CD Professional
From
Southwest Software Associates
Copyright ©  1994, All Rights Reserved



REGISTRATION
This software is distributed as "Shareware".  As such, you are free to use it to
determine if it meets your needs before you are required to pay for it.  You are
free to evaluate this software for a 15 day period.  If, after that time, you
determine that you wish to continue to use it, you are required to register your
copy for a fee of $10.

To register, send a check or money order made payable to: Don Fordham.
Mail, along with your name, address and telephone number to:

Southwest Software Associates
6888 Granero Drive
El Paso, Texas
79912

Feel free to distribute this program provided that you include all files without
modification including this readme file.  Above all, ENJOY IT!

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

CD Professional is designed to play Audio CD's through your computer's CD
Player and sound card.  It provides the appearance of a rack mounted piece of
audio equipment along with the functionality of the controls normally found on
audio CD players.

CD Professional also provides database functions for your CD collection.  It
allows you to store the Name, Artist and Track Contents for each CD.  Once the
data has been entered for any CD, CD Professional will automatically recognize
it each time it is inserted into the CD Drive.  The database feature allows you to
browse through your collection either by Artist or by Title and, optionally,
attaches 80 pixel by 80 pixel bitmaps to its display.

CD Professional is distributed as SHAREWARE.  You are authorized to use it for
a reasonable period of time to determine its suitability, after which you must
register it and pay the nominal fee of $10.  Registration will assure continued
support of the program and notification of future
upgrades.

PROGRAM INSTALLATION
The program is distributed along with an "install" program.  The install program
will prompt you for an install directory into which it will place all required files to
run CD Professional.  It is recommended that you accept the default directory
suggested during the install process.  Install will also automatically create a
"cd.ini" file in your Windows directory.  This file will contain the program options
you select as well as the database information you enter for your CD Catalog.
Protect and backup the cd.ini file as you would any other database information in
your computer.

To run CD Professional's install program, use Windows' Program Manager;
select FILE | Run from Program Manager's menu and enter the path where the
downloaded CD Professional files are currently located along with the file name
INSTALL.EXE.  The install program will place all required files into a directory
(the default is C:\CDPRO) and will create CD.INI in your Windows directory.
The install program will then create a CD Professional Program Group and insert
two icons, one for CD Professional and one for a Windows Write version of this
program.

Once the install program has created its own directory and program group and
you has tested to assure the program runs correctly, you may delete all the CD
Professional files in your download directory.

ON LINE HELP
There is extensive on line help available within the program.  It is suggested that
you select the QUICK START option in the HELP MENU to get started as quickly
as possible.

SAMPLE CATALOG AND BITMAPS
CD Professional is distributed along with sample catalog entries and bitmaps.
These will appear on the Browse by Artist and Browse by Title dialog boxes.
This information is distributed to demonstrate the bitmap capability of CD
Professional's database.  These entries can be easily deleted through the Delete
function of the browse dialogs.

In order to use your own bitmaps with you CD catalog, they must be in .BMP
format at a size of approximately 80pixels by 80pixels.  Any larger and they will
be cropped; any smaller and they will have a white border on one side.  Scanned
images with 256 colors work best.

You will notice that for any image without a bitmap, CD Professional defaults to
display the Southwest Software Associates logo.  Use care not to delete this
bitmap from your CD Professional directory or an error message will occur each
time a browse operation is attempted.  The default bitmap can be replaced
simply by renaming an 80 by 80 pixel bitmap file of your choice to "SSA.BMP"
and placing it in the CD Professional directory.

UPGRADES
Comments and recommendations for future upgrades are welcomed from
registered users.  Send your comments to the same address as the registration
address above.



ENJOY THE PROGRAM!

Don Fordham
Southwest Software Associates