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- PLAYER : A utility for playing ROL music files under Windows 3.0
- (C) 1991 Monty Schmidt, David Giller
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- Player allows you to queue multiple songs for playing through your Adlib
- Music card of your Creative Labs Soundblaster card under Windows 3.0.
- Player plays standard ROL music files in the background so that you may play
- music in the background while continuing to use Windows 3.0 programs.
- ROL files are files in a format created by Adlib Inc. for storing song
- information. These files may be found on various online services such as
- GEnie and Compuserve and are available on many of the music support BBS's
- around the world. We have included a number of ROL files with this set of
- files so that you may get started playing music right from the start.
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- PLAYER Instructions:
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- File Menu-
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- Open Instrument Bank File.
- This option allows you to specify a new Adlib Instrument Bank file (.BNK).
- Each bank file holds the names of instruments and the corresponding parameters
- needed to create the timbre of that instrument. When playing a ROL file the
- ROL file contains the names of instruments needed and these must be found in a
- corresponding BNK file. This cuts down on the size of ROL files by removing
- the need for timbre data in the file. Timbre is what defines the way a certain
- instrument sounds. We have include a set of instruments in the file BNK835.BNK
- which holds most of the instruments needed for almost all the ROL files we have
- seen.
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- FM Sound Driver Version.
- This option will tell you what the version is of the current FM driver installed
- in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
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- Controls-
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- Pause/Continue.
- Clicking on the Pause control will cancel the current song playing, and halt
- the playing of the rest songs in the queue until the Continue button is clicked.
- The Pause button changes to Continue when clicked.
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- Next Song.
- The Next Song button ends the song that is currently playing, and begins the
- next queued song.
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- Queueing Songs.
- To add a song to the play queue you may either double click on a song in the
- file list box or select the song in the file list box and then click the Queue
- button. You may also type the path and name of the ROL file you wish to play
- in the edit box named "Song To Queue". The song will be added before the
- current song highlighted in the Queue list box. If you wish to add to the end
- of the list simply highlight the word "End" in the list box. If you wish to
- remove a song from the queue merely select it in the "Songs Queued for Playing"
- list box and then click on "UnQueue".
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