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CD-Audio Help Contents

Using CD-Audio, you can play your audio CDs while working in other applications. Just as a home CD player includes many controls, CD-Audio provides buttons that play, pause, stop, and eject CDs. You can also shuffle and repeat tracks, as well as program the order in which you want tracks played.

CD-Audio also includes features for listening to portions of tracks and recording sound for use on your hard drive.

Help topics for CD-Audio are divided into two categories represented by the following icons:


How To Index
How To...

•	Configure CD-Audio

•	Change CD-Audio views

•	Get started: basic features

•	Program and customize a CD

•	Record and edit sound

•	Use more than one CD-ROM drive

•	Use keyboard shortcuts

•	Exit CD-Audio


Getting Started: CD-Audio Basic Features

Use the...	to...

Play button	start play.

Pause button	pause and resume play.

Stop button	stop play.

Eject button	eject a CD.

Skip Forward button	skip to the next track.

Skip Backward button	skip to the beginning of the current track. If you're less than one second into the current track, CD-Audio skips to the beginning of the previous track.

Scan Forward button	search forward within the current track by 3 second intervals. This button is available only in full window view.

Scan Backward button	search backward within the current track by 3 second intervals. This button is available only in full window view.

Shuffle icon	play tracks in a random order. Alternatively, you can choose Shuffle from the Player menu.

Disk Repeat icon	repeat tracks. Alternatively, you can choose Repeat from the Player menu.

Track Intro's icon	play the first 10 seconds of each track. Alternatively, you can choose Track Intro's from the Player menu.

Play List list box	view the order in which tracks will be played and the time of each track. Any tracks you've excluded from the program list aren't listed. You can start play by selecting a track name.

To automatically start play when you insert a CD

Choose Auto Play from the System menu.

To keep the CD-Audio window on top of other windows

Choose Always on Top from the System menu.


Configuring CD-Audio

You can choose the fonts and colors used in the CD-Audio window. If more than one CD-ROM drive is connected to your system, you can also change the drive from which CDs are played. An option is also provided for keeping the CD-Audio window as the top window.

You can also modify configuration options for CD-Audio. The new settings are used the next time you start CD-Audio.

To change the font used by text in the window

1.	Choose Display Font from the Player menu.

2.	Choose Use Custom Font and the select a font.

Or choose Use Corel CD-Audio LED font to use the default font.

3.	Choose OK.

To change the colors used in the window

1.	Choose Display Color from the Player menu.

2.	Choose a Color Type.

3.	Select a color. Depending on your video configuration, you may want to turn off the Dim color by selecting the same color for both Window Bkgnd and Dim Color.

4.	Choose OK.

To play CDs from another drive

1.	Choose Drive from the Player menu.

2.	Select the drive letter.

3.	Choose OK.

To keep the CD-Audio window on top of other windows

Choose Always on Top from the System menu.

To modify the configuration of CD-Audio

1.	Choose Advanced Options from the Player menu.

2.	Enter the CD-ROM polling interval and Default CD-ROM drive, and mark the CD Database Read Only checkbox.

3.	Choose OK.


CD-ROM polling interval

Indicates the interval, in milliseconds, at which status information is updated and the drive is checked for a CD.


Default CD-ROM drive

Indicates the letter of the drive from which you want to play CDs by default. This option is useful if you have more than one CD-ROM drive connected to your system. By default, the drive associated with the first available drive letter is used.


CD Database Read Only

Indicates whether changes you make, such as defining track and artist titles, will be saved to the database file.


Change CD-Audio Views
Changing CD-Audio Views

CD-Audio provides two window views: full view and remote control. The full window view displays all the features and buttons available with CD-Audio. The remote window view is a small window that includes only the basic CD-Audio features. In both window views, you can show or hide the tool, menu, and status bars.

You can also minimize the window to an icon which displays the number of the current track and the minutes and seconds that the track has been in play.

To change window views

Choose Remote Control from the View menu.

Or choose Full View from the View menu.

Or choose the Minimize button.

To control play from the CD-Audio icon

Double-click the right mouse button to start, pause, and resume play.

Or use the System menu commands to start, pause, and stop play.

Or use the keyboard shortcuts to perform associated actions.

To show or hide the toolbar

Choose Toolbar from the View menu.

To hide the menu bar

Choose Menu bar from the View or System menu.

To show the menu bar

Choose Menu bar from the System menu.

