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abcd20.zip  ------  A-B-CD: Super CD-ROM player and database 16bit & 32bit


Note to ftp keeper: 
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This file replaces the follwoing file in the sounds directory:

abcd14.zip  940809  A-B-CD v1.4 multimedia CD-ROM player and database


Other information:
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A-B-CD is a super CD player and database for Windows. It shares the
look and feel of The Juker, and many of its merits (e.g.  great for
listening to CDs in the background, since, like The Juker, it is quite
unobtrusive and consumes virtually no CPU time). If you enter the CD
and song titles, they are automatically remembered each time you use
that CD again. You can even rearrange song order or remove unwanted
songs from the album! It automatically recognizes CDs and plays them
as you insert them, you don't don't even have to tell the program
anything. Both 16bit (for Windows 3.x) and 32bit (for Windows NT and
Windows 95) versions are in the package.


Changes from previous version:
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Version 2.0
 
* The program now shows only the album title in the window caption
  bar, and only the song name in the icon caption. Both are displayed
  in the status bar. 
* The album database can now be maintained easily by the new Database
  menu item, and entire albums can be deleted easily from the database
  there. 
* Album title can be longer, 50 characters long (up from 30).
* Track titles are now virtually unlimited in length.
* New album is now called Untitled, instead of Default.
* Fixed the load album routine. Now the current album is closed before
  attempting to open a new one. 
* Open Album now saves the current one before loading another one (or
  reloading the current one), if Auto Save is enabled. 
* A warning is now issued if opening the album fails when the user
  selects the Open Album menu. 
* Choosing Open Album now overrides the Ignore 1-Track CDs option.
* New: Shuffle Album (different than Random Play) -- shuffles the
  album songs once. 
* The program now is more courteous to other applications while
  performing time-consuming tasks, although opening albums would now
  take slightly more real time. 
* The song counter is now incremented while loading the album, to give
  visual feedback. 
* Many pieces of information are displayed in the new status bar.
* New, cooler buttons that reflect the Pause, ..etc. status (e.g.
  depressed means paused). 
* New Maintain Album menu. Gathers other relevant menu items under it.
* The buttons and the status bar can be removed, and the location of
  the buttons can be changed. 
* Reorganized the Options menu into logical submenus.
* The main menu can now be removed. Use the system menu to restore it.
* Time counter can now show time left (decreasing) instead of time
  elapsed (increasing). 
* Dialogs are no longer centered on the main window, but offset a
  little bit. Look nicer this way. 
* Dialog fonts are now normal, not bold 
* New, better-looking About dialog.
* Symbol and digital fonts no longer appear in the Change Font dialog.
* Added a very informative tutorial to the help file -- a must-read.
  Also a tutorial button was added to the help file, and menu item in
  the program's Help menu.  
* Reorganized the Revision History section of the help file.
* The program window is now never placed off-screen on startup.
* The slider now does not start playing a song if the song is stopped,
  and is disabled in this case. It gets enabled when song play is
  commenced. 
* Cleaned up the slider position calculation code.
* Upgrade dialog is now no longer shown if an older version of the
  program was run after the current one. 
* The initialization file (INI) is now located in the program's own
  directory. 
* Cleaned up the profile saving routines.
* Better and faster treatment of stuck songs.
* Various other small changes, code cleanup, and bug fixes.
 
 
