Notify Tray CD Player

Written by Mats Ljungqvist, 1996. (mats.ljungqvist@enator.se)

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History
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* This little applet was written because I was tired of the interface in
  CDPLAYER.EXE. I wanted something that was easier to control by clicking 
  the mouse on a spot on the screen. I think CDPLAYER is hard to find in the 
  tasklist if You have a number of apps running and need to pause. Pause
  is now just a double-click on the CD icon in the tray. I also though it 
  would be cool to have a fast way to get the next track, also without 
  having to find the CDPLAYER window. Yeah, the Taskbar is great, but I 
  still think it's easier to handle the basic CD commands by clicking on 
  the icon in the tray.


Features (Check WHATSNEW.TXT for added features since last version)
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* CD Player that resides in the Notify Tray area of the taskbar in Windows 95 or 
  Windows NT 4.0. 
* Features right-click menu with all common CD actions and a Tracks menu 
  including the names of all tracks on the current CD. 
* Fast "left-click on icon" operation. One click to get the next track/play, 
  two clicks to pause/resume, three clicks to get previous track. 
* Artist, title, track and time (optional) displayed in Tooltip. 
* Compatible with CDPLAYER.EXE included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. 
  Can replace CDPLAYER.EXE to feature autoplay etc. 
* Compatible with the track list used by CDPLAYER.EXE 


How to use
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* Right click on icon in tray brings up the control menu consisting of 
  the regular CD control commands, the Tracks menu, from which You can
  directly choose which track to play by looking at the track title.
* Single left click on icon skips to next track/starts playing if stopped.
* Double left click on icon pauses/resumes playing.
* Tripple left click on icon rewinds to previous track.
* CD Info is used to set the Artist name, CD title and track titles. 
  Compatible with CDPLAYER.EXE.
* Options is used to decide what time display format to use and some misc
  settings. 
* Increase poll interval in options dialog if system slows down every now
  and then. (This is mostly a problem for Windows 95 users)


Replace CDPLAYER.EXE for AutoPlay and choosing track in Explorer.
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1. Locate Your CDPLAYER.EXE.
2. Rename it to CDPLAYER.ORG.
3. Copy NTFY_CD.EXE to CDPLAYER.EXE.
4. That's it. NTFY_CD.EXE can handle the -PLAY, /PLAY and -TRACK options 
   (At least I think so, I have only tested it with a couple of CD drives)


Known bugs
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* I have experienced a weird explorer hang once, which might have been 
  caused by NTFY_CD. If You have any suggestions that might help me solve 
  this I would be grateful. I still don't know if it was a problem related
  to the NT 4.0 beta 1 (build 1234), because I have only got this problem 
  once and not on Windows 95.
* Some users have experienced problems with the pause/resume function. The 
  result is that the CD will stop instead of resume. If You encounter this
  problem. Please mail me as much info about Your CD, interface, driver and
  configuration as possible so I can look into it!


Comments, suggestions, bug-reports
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e-mail to: mats.ljungqvist@enator.se

Happy usage!