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- CDPlayer v2.0 Copyright 1995 by Xes·s M.L≤pez Alvarez
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-
- Abstract:
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- This is a music-CD player, using your computer's CD-Rom
- driver. It can store data about the CD's name, author,
- and performers, alongside with information about each
- track.
-
- Installation:
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- - Make a directory, and put in it the files
- 'cdplayer.exe' and 'cddata.dat'
- - Make sure that 'cddata.dat' has read-write permission.
- - From windows, add a link to cdplayer.exe, Set up the
- working directory to the directory previously created.
-
- Main Features:
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- - Its nice graphical interface, with resembles an Hi-Fi
- Set CD Player.
- - Its ease of use. It has no barroque and unuseful
- controls disturbing.
- - 1 button for each song.
- + Accelerators for the first ten songs.
- + A Hint in each button, showing the track name
- of that button.
- - Slide-bar for the current song.
- - Next-track / previous-track buttons
- - Right-button popup menu, with a HIERARCHICAL list of
- songs.
- + This is very useful for classic music CDs.
- It's very common to find songs with more
- than on track (i.e. XVI Sonata Haydn, has
- Allegro, Adagio and Finale)
- + If you put this information in the
- Song/Section fields of each song, when you
- press the right button, tracks with the same
- Song name appear in one hierarchical submenu.
- It's a very logical interface.
- - Stay-on-top option.
-
- Keyboard Control:
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- - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 Goto the song with that number
- (0 means 10)
- - "-" , "+" Previous/Next Track.
- - e, E Eject Disk
- - p, P Play
- - s, S Stop
-
- Mouse Control:
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- - Left button: As Usual.
- - Right button: Popup menu with list of songs.
- Tracks with the same song name
- form a hierarchical submenu.
- - Note the yellow tags that show useful information,
- like the song name.
-
- To Register:
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- - See instructions in the program.
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