD. Click on the Audio CD Player minimize icon (lower left corner of
- player) to minimize both the Audio CD faceplate and any CD Jacket or wallpaper
- screens. A CD-Runner "Track Description" indicator will appear in the Windows
- taskbar; this will be updated to display the current track description. You may
- now run additional applications while allowing CD-Runner to continue playing
- music.
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- Note that some communications applications which use the Windows timers may
- conflict with CD-Runner since it uses these timers as well. Care should be
- exercised when attempting to run Audio CDs in the background while using a
- communications application for this reason.