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Notes to Mpeg Realtime Audio Player 1.7b4
This is a public beta version. Please report any bug/problems etc.
• WARNING WARNING WARNING
This application might crash your Macintosh at any time. Therefore use
it with caution, especially when used in background save your foreground
work as often as possible.
• Important Notes:
- THE PLAYER REQUIRES A POWERMACINTOSH!!!
- The player is incompatible with Virtual Memory,
and may play poorly with Ram Doubler
- It probably does not work on the 5200/6200
- On low-end PPCs, Sound Manager 3.1 is highly recommended
- Shuffle does not work like normal CD players, it just picks a random
songs, so a song might be picked twice in a row
- The player requires Sound Double Buffer Hardware, if it is not
available on your Macintosh the player won't work
- Sound output should be set to 44Khz/16bit, else it might not play well
- Certain applications (like ResEdit) seem to disturb the filemanager.
If they are kept open in the background, playback may suddenly stop.
(no crash though...)
- Modern Memory Manager needs to be turned on
- Time values only work correctly with 44kHz files
- On slow machines, don't set the speed to maximum
- MacOS 8 is recommended, the Appearance extension is required on 7.5x
• Formats supported
All Layer I, II and III formats are supported. If you have
problems with a specific file, please contact me!
• Drag&Drop
You can drag files either into the list or directly onto the play-button
for immediate playback. Only files of type 'MPEG' are accepted.
If you drag files directly onto the application icon, all files are
accepted that have an ending .mpg or .mp2.
• Info Dialog
The info dialog displays all information that are available in a MPEG
Audio stream. You can also enter title/artist information which will
be stored in a STR# resource within the MPEG file. If the file is
locked or on a write-protected volume, the information won't be
saved.
• Miniview
You can change between the big view of the Player or the mini view
by clicking into the zoombox of the window.
• Oscilloscope/Spectrum
You can change between the oscilloscope view or the spectrum/oscilloscope
view by clicking into the oscilloscope.
• Rate / Volume sliders
You can change the rate and the volume by moving the sliders up and down.
The rate is reset everytime a new song starts playing. You can also reset the rate
or volume by clicking on the labels at the bottom of the silders.
• Preferences Dialog
- Autoplay on open : Automatically starts playing when you click
on a MPEG file (usefull when used for WWW Browers)
- Play first item of list : Starts playing the first instead of the
last song, when clicked on a list
- Remeber music list : Remebers all items when you quit the Player
- Append Lists : Lists are appended instead of overwritten
- Remember window position
- Zoom window : Toggles zooming effect for all windows
- Change file types/creators
- Report unknown file types
Send bug reports to odreer@usa.net
Check out the homepage for my MPEG tools:
http://www3.pair.com/odreer
April 1999 by Oliver Dreer
MPEG Decoder engine
Tom Dwyer
Additional programming
Eric M. Aldrich I
Christoph Schaffhauser
The Mpeg Realtime Audio Player is Freeware.
Decoder copyright 1996 to 1999 Xing Technology Corp. All rights reserved.