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- What is this ?
- --------------
-
- This is a Audio-CD player program for the Amiga. It was designed to work
- with the Archos Overdrive CD-Rom that has been very popular on the A1200
- but it should work on other drives aswell.
-
-
- Credits
- -------
-
- Credits for this brilliant Audio CD-Player are as follows:
-
-
-
- Code....................Stian Olsen
- Design..................Espen Skog
- Ideas+Improvements......Stian Olsen & Espen Skog
- Bug-testing.............Espen Skog & Stian Olsen
- This document...........Espen Skog & Stian Olsen
-
-
- We wanna say hi to the following persons:
-
- Guido Gouweloos, Inge Kuppen, Marcel Bovern, Øyvind Jergan,
- Dan Cannon, Kajetan Hinner, Snorre Narum, Thomas Hansen,
- Bill Gates (?) and all users at SilverHawk BBS!
-
-
-
-
- Why did we make this ?
- ----------------------
-
- When I first got my Overdrive CD-Rom I looked at the CDDA player that
- Archos made and I thought it was horrible. Therefor we decided to make
- a new player based on the Gadtools.library from Commodore. This gave
- the player a much better look and it doesn't open a whole new screen
- like the one Archos made does, therefor it is very handy to have in
- the back of the workbench window. We also thought that the Archos
- player lacked quite a few features, plus that it bugged alot.
-
-
-
- Contact us for suggestions and/or bug-reports:
- ----------------------------------------------
-
- Stian André Olsen Espen Skog
- Orrelia 2 Heer Allé 8
- N-1440 Drøbak 1445 HEER
- Norway Norway
-
- Email: stianol@ifi.uio.no Email: Espen@OsloHd.no
-
-
- Also try our BBS: SilverHawk BBS at +47-64934100/80 (14k4) Amiga+C64
-
-
-
- IMPORTANT
- ---------
-
- This is a Beat version of the CD-Player, and some buttons are ghosted
- because they are not yet finished! They will probably be working in the
- next version, but that depends on the response we get on this player!
-
-
-
- System requirements
- -------------------
-
- o Amiga with kick 3.0 or higher (sorry, a 2.0 version will come soon)
- o Overdrive CD-Rom or compatible
- o This program :)
-
- Well, I guess that's all there is to say.
-
-
-
-
- Legal information
- -----------------
-
- CD-Player V1.0ß software and documentations are copyrighted 1995 by
- Stian André Olsen and Espen Skog. All rights reserved.
-
- We take no responsibility for any damage that may appear after using
- this program. The software is provided "as is" and we reserve the right
- to update the software and documentation without notice.
-
-
- Distribution
- ------------
-
- The CD-Player is NOT Public Domain, but you may spread it as you
- like. The CD-Player may be put on non-profit PD archives like
- Fred-Fish, AmiNet etc, but we would like you to contact us if
- you do wish to include it in your compilation!
- This program package must only be spread with its full contents.
-
- CD-Player............................... The main program
- CD-Player.info.......................... Icon for CD-Player
- CD-Player.doc........................... This document
-
-
- ==============================================================
- Documentation of the control-panel in CD-Player
- ==============================================================
-
- If you are having trouble understanding all the features our
- player offers, please read the button-specification to fully
- understand how to control you cd-rom.
-
-
-
- « Search, Search »
- ------------------
-
- This function is used to fastforward the cd. Search is used when you
- want to skip to a part of the track. If you don't like the beginning
- of a track, you simply search thru the track until you come to the
- part you like. Search-speed is about 5 times faster than normal play-
- time.
-
- Preview
- -------
-
- The preview-function is quite handy when you shall browse thry all
- the tracks on the CD. When pressing the Preview button, the player
- will start from the beginning and play 10 seconds of each track
- until it reaches the last track. To disable this function, just press
- Stop.
-
-
- << Skip, Skip >> (n/a)
- ----------------
-
- Skip let's you skip back and forth to chose one special track to play.
- If the player is in 'stop' mode and you press skip in either direction,
- the player won't start playing before you press play. This gives you the
- possibility to skip to a special track and start playing it whenever
- you want.
-
-
- Eject CD
- --------
-
- This button will open the cd-door, or close it if the door is open.
- The door is toggled when button is pressed.
-
-
- Pause
- -----
-
- Just like a normal cd-player, this pauses the CD. By pressing the button
- again, the CD will continue where it was paused.
-
-
- Stop
- ----
-
- Stop will cause the CD to stop play. Stop will also cancel the Preview
- mode and Pause if selected.
-
-
- Play
- ----
-
- When pressed, the cd-player will start playing the actual track. If no
- track is specified, it will start playing the first audio-track on the CD.
