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Settings

Player

• Check for updates to QCD

• Set per-user settings if more than one user will be using the same install of QCD

• Set QCD priority relative to other applications

Network

• Set up connection settings, such as LAN connections and proxy settings

Language & Fonts

• Set the language to use for the QCD user interface (windows and messages)

• Set the font to use for text display if you don't want to use the font built into the skin (recommended if you play international CDs or music files that use non-western characters).

File Associations

• Assign QCD as the default application to use to open certain file formats

Icons

• Create desktop or Quicklaunch Icons

• Customize Icons that are used by QCD

Tray Icon

• Controls the display of the QCD icon in the Windows system tray (icons by clock in taskbar)

• Set up the QCD functions launched with different mouse clicks (double-click, right-click, etc.) on the icon in the system tray

Media Loading

• Control how QCD loads audio files into the playlist

• Set up a folder to use as a "watched folder" :audio files added or removed from that folder are automatically updated in the playlist.

Gracenote CDDB

• Control how QCD performs lookups using the Gracenote CDDB Service.

For more information, see Using the CDDB Music Recognition Service

CDDB Control

• Displays status and settings for the Gracenote CDDB service, which is what provides the Artist and Title information to QCD

• Set folder where CDDB control will store its cached information

• Set the preferred language to use for information downloaded from the CDDB service

Multimedia Keyboards

• Support for keyboards that have media player control.

Display

• Control how QCD displays controls and text

• Control the behavior of the playback progress slider

• Controls when the music browser appears

• Specify what information (Album, Artist, etc.) appears on the QCD icon in the taskbar

Playlists

• Control how QCD maintains the current playlist

• Set up a folder to use as a "Playlist folder" :playlists found under this folder will be listed in the Load Playlist menu.

Playback

• Control how QCD plays tracks in the playlist

QuickTrack

• Set up how the QuickTrack menu behaves.  (You bring up the QuickTrack menu by right-clicking on the track information area)

Visual Effects

• Control the behavior of visualization plug-ins, such as how much computation priority to allocate to displaying visualizations, or how often the visualizations cycle

• Set up fullscreen visual effects resolution

Encode Format

• Select an Encoding format

Output Files

• Set up encoded filenames and locations

Encoder Options

• Control QCD's behavoir when encoding completes

• Control DSP settings during encode

HotKeys

• Set up system-wide keyboard shortcuts for controlling QCD from other applications

Timer

• Set up QCD to perform actions at specified times

Watch Folders

• Specify folders for QCD to monitor for changes and update the playlist accordingly

Plug-ins

Settings

• Control advanced settings for QCD plug-ins, such as the behavior of the plug-in cache

• Load any new plug-ins you have installed without restarting QCD

Input

• Select which input plug-ins QCD loads for reading different types of media

• Configure any special settings are available for each input plug-in

• Change the order in which the input plug-ins are loaded

Playback

• Select which playback plug-in QCD uses for playing audio

• Configure any special settings are available for each playback plug-in

Encoders

• Select which encoding plug-ins QCD uses for writing different types of media files

• Configure any special settings are available for each output plug-in

Visuals

• Select which visual plug-ins QCD loads for generating animated visual effects

• Configure any special settings are available for each visual plug-in

• Start or stop the display of a certain visualization (to see what it is)

For more information, see Working with Visual Effects

DSP

• Select which DSP (digital sound processor) plug-ins QCD loads for special sound effects (if you have any DSP plug-ins installed)

• Configure any special settings are available for each DSP plug-in

Libraries

• Select which library plug-ins QCD uses for retrieving information about the loaded music or for editing music information

• Configure any special settings are available for each library plug-in

• Change the order in which the library plug-ins are used

Playlists

• Select and configure Playlist Plug-ins, which support reading and writing various playlist file formats

General

• Select other plug-ins that do not fall into the above categories

• Configure any special settings are available for each plug-in

Skins

Settings

• Set the folder to use for storing skins

• Control how and when QCD automatically changes the displayed skin

• Control skin effects and positioning

For more information, see Working with Skins

Skin Layouts

• Add and remove Layouts for skins. Layouts control how each skin mode is set up

Installed Skins

• Get more information about individual skins, skin families, or skin kids

• Examine the different modes of the selected skin family

• Delete skins you don't want

Download Skins

• Get the latest list of available skins for QCD

• Preview skins

• Download and install skins