
This is an excerpt from the main AMPlay documentation (v2.03).

* 4.7 Actions:
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* 4.7.1 Events:
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Treat unmarked text files as:

This determines what happens to text files that have no marker. (see
the section on file formats for more details on this).

Always play on startup:

This determines whether AMPlay should effectively click play once
startup is complete. Note that if AMPlay was playing when it was shut
down, it always starts playing on startup. This option determines
whether it should start playing on startup even if it was stopped on
shutdown.

Force current track on startup:

When AMPlay starts, if it should start playing a track (either because
it was playing one on shutdown, or because the above option is set),
but AMPlayer is already playing a track, this option determines whether
to override what AMPlayer is already doing.

Play newly added tracks:

This determines whether newly added tracks should start playing
straight away.

Queue newly added tracks:

If set, newly added tracks are queued, but not played straight away.

Sort after tracks are added:

This sets whether a sort automatically takes place following track
addition.

Stop playing when the player quits.

If unset, AMPlay will let AMPlayer continue playing the MP3 when AMPlay
quits.

Kill the AMPlayer module when the player quits.

This unloads AMPlayer when AMPlay closes. This is only available if
stop playing when the player quits is set.


4.7.2 Sorting/Boundary checking:
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These options also apply to both the sort process and the boundary
check process that determines where one album ends and the next starts.

- Sort by Name or Sort Raw

  This determines whether the sort is by the name information that
  AMPlay is using for each item (which may be based on the pathname, for
  some of the tracks at least), or by the raw path to file itself. If
  all the files in the database come from the same filesystem
  heirarchy, then these options may be equivalent in terms of the
  resulting sorted order.

  There is one possible useful side effect from Raw sort though - if
  you have a filesystem heirarchy with genre directories above the
  Artist directories, then a raw sort will give you a list with the
  Artists grouped by Genre but alphabetical within that. There is an
  option in the menus page that allows a divider to be inserted into
  the menus at such genre boundaries.

- Case sensitive, or not.

  A case sensitive sort is faster, but means that all the artists
  starting with upper case letters will end up sorted above those
  starting with lower case ones. If your naming system is consistent
  with regard to case, you can probably use case sensitive searching to
  achieve the same resulting order, faster.

- Space sensitive, or not.

  Space sensitive is also faster. If turned off, then before comparing
  two items, all spaces are stripped from them. This means that any
  trailing spaces or hard spaces within the string won't cause any
  sorting oddities or spurious album boundaries, but does have the
  slight risk of two genuinely different albums/artists being
  considered the same. (e.g. 'An Artist' would be considered identical
  to 'A Nartist')

- Ignore leading 'The ' or not.

  This causes any leading 'the ' to be stripped from the artist name
  for the purposes of sorting, and for boundary checking. i.e. "The
  Offspring" will be treated as being identical to "Offspring", and both
  will be sorted under "O".

  Currently, ignore 'the ' only applies to the artist name.

  It also only applies when sorting by name. When performing a raw
  sort, it isn't straightforward to remove a leading 'the ' from the
  artist name (indeed, it may not be present, if the naming information
  is based on the tag, or has been editted).

In the case of "The Offspring" and "Offspring", albums by both of these
will appear under a single artist entry. However, whether that artist
entry is shown with the leading "the" in the menus and on the main
window will vary. What is shown is the artist attribute of the first
track in the artist. So, which one you see will depend on which album
is alphabetically first within the artist, and what artist name its
tracks have.

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Copyright  2008 Mike Sandells, mike@mikejs.com
Last Modified: 30.05.2008