See also

Keyboard Shortcuts


Programming and Customizing a CD

The Program command of the Player menu lets you choose the order in which you want tracks played, exclude tracks from play, and customize the artist, disk, and track titles. Once you've defined artist and disk titles, CD-Audio displays the titles on the player door.

You can save the program information in a database. The next time you use the CD, the information is read from the database.

The CD Database Read Only box in the Advanced Options panel must be unmarked to save information to the database. If the database is read-only, the Program window includes only the track list.

To customize the title of the artist, disk, or selected track

1.	Choose Program from the Player menu.

2.	Highlight the current text in the appropriate box. Tab moves between fields and highlights the text.

3.	Enter the new title.

To exclude a track from play

1.	Choose Program from the Player menu.

2.	Unmark the checkbox displayed beside the track name.

To change the order in which tracks are played

Drag a track name using the left mouse button to its new location in the list.

To change the information displayed for each track

1.	Choose View.

2.	Indicate the type of information you want displayed.

3.	Choose OK.

To reset the tracks to the order in which they're listed on the CD

Choose Reset.

To saved changed program information

Choose Save. If you eject a CD, CD-Audio prompts you to save changed information.


CD-Audio Database
database

The location where customized information about your CDs is stored. You specify whether you want to store information in a database using the CD-Audio advanced options of the Configuration utility.


Recording and Editing Audio Selections

If your drive supports digital sampling, you can record audio from your CDs. The recorded sound is stored as a .WAV file that you can playback on systems with sound capabilities. The README file lists the drives that support digital sampling.

You can edit sound files created using CD-Audio. The editor that CD-Audio launches, by default, is named WinDAT. If you want to use another sound file editor, associate the .WAV extension, using File Manager, with your own editor.

To record a sound file

1.	Choose Select a Sample of a Track from the Sample menu.

Or choose the Select a Sample icon.

2.	Select the portion of a track that you want to record using the scan selection bar pointers. The left pointer marks the start of a selection and the right pointer marks the end of a selection. You can also drag the area marked by the pointers. Once you selected an area, CD-Audio plays only the audio within the markers.

3.	Choose Save Selected Audio to WAV file from the Sample menu.

Or choose the Save Audio icon.

4.	Specify a name and location for the file, choose a sample rate and the bits per sample, and mark whether you want to record for stereo. A message at the bottom of this panel displays the length of the recording and the bytes required to store the file: the better the quality of the recording, the larger the .WAV file becomes.

5.	Choose OK.

To launch WinDAT from CD-Audio

Choose Edit... from the Sample menu.


Sample Rate

The rate at which the amplitude of the analog sound waveform is polled for conversion to digital representation. More frequent sampling provides better sound quality, but requires more space to store the file.


Bits per sample

The number of bits used to store each sample. A 16-bit resolution provides better sound quality than an 8-bit resolution, but requires more space to store the file.


stereo

The left and right speaker channels are addressed separately. Recording in stereo requires twice the number of bytes as mono, but will enhance the sound quality.


Using Multiple CD-ROM Drives

CD-Audio supports multiple CD-ROM drives and includes many features for optimizing use of these drives. For example, you can start CD-Audio once for each CD-ROM drive connected to your system.

In addition, you can define the drive letter that you want CD-Audio to use on startup. By default, CD-Audio uses the first CD-ROM. For example, if drive letters E: and F: are assigned to CD-ROM drives, CD-Audio uses drive E:. You can also temporarily change drives for the current CD-Audio session. When you change drives, the current drive stops play.

To change the default CD-ROM drive

1.	Choose Advanced Options from the Player menu.

2.	Enter the letter of the drive.

3.	Choose OK.

To temporarily change CD-ROM drives

1.	Choose Drive from the Player menu.

2.	Select the drive letter.

3.	Choose OK.


Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use keyboard shortcuts to control play from any of the CD-Audio views and obtain help information. The following keyboard shortcuts are available:

•	Help 	F1

•	Play 	F5
Ctrl-P

•	Pause	F6
Ctrl-U

•	Stop	F7
Ctrl-S

•	Eject	F8
Ctrl-E

•	Next track	Alt-<right arrow>

•	Previous track	Alt-<left arrow>


Exiting CD-Audio

To exit CD-Audio

Select Exit from the Player menu.


Play button


Pause button


Stop button


Eject button


Skip Forward button


Skip Backward button


Scan Forward button


Scan Backward button


Shuffle icon


Disk Repeat icon


Track Intro's icon


Play List list box


Select a Sample icon


Save Audio icon