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- INTRODUCING: CDAUDIO.EXE
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- A Compact Disc Audio Player Application
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- The programs only requirements, besides a CD-ROM drive capable of audio
- playback of music discs, is OS/2 2.x and PM.
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- This program does NOT require the Multi Media PM2 to be installed.
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- The program sends IOCTLs to the CD-ROM device driver, both OS/2 2.0 and OS/2
- 2.1 drivers will work with this application.
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- CDAUDIO.EXE is a full 32 bit presentation manager application.
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- A MOUSE IS REQUIRED THERE IS NO KEYBOARD SUPPORT.
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- I figure anybody using OS/2 2.x without a mouse must not have PM loaded, in
- which case cdaudio would not run anyway.
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- Here is a description of each button in cdaudio
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- PLAY Button: |>
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- Pressing play by itself plays track 1 through to the end of the disc.
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- Pressing after a number was entered plays that track number to end of disc.
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- Pressing with memory active plays the play list stored in memory.
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- Pressing with pause active resumes play at the current postition.
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- PAUSE Button: ||
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- Pressing pause will stop audio playback at the current position.
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- STOP Button: [˙]
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- Pressing stop will stop audio playback and seek head to track 1.
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- SKIP UP Button [||>]:
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- Pressing skip up will advance playback to next track.
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- Pressing with memory active will advance playback to next track in list.
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- SKIP DOWN Button [<||]:
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- Pressing skip down will cause playback of previous track.
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- Pressing with memory active will cause playback of previous track in list.
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- SEARCH UP Button [|>|>]:
- SEARCH DOWN Button [<|<|]:
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- Pressing search up will increase current playback by two seconds.
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- Pressing search down will decrease current playback by two seconds.
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- REPEAT Button:
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- Pressing repeat will cause the playback to play disc over again.
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- Pressing with memory active will cause playback to play list again.
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- EJECT Button:
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- Pressing eject will cause CD disc to be ejected from the drive.
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- MEMORY Button:
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- Used in conjunction with the number keypad to enter tracks in memory.
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- Press desired track number on keypad and then pressing memory will store that
- track number in a list to playback when the play key is pressed.
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- RECALL Button:
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- Will show a dialog box and display the playback list stored in memory.
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- CLEAR Button:
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- With a number key active it Will clear a keypad entry
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- With memory active it will display a message box to clear the play list
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- CDAUDIO.EXE will NOT stop playback if the program is closed.
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- If closed when memory was active the disc will play the current track and stop.
- If closed with normal playback active the disc will play to end of the disc.
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- Known Problems:
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- Sometimes pressing the search buttons causes the playback to stop.
- Pressing the play button will resume play at the current position.
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- In OS/2 2.1 the CDROM driver doesn't seem to work correctly if booted
- up with NO CD in the drive.
- Also if booted up with a data disc in the drive sometimes cdaudio does
- not think the drive is ready when switched with a music disc.
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- These problems are being investigated.
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- FUTURE PLANS FOR CDAUDIO:
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- I am planning on putting in support for the user to input disc and track
- titles to store in a file indexed off of UPC codes on the disc, if no UPC code
- is found then it would index off of number of tracks and total time of disc.
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- Also planning on putting in support for display options.
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- Examples: Display total time of disc or track time during playback or both.
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- Any suggestions to improve the look and functionality of cdaudio are welcome.
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- Allen Regal
- 7758 Regal Pine Lane
- Orlando, FL 32810
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