Ugly CD Player is an application that lets you play audio CDs on your Power Macintosh. It is designed to take up only a small amount of screen space, making it easy to tuck into an open area of the screen for convenient access to the playback functions.
In addition, there is a display of the current track and play time. If you click on the track area (by the "TRK:" label), a popup menu appears which allows you to quickly skip to any other track on the CD.
If you click on the time, you get a popup menu which allows you to select the time display mode. You can select between Track Elapsed Time (time from the start of the track), Track Remaining Time (remaining time in the track), Disc Elapsed Time (time from the start of the disc), and Disc Remaining Time (remaining time in the disc). The current mode is shown in the time display area as a "T+", "T-", "D+", or "D-" respectively.
Ugly CD Player allows you to edit CD track titles as well as the title of the CD. To do so,
select the "Show Disc Information" menu item from the "File" menu. You will then be allowed to edit and view track titles. This information is stored in the same file that is used by "AppleCD Audio Player" (which comes with MacOS). This means that any titles you have entered using Apple's CD player, are automatically accessible to (and changeable by) Ugly CD Player.
System Requirements:
PowerMac
CD-ROM drive
System 7.5.3 or higher.
Registration:
Ugly CD Player is shareware. If you like this product please register by paying the requested US$15 single-user registration fee. You may pay by using the registration application included in the Ugly CD Player package, or by purchasing online via the Buzzard Software web site (http://www.buzzardsoft.com). If you are not registered, a window will occasionally open which will cover the CD controls. If you register, you will be sent a registration number which will stop this window from being opened, leaving you with continuous access to the CD controls.
To use the registration program provided in the Ugly CD Player package, first find and launch the application called "Register" in the same folder as Ugly CD Player. Enter your name, e-mail address, and the number of licenses you would like to purchase. Once you have filled in all your information, you can then save, copy, or print the data in order to send it to Kagi. Kagi handles my payment processing.
If you are paying via First Virtual or Credit card, you can e-mail or fax your purchase information to Kagi. To e-mail your purchase, send a message to sales@kagi.com containing the data you copied or saved from the Register program. You can also fax the same information (printed to a fax modem, for instance) to Kagi at +1-510-652-6589.
If you are paying with cash or check, print out the data from the Register program and mail it to:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-QTA
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
Kagi accepts cash from a wide variety of different countries, but if you pay by check, it must be drawn in US dollars.
Any questions about the payment process can be sent to sales@buzzardsoft.com.
Please support future Buzzard Software products by paying the requested fee. Thank you.
Troubleshooting:
If you run into problems with Ugly CD Player, first close down all open applications, restart your machine, and try again. If that fails, make sure that your CD-ROM drive is working and that it supports audio CD playback.
If Ugly CD Player seems to think that your CD is playing, but there is no sound, go to the "Monitors & Sound" control panel. Then make sure that your speaker volume is turned up. Also make sure that your sound input source is activated and set to the CD-ROM drive (rather than the microphone).
If you are unfamiliar with how to use audio CDs or the "Monitors & Sound" control panel on your Macintosh, refer to the manual(s) that came with your computer.
When you launch Ugly CD Player you may receive a message that says that you cannot edit or view CD track information. If this is the case, the CD track information file may be open by another application, most likely "AppleCD Audio Player" which came with your system. If this is the case, quit the offending application and relaunch Ugly CD Player. The problem should then go away. If it doesn't, restart your system and try again. If you still receive this message, please contact technical support (see below).
You may experience audio playback problems with multi-format CDs, that is CDs with not only an audio portion but a data portion as well. At this time, there is no workaround for this problem.
If you continue to have problems, please e-mail technical support (see below).
Contact information:
For the latest products, product updates, online purchasing, and other information, please visit Buzzard Software's web site at http://www.buzzardsoft.com.
For technical support send e-mail to support@buzzardsoft.com. Please be sure to include as much information as you can about your system.
If you find a bug, please report it. Send your bug reports to bugs@buzzardsoft.com. As with technical support, please include as much information about your system as you can. Also include as much information about the bug as possible including what the bug is (e.g. crash) and how you can reproduce it.
Yes, you may even make feature requests!!! Please send feature requests to features@buzzardsoft.com.
Misc:
The Ugly CD Player software is provided in "as-is" condition, with no warranty of any kind. While it has been thoroughly tested, data loss is possible - so use at your own risk.
You may not modify the Ugly CD Player application in any way, including changing the copyright information or the about box.
You may not redistribute Ugly CD Player for a fee without the prior written consent of Buzzard Software. This includes distribution on shareware compilation CDs. Please e-mail buzzard@buzzardsoft.com if you need to obtain written consent for such redistribution.
Free distribution of the software package is permitted without consent as long as the package remains "intact" with no modifications from the original version provided by Buzzard Software.
