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- I. Internet Master CD Library Access
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- II. User Submissions to the Internet Library
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- I. *** Internet Master CD Library Access: ***
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- MyCDplayer (version 2.0.0 and above) has the ability to import title, artist
- and track information from a Master Library on the Internet. This database
- was created for use with the Unix xmcd CD player package by Ti Kan
- (ti@amb.org). If you would like more information on this data base, point
- your browser to:
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- "http://sunsite.unc.edu/~cddb/xmcd/"
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- The major requirement for importing from this Master Library is a Winsock
- connection to the Internet. You MUST be connected to the Internet before
- attempting to import any data. The import feature works from both Win3.x
- and Win95 systems.
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- To enable the import feature, go to "Options" from the "File" menu of the
- main MyCDplayer menu and set "Check Internet Library". When you insert a CD
- into MyCDplayer, the program will first check your local library, then the
- Win95 library (if one is on your system) and then enable you to check the
- Master library. The library system is available from a number of sites
- around the world - select the one nearest you from the menu.
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- There are over 24,000 CDs in the library - new ones are being added daily. We
- have run some tests on the library and found it to be well worth while.
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- Once data has been imported from the library, you may wish to perform some
- maintenance, such as reversing the Artist's name and categorizing CDs with
- MyCDplayers categories. The Master Library categorizes all CDs, but only
- some of them match the many more MyCDplayer categories - if they match, they
- will be entered into the MyCDplayer categories. The Master Library has a
- large "Misc" category - we import them as category "None".
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- We could optionally make the Master Library available locally on the user's
- system. However, this would require the user to download a 5+Meg file from
- the Internet which would occupy 15+Meg on the user's disk. We will consider
- it if enough people request it.
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- Library content on 1 Nov 96:
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- Database entries: 24,351
- by category:
- blues: 614
- classical: 2,017
- country: 695
- data: 98
- folk: 591
- jazz: 1,599
- misc: 3,165
- newage: 1,011
- reggae: 217
- rock: 13,428
- soundtrack: 916
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- II. *** User Submissions to the Internet Library: ***
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- We ask that you only submit CDs that have Title, Artist and all Track Title information keyed in.
- Your extra effort to submit your CDs to the library is very much appreciated.
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- Currently, submissions to the library have to be done via email, one CD at the time.
- We have therefore implemented a scheme that lets you make all submissions offline to a file.
- You should then attach this file (submit.txt) to an email message to us (wjohn@fix.net).
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- To enter CDs to the submit file, insert the CD to be submitted and press "Load CD".
- Next select "Submit to Library" from the file menu of MyCDplayer.
- Repeat above for all CDs you wish to submit.
- Attach file "submit.txt" (which is in your mycd directory) to an email message to us at
- wjohn@fix.net, you may also submit it via a diskette to:
- Wolfgang John 10920 Portal Rd. Atascadero, CA 93422 USA
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