- If the cd-door is open when play is pressed, it will close automatically.
-
-
- Check CD
- --------
-
- This button is actually not intended for use, but if you should encounter
- problems like it won't play, playing wrong track etc, then try pressing
- this button! It does the same as when a CD is inserted.
-
- Loop functions
- --------------
-
- There are three different loop-modes. These are as follows:
-
-
- No Loop : will inactivate all kinds of looping of tracks/cd's.
-
- Loop : will loop actual track. When the end of the track has
- been reached, it will skip back to the track and play it over
- again.
-
- Loop CD : starts playing the CD all over again when the end has been
- reached.
-
-
- * Loop is not available in Preview mode.
-
-
- Track Slider
- ------------
-
- One can very fast select a track by moving the slider to the desired track.
- For instance, if you want to skip from track 3 to track 56, it would require
- you to press Skip 53 times, but by using the slider, this is easily done by
- just moving it to the position. The track-number is also shown at the right
- most side of the slider, so there is easy to keep control of which track
- you're on.
-
-
- Counter
- -------
-
- The counter displays the elapsed time of the track/cd.
-
- 00:00:00
- | | |___: Seconds 0-59
- | |______: Minutes 1-59
- |_________: Hours 0-99
-
-
- Time-toggler
- ------------
-
- We added the availability to show the elapsed time of a track, of the whole
- CD and time left of the track and the CD. By togling the button, the
- counter will change according to the mode selected. These modes are:
-
- - Show elapsed track-time
- - Show time left of track
- - Show elapsed CD time
- - Show time left on CD
-
-
-
- Status window
- -------------
-
- The window at the bottom of the player shows the status of the player.
- It will echo the different states you set the player, and you can then
- see what the player is doing even when your volume is turned down.
-
- Known bug: When you press Play while the CD-door is open, the status
- will display CD-Stopped for a short time. Pay no attention to this ;)
-
-
- Random
- ------
-
- By switching on the Random-checkbox the player will choose tracks randomly
- when in Play-mode. Press the checkbox again to turn off random-mode.
-
-
- Artists (n/a)
- -------------
-
- This is a future enhancement of the artist-information window in the
- player. There will be possible to open another window that contain
- more info about the CD and the tracks.
-
-
- Program (n/a)
- -------------
-
- Being able to make programs so that one can choose the tunes one like
- is very common on most of todays CD players. This is not possible in this
- version of the CD-Player but will be made in another version. When it is
- ready, it will be able to make specific programs for one specific CD and
- to save in the CD info-file that is made when pressing the SAVE ARTIST-LIST,
- so that next time you insert the CD, the CD-Player knows what tunes you like
- most. This will of course be optional.
-
-
- Special features (n/a)
- ----------------------
-
- We've added a special feature that recognises the CD and automatically
- show the name of the group and the track-name. But the user has to write
- the name of each track and then save a data-file by pressing the
- SAVE ARTIST-LIST button. Everything is done automatically, and all you have
- to do is to fill out the strings for each track and press the save button
- when all tracks are ready. Next time you insert this CD the player will
- automatically read the right data from the data-file and then show
- the name of the track plus the name of the group/artist whenever you choose
- to skip track. The datafile is stored in S: with the name CDPlayer.Data
-
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- Version 1.0ß: First release, but has been under development and
- (25/2/95) bugtesting for quite some time. Project first
- started when trying to control cd.device. This
- turned out to be working, and we made a GUI.
- Changed GUI about 3-4 times before we made the
- one you see in this version. GUI will probably
- change throughout future versions. Program-mode was
- designed, but not implemented in this version due
- to lack of time. Released 'cos of lack of
- interest to continue....bye
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Known bugs
- ----------
-
- Timer-Bug: There may be some errors in the timer when it's stressed alot.
- For instance, if you search back and forth and pause alot it may
- show +-1 second from the original time. Since this is such a small
- problem, we decided not to do anymore about this second. If, for
- some reason, we find out that a 100% correct timer is needed, we
- will try to fix it. But in the meantime, this will do.
-
-
- Final Note
- ----------
-
- If you encounter a bug, you like the CD-Player, you don't like the CD-Player,
- use it frequently or have anything else to say about it, then either mail
- us, or call our support BBS, SilverHawk BBS (where Stian Olsen actually
- is the Sysop, and Espen Skog is CoSysop :) ).
- Future development will heavily depend on your response. We know that
- there is a great need for a CD-Player for the Archos drive, so we hope
- you like and support this program.
-
- We have not tested this player either on a CD32 or a SCSI CD-ROM, but
- if you've got one, please test this program and mail us about the result.
-
- BTW: Could someone design a nice icon for the CD-Player (both MagicWB and
- normal WB). You will be credited :)
-
-