cdplayer(1) cdplayer(1) NAME cdplayer, cdman, cdheadphone, datplayer - play and capture audio CDs and DAT tapes SYNOPSIS cdplayer [-dev device] [-sm] [-nofork] cdman [-dev device] [-sm] [-nofork] cdheadphone [-dev device] [-sm] [-nofork] datplayer [-dev device] [-sm] [-nofork] DESCRIPTION CDplayer is a program for playing audio tapes and CDs. When called as datplayer it works as a tape player. When called as cdplayer or when the -dev cd option is specified, CDplayer works as a CD player. CDplayer CDplayer plays audio CDs that are loaded in the CD-ROM drive. The audio data is read from the CD via the SCSI bus and is played through the 16- bit audio hardware on IRIX systems. CDplayer can also capture audio data into disc files either as entire tracks or selections within a track. DATplayer DATplayer plays and captures digital audio tapes on the 4mm DAT drive. The tapes are compatible with those used in commercial DAT recorders. The audio data is read from the DAT via the SCSI bus and is played through the 16-bit audio hardware on IRIX systems. DATplayer can also capture audio data to disk files either as entire tracks or selections within a track. Recording to DAT is accomplished via the export utilities in soundtrack(1) or from the original datman(1). Please Note: DATplayer is no longer a supported application. OPTIONS -dev device specifies the particular CD-ROM or DAT device to use, for example: /dev/scsi/sc0d3l0 or /dev/mt/tps0d2nsv. In addition, with CDplayer you may specify the directory on which the drive is mounted, for example: /CDROM. -sm displays only the transport control section of the window. -nofork causes CDplayer to not fork itself into the background. OPERATION CDplayer operates like many commercial CD and DAT players but the transport controls and time displays conform to the look and behavior of other digital media apps such as moviemaker(1). Most operations are straight forward. See the on-line help for detailed information. A note about DATplayer is in order however. The first time you invoke DATplayer with a particular tape, it scans the tape to obtain the track starts and durations. You can let DATplayer complete this operation for the entire tape or abort in which case DATplayer will use the information it has. You can continue scanning via an entry in the Options menu or let DATplayer accrue the track information as you play or locate to tracks which haven't been scanned. DATplayer saves the information in a database file similar to the CDplayer database file so scanning need only be done once. MUSIC CATALOG The music catalog stores titles, artists and program information for CD and DAT tapes. When a CD or DAT is inserted in the drive, CDplayer searches the music catalog for an entry containing catalog information for that recording. If it finds one, it displays the information in its large display panel. Data from the recording's table of contents is used as the key for searching the music catalog. New information is added to the catalog simply by typing it into the appropriate fields of CDplayer's display. The catalog currently holds the title of the recording, the artist's name, and a title for each program on the recording. When looking for a catalog entry, CDplayer searches a list of directories. The default list is the single directory ~/.cddb. An alternate list can be specified by the shell environment variable CDDB_PATH, which takes as its value a string which is either a colon or comma separated list of directories. When CDplayer needs to create a new music catalog entry, it has to pick a single directory. The default directory is ~/.cddb. An alternate directory can be specified using the CDDB_PATH method above. When multiple directories are specified, CDplayer uses the last directory given in the CDDB_PATH variable to create it's new entries. X RESOURCES FILES ~/.cddb, ~/.datdb default music catalog BUGS SEE ALSO datman(1), soundtrack(1) AUTHOR Paul Wieneke Page 2