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- This documents how to get you up, running and using FreeAmp. It also
- explains a bit about where we are coming from.
-
- FreeAmp Win32 1.0.0 (11-9-98) Usage:
- This is the new FreeAmp UI. It is simple, clean and works well.
- The usage is as follows:
-
- * dragging a file (or files) onto the Player sets the playlist.
- If the player is currently playing, it will stop.
- * move between files in the playlist using the |< and >| buttons
- * pause/play again by pressing the > button
- * stop by pressing the [] buton
- * adjust the volume by clicking-and-dragging on the dial to the left of the display
- * seek in the current file by clicking-and-dragging on the dial to the right of the
- display. This is a 'jog' mechanism in that the dial adjusts the rate of change of
- the seeking (move it a little bit vertically, and the position of the song increments
- slowly. move it a lot vertically, and the position of the song increments quickly.)
- let up the mouse button to move to the selected point in the song.
- * clicking on the display cycles through total time, current time and time remaining.
- * Of the six buttons to the right of the display, the upper left is
- disabled (in the future will switch between modes)
- * the upper middle minimizes the player
- * the upper right quits the player
- * the lower left cycles through Repeat Mode in the following order:
- Repeat Current Song, Repeat Playlist, Repeat off.
- * the lower middle toggles 'Shuffle' mode.
- * the lower right presents the 'Open File' dialog. The files
- selected here will replace the playlist in the same fashion as drag-n-drop
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- See the document INSTALL
-
- USAGE (Unix):
-
- freeamp [options] [file 1] [file 2]...
-
- When freeamp loads, it scans for a directory 'plugins' in the path pointed to by
- the environment variable FREEAMP_PATH. If FREEAMP_PATH is not set,
- the default path is searched: .:~/.freeamp:$(libdir)/freeamp where
- $(libdir) is the libdir directory set by 'configure' when freeamp
- was built. This is usually /usr/local/lib.
-
- (As a side note, the ~ (of course) means your home directory. We grab this information
- from the environment variable $HOME, rather than parse
- /etc/passwd). We plan to parse /etc/password later, but for now...)
-
-
- USAGE (Windows):
-
- freeamp [options] [file 1] [file 2]...
-
-
- ABOUT FreeAmp:
-
- FreeAmp is an Open Source effort to build the best digital audio
- player available. In the interest of supporting the free software
- community, while at the same time fostering the growth of the online
- delivery of music, GoodNoise Corporation, The Internet Record Company,
- is funding both the freeamp.org domain and the efforts of three
- developers: Mark B. Elrod, Brett Thomas, and Jason Woodward.
-
- FreeAmp is being released under the GPL (www.gnu.org). As is provided
- by the GPL, all our (GoodNoise's) and your efforts toward FreeAmp will
- be released back to the community at large.
-
- The current development and release versions of FreeAmp can be found
- at http://www.freeamp.org.
-
- To join a low volume mailing list which will announce updates to the
- release software, send mail to freeamp-announce-request@freeamp.org
- with the body: subscribe
-
- To join a mailing list actively discussing the ongoing development of
- FreeAmp, send mail to freeamp-dev-request@freeamp.org with the body:
- subscribe
-
- To make feature suggestions, send mail to freeamp-features@freeamp.org, or,
- better yet, if you are able, add the feature yourself and send us the
- updates!
-
-