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- CD Professional
- From
- Southwest Software Associates
- Copyright © 1994, All Rights Reserved
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- REGISTRATION
- This software is distributed as "Shareware". As such, you are free to use it to
- determine if it meets your needs before you are required to pay for it. You are
- free to evaluate this software for a 15 day period. If, after that time, you
- determine that you wish to continue to use it, you are required to register your
- copy for a fee of $10.
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- To register, send a check or money order made payable to: Don Fordham.
- Mail, along with your name, address and telephone number to:
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- Southwest Software Associates
- 6888 Granero Drive
- El Paso, Texas
- 79912
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- Feel free to distribute this program provided that you include all files without
- modification including this readme file. Above all, ENJOY IT!
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- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
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- CD Professional is designed to play Audio CD's through your computer's CD
- Player and sound card. It provides the appearance of a rack mounted piece of
- audio equipment along with the functionality of the controls normally found on
- audio CD players.
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- CD Professional also provides database functions for your CD collection. It
- allows you to store the Name, Artist and Track Contents for each CD. Once the
- data has been entered for any CD, CD Professional will automatically recognize
- it each time it is inserted into the CD Drive. The database feature allows you to
- browse through your collection either by Artist or by Title and, optionally,
- attaches 80 pixel by 80 pixel bitmaps to its display.
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- CD Professional is distributed as SHAREWARE. You are authorized to use it for
- a reasonable period of time to determine its suitability, after which you must
- register it and pay the nominal fee of $10. Registration will assure continued
- support of the program and notification of future
- upgrades.
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- PROGRAM INSTALLATION
- The program is distributed along with an "install" program. The install program
- will prompt you for an install directory into which it will place all required files to
- run CD Professional. It is recommended that you accept the default directory
- suggested during the install process. Install will also automatically create a
- "cd.ini" file in your Windows directory. This file will contain the program options
- you select as well as the database information you enter for your CD Catalog.
- Protect and backup the cd.ini file as you would any other database information in
- your computer.
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- To run CD Professional's install program, use Windows' Program Manager;
- select FILE | Run from Program Manager's menu and enter the path where the
- downloaded CD Professional files are currently located along with the file name
- INSTALL.EXE. The install program will place all required files into a directory
- (the default is C:\CDPRO) and will create CD.INI in your Windows directory.
- The install program will then create a CD Professional Program Group and insert
- two icons, one for CD Professional and one for a Windows Write version of this
- program.
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- Once the install program has created its own directory and program group and
- you has tested to assure the program runs correctly, you may delete all the CD
- Professional files in your download directory.
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- ON LINE HELP
- There is extensive on line help available within the program. It is suggested that
- you select the QUICK START option in the HELP MENU to get started as quickly
- as possible.
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- SAMPLE CATALOG AND BITMAPS
- CD Professional is distributed along with sample catalog entries and bitmaps.
- These will appear on the Browse by Artist and Browse by Title dialog boxes.
- This information is distributed to demonstrate the bitmap capability of CD
- Professional's database. These entries can be easily deleted through the Delete
- function of the browse dialogs.
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- In order to use your own bitmaps with you CD catalog, they must be in .BMP
- format at a size of approximately 80pixels by 80pixels. Any larger and they will
- be cropped; any smaller and they will have a white border on one side. Scanned
- images with 256 colors work best.
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- You will notice that for any image without a bitmap, CD Professional defaults to
- display the Southwest Software Associates logo. Use care not to delete this
- bitmap from your CD Professional directory or an error message will occur each
- time a browse operation is attempted. The default bitmap can be replaced
- simply by renaming an 80 by 80 pixel bitmap file of your choice to "SSA.BMP"
- and placing it in the CD Professional directory.
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- UPGRADES
- Comments and recommendations for future upgrades are welcomed from
- registered users. Send your comments to the same address as the registration
- address above.
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- ENJOY THE PROGRAM!
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- Don Fordham
- Southwest Software Associates
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