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XCd - An X11 CD Player
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri May 19 22:54:34 1995
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 07:53:20 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
Subject: XCd - An X11 CD Player
From: Sean Vyain <svyain@hns.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: X11, CD, music, play, sound
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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XCd beta - An X11 CD Player
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FEATURES:
* Eject, Stop, Pause, Play, Previos Track, Next Track, Cue, Review
* Play modes - Normal, Shuffle, Program, Intro
* Database of CD titles, artists, and track names.
* Doesn't use Motif!
LOCATIONS:
http://access.digex.net/~vyainsm/xcd/xcd.html
* Source for XCd
* Linux 1.2.x binary, statically linked with XForms
* Docs and screen shots of XCd (hope you like the Talking Heads ;)
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/vyainsm
* Source for XCd
* Linux 1.2.x binary, statically linked with XForms
DESCRIPTION:
XCd is an X11 CD player that provides all the "normal" features of a real
audio CD player. In addition, it keeps a database of CD titles, artists,
and track names, and can identify a disc from this database when the
disc is placed in the CD drive. XCd has a nice 3-D look that comes from
the XForms library (http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms). The XForms
library is free for non-commercial use and much smaller than Motif. So,
a binary that is statically linked with the XForms library is much smaller
than say Xmcd.
XCd is also very easy to use. Each of the configurable features of XCd
can be set using the Preferences popup. Adding a CD to the database is
as simple as putting the disc in the drive, and entering the information.
To program a few tracks for playing is easy with the Program popup and
a few mouse clicks.
Please send any comments/suggestions about the look, feel, and behavior
of XCd to the address below. I would like to get some feedback, so that
I can improve XCd.
I do not have access to a wide variety of machines, so I need help porting
XCd to other platforms. The XForms library is available for most (if not
all) major platforms, and XCd requires Sun-style ioctl()'s to control the
CDROM drive. If you have ported XCd to a new platform, please send me
email. If you would like to port XCd to another platform you can contact
me for help. I should be able to provide enough suggestions to get you
going.
Sean Vyain
vyainsm@access.digex.net
svyain@hns.com
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