AudioPhile  -  Advanced Audio CD Player

by Alan Wrigley

AudioPhile is an application which enables you to play audio CDs on your CD drive with all the facilities of a conventional hi-fi CD player. It is even designed to look like one!

Most computer CD drives can output audio from standard audio CDs with a quality as good as many hi-fi CD players. Acorn provides an application called CDPlayer to go with CDFS, but some of its facilities are limited and it doesn't really look the part.

AudioPhile provides all the functionality of a CD player from a simulated front panel. There are buttons for Play, Stop, Pause, Skip track, Program and Eject. Track numbers on the CD are listed (up to 20), as well as programmed track numbers when a sequence is programmed. A large time display shows the total playing time (or total programmed playing time when in program mode), or the elapsed time of the current track when playing. The track currently playing is highlighted.

The version of AudioPhile on this disc is a cut-down (but fully functional) version of a commercial package due to be released shortly. Among the enhancements of the full version will be fast forward/reverse search facilities, and the ability to display time in a number of formats while playing (total elapsed, current track elapsed, total remaining, current track remaining); it will have a small 'remote control' window which gives you access to all the facilities without needing the main window open; it can store details of any CD including title and track names, which are then displayed when that CD is inserted; and furthermore it can remember your favourite program sequence for any CD.

A more detailed description together with instructions on using the program can be found in the !Help file inside the application.

Copyright  Rheingold Enterprises 1995
