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3. Running the program.

We assume you have read above and know how to run CdMio on your system. As you do it for the very first time, a window named "cdmio..." and a tiny window called "Tiny Vu-Meter" should pop-up. The first one is the main window : with it you can control any feature of CdMio. The second one is a "Applet" (more on this later). If you can't see these two windows AND your monitor isn't turned off (...), read any error message and consider turning off applets (read below). You can contact the authors, describing the problem and the error messages, but please DO NOT POST CORE dumps !

3.1 Standard controls and more.

CdMio is a CD-Player, so it has a couple of controls you should be used to. Anyway, here is a short list of these standard controls (they are performed by pressing the appropriate button around the large display) :

. As of version 0.03, you must have a (audio or data) Cd inside your Cd-Rom reader in order to start CdMio. Track selection can be performed by clicking one of the numbers listed on the display : the list will show up only if a valid audio Cd is in your reader. You can set Cd master volume and left-right balancing with the "<<" and ">>" arrows near "Volume", "Left" and "Right" labels. It seems that some Cd-Player doesn't support some of these features : you can run your preferred mixer and act on your sound card controls. The time is shown on upper-left corner of the display : by clicking on it you can cycle between elapsed and remaining time for the current track (these two modes are labelled "E" and "R" on display). You can choose three different play-modes :

3.2 Applets.

Applets are simple graphical effects providing you some kind of "information" about the track you are playing. As of version 0.3 there are three "major" applets with slightly different flavours, making up eight different applets :

  1. "Flint" mode 1 : stereo Vu-Meter. Works by detecting peak value of the signal.
  2. "Flint" mode 2 : as above, except it evaluates RMS value.
  3. "Raist" mode 1 : displays the waveform of the signal.
  4. "Raist" mode 2 : as above, with a sort of "glittering" effect.
  5. "Fistandantilus" mode 1 : performs spectral analysis of signal.
  6. "Fistandantilus" mode 2 : as above, with glittering effect.
  7. "Raist" mode 3 : as mode 1, only "dotted".
  8. "Raist" mode 4 : as mode 2, only "dotted".

At your first startup, you should see the applet # 1. You can cycle through the eight applets by pressing the "A" button. If you close the applet window, pressing the "A" button will start cycling from applet # 1. Applets are configurable (well... up to a certain extent !) : you can press the "><" button to show the configuration panel. Here's a brief description of options :

3.3 Options panel.

Currently, this panel is only used for the applets. In future versions it is very likely to be false : check out !

3.4 Rc file - startup options.

You can customize CdMio behaviour by using the main display and the "options" panel. Anyway, as you find a combination of options you like most, you can set up CdMio to use these ones every time it is run. This is done by editing a file called ".cdmiorc". It is created automagically the first time you run CdMio and should look like this :


samlenvu=16
samlenwa=512
fpsvu=30
fpswa=30
preamp=0.15
redt=10.0
applets=1
warmup=1
volume=25000
left=100
right=100
startapp=1
swap=0

 

. As you've probably understood, these are simply the values of some parameters and "logical variables" that control the behaviour of the program. Before describing the various entries of this file, a word of warning about the syntax : each line must carry only one option, and each line must be terminated by a carriage return, otherwise the funniest things could happen (most probably some options could not be recognized). The order of the options is immaterial. Ok, here's the options :

3.5 Database.

Currently is not supported (we'll work on it !), it's the "db" button.


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