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Help Button

Quick help:
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On-line help is available for all Xmcd pushbuttons,
controls, indicators, text entry areas, and selection
lists.  To obtain help, position your pointer cursor
over any Xmcd feature, and click the pointer button 3.
A pop-up help window will appear containing help text
pertaining to the item.
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The following is an overview of some of the general
features and capabilities of Xmcd:

Xmcd is an application for the X Window System,
developed using the OSF/Motif toolkit.  It is a player
of digital audio compact discs utilizing the CD-ROM
drives connected to your computer.  The audio
line-output on your CD-ROM drive can be connected
directly to an external amplifier and speakers, or to
a sound board with a built-in mixer and amplifier.
Many CD-ROM drives also have a headphone jack and
volume control on the front panel.

Xmcd does not control a sound board, thus the mixer on
a sound board must be operated via a separate
application.

Xmcd is a full-featured CD audio utility, offering
virtually every feature that is found on standalone
"real" component stereo CD players, plus many others
not easily implementable (or usable) on such a player.
The following is a list of features supported by Xmcd:

- Standard audio functions: Stop, Play, Pause, Previous
   Track, Next Track, Previous Index, Next Index,
   Rewind and Fast forward searching with audio sample,
   Eject and On/off.
- Direct track access keypad and track-warp slider
   controls.
- Volume control with selectable taper characteristics.
- Balance control.
- Channel routing control: Select between normal stereo,
   reversed stereo, mono-L, mono-R, or mono-L+R.
- Track/Index/Time display: Selectable to display elapsed
   time, remaining track time, or remaining disc time.
- Status display: for current play status, A->B mode,
   program mode, CD database.
- Shuffle (random) play function.
- Repeat function with iteration counter.
- Sample function: Play a few seconds of each track.
- A->B function: Repeat from selectable point A and B.
- Eject inhibit function: To prevent someone from ejecting
   the disc by pressing the button on the drive.
- Automation options on CD load, eject, play completion
   and program exit.
- Track Program function: Play tracks in custom order.
- CD database function: Allows you to store CD title/track
   titles in database, and associate each disc with a
   play program.  Displays the current playing disc title/
   track information.  In addition, you can enter and display
   arbitrary text associated with the disc or each track,
   such as band information, lyrics, etc.
- Remote CD database: Query CD entries on a remote
   network server.  The server can be on the Internet or
   other TCP/IP networks.
- CD database entry send: Contribute CD database entries
   to a central archive via Internet electronic mail.
- Main window button face labels can be configured to
   display pictorial symbols, or text with hotkey
   mnemonics.
- The complete application can be operated via the
   keyboard with full support for keyboard traversal and
   hotkeys.
- All labels and messages can be customized to non-
   English languages via X resources in the .Xdefaults
   file.
- All colors and many other functionality are user-
   customizable using X resource settings.
- On-line help information.
- Device-specific configuration files to make xmcd
   adaptable to various brands of CD-ROM drives.


Xmcd undergoes continuous development and is being
ported to new operating system environments.  Your
suggestions are appreciated.  Please e-mail all feedback
to the author at the following Internet e-mail address:

   ti@amb.